BELTUG activities and achievements
ACTIVITIES BELTUG brings ICT professionals together. You can meet colleagues, exchange knowledge and hear the views of others. Don’t miss these invaluable opportunities! We organise a range of activities related to communications technology and services: BELTUG VIP event Our executive event, with a high-level program and keynote speakers. The place to be for networking, with about 300 business users, providers, integrators, government representatives, etc. BELTUG Member Forums Find out the latest news on communications services and BELTUG. Join about 80 other members for these events. BELTUG X-Changes Concise and to-the-point dissection of a topic, with half-hour presentations followed by discussion between the (maximum) 25 participants. A not-to-be-missed occasion to exchange ideas. BELTUG Visionaires Events designed to inspire you to look beyond the daily demands of your job. A presentation by a visionary speaker is followed by a relaxed cocktail.
BELTUG Challenges
An ideal opportunity to discuss concerns or business market topics with an ICT service provider, who will respond to challenging questions from a group of ICT decision makers. BELTUG Social Event Every September, BELTUG invites all members for a cultural day trip with your partner. In addition to these ‘live’ activities, we offer executive summaries, reports and papers on the priorities and subjects that you are concerned about, based on our annual survey carried out in June. This information can be downloaded directly from our Members’ Only section. A SELECTION OF OUR ACHIEVEMENTS BELTUG supports and represents business ICT users to government, associations and the private sector. Our many success stories show how our efforts help strengthen the position of business users of communications, here and abroad. We want our members to be the best informed ICT decision makers - More case stories on more topics
Where else can you find so many case stories about so many current and relevant topics? In the past year, BELTUG has added more than 20 case stories based on case study presentations made by members. Read more - Unique Simbox Simulator tool
BELTUG, together with Tam Tam Consulting, put together a unique Simbox Simulator tool exclusively for BELTUG members. By allowing members to compare their fixed-to-mobile costs with and without a simbox, it allows them to determine the business case for keeping or getting rid of their simboxes. Read more - Annual survey on the priorities of ICT decision makers
With our annual survey, we ensure that our members’ voice is heard, and that the right priorities are included in BELTUG’s action plan. Every year they are updated and reflected in the 10 days of job-specific courses - combining information sessions, interactive discussions and papers - offered over the year by BELTUG. - F2M Barometer fights high tariffs
The Fixed-to-Mobile Barometer brings transparency to the rates charged to users by fixed operators, following the decrease in termination rates of the fixed operators to the mobile operators. The Barometer makes it clear to what extent providers are passing on the decreased costs to the end-user. A new update is planned for 2011. Read more. - Press monitoring and clipping
The BELTUG ICT Press Monitor (paying service), compiled by Armada, provides you with a daily overview of the complete ICT news from more than 20 different national and international media. You can even have a complete copy of the articles that interest you. Read more. We want you to benefit from a liberalised market - Liberalisation of .be and .eu domain names
BELTUG is playing a major role in the DNS.be, the non-profit organisation responsible for the .bethe European Registry of Internet Domain Names. domain names. DNS.be is als on of the founders of EURid, In November 2010, there are more than 1,000,000 .be names and 3,330,000 .eu names registered. Read more. - International lobbying via INTUG
As a leading member of the International Telecoms Users Group, BELTUG participates in lobbying and developing common user positions internationally, and especially towards the European Commission. Thanks to BELTUG’s initiative, national user groups can exchange views and positions at INTUG meetings. Read more. In earlier days - Amendment of the law on electronic COMMUNICATION
BELTUG submitted an amendment for the telecoms legislation to restrict the definition of “operator.” Thanks to the acceptance of this amendment, organisations such as banks, government departments, hospitals, etc are not classified as “operators” and are not subject to the same duties and restrictions. Read more. - BELTUG coordinated telecoms Business Continuity survey for banks
BELTUG was asked by the four major banks in Belgium, plus Euroclear, to carry out a provider survey on Business Continuity. The final documentation provided by BELTUG exceeded even the expectations of the Committee for Financial Stability. Read more. - Leading role in standardising electronic invoicing for telecoms
In the early stages of the telecoms market liberalisation, BELTUG advocated the introduction of electronic invoicing by the various operators. In 2003 BELTUG, Belgacom and the Platform of Telecom Operators received an official approval of the Ministry of Finance meaning that operators could start implementing the “electronic invoice, without a paper copy” on a legal basis, long before the general electronic invoice was introduced in Belgium. In the meantime, the technology has evolved favourably, introducing a wide range of tools and applications for data exchange across multiple formats. - Study on business expectations and perceptions
In order to help ICT departments improve their relations with their internal clients, BELTUG carried out a survey in May 2006 to provide an objective view of the expectations and perceptions of e.g. the heads of business lines and the functional departments supported by ICT. Read more with a link to the study. - Annual survey on telecoms market
Each year, from 1998-2003, BELTUG carried out a survey among professional ICT users on their assessment of the fixed, mobile and Internet providers in the market. This survey was key in assisting organisations to become familiar with the new players entering the Belgian telecoms market after liberalisation. Read more. - Early price indices after liberalisation
After liberalisation of the telecoms market in Belgium, it was quite difficult for organisations to assess the competitiveness of providers’ tariffs. BELTUG established an index in which each provider would indicate the tariffs that would be charged for several fictitious business cases. The indices were updated every 6 months until 2004, when the market was more mature. Read more.
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