Reliable mobile coverage inside buildings is becoming an increasingly important requirement for organisations. Yet for many, achieving it remains both technically and economically challenging. At the June M-O DAS Working Group, organised by the BIPT, Beltug brought the perspective of business users to the table, backed by practical insight from a member that faces these challenges on a daily basis.
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To support the ongoing update of Belgium’s M-O DAS (multi-operator Distributed Antenna System) guidelines, the BIPT, as Belgium’s telecom regulator, organised a M-O DAS Working Group on 17 June 2026. The meeting brought together mobile operators, infrastructure players, providers of emerging indoor coverage technologies, industry stakeholders and business users to discuss future approaches for improving indoor mobile connectivity in Belgium.
Beltug participated in the Working Group as the voice of Belgian business users, complementing the group’s discussions on technology, implementation models and possible future approaches with the practical challenges organisations face every day. To support this perspective, Beltug also contributed insight from a member organisation with real-world operational experience.
Throughout the discussion, Beltug stressed that approaches to indoor coverage must work for organisations in practice: they need to be reliable, scalable and economically sustainable.
Participants recognised that current deployment approaches do not always address every business scenario equally well. Organisations continue to face challenges in balancing costs, complexity and operational requirements for indoor mobile coverage. Beltug highlighted that these challenges are not limited to large campuses or flagship buildings, but also affect mid-sized buildings and organisations operating multiple locations across Belgium.
This insight took the discussions beyond the current passive M-O DAS approach, with participants exploring additional models for further investigation, including Active DAS, neutral host models and professionally managed multi-operator repeater solutions. They agreed that further work is needed to define the most appropriate model.
The BIPT-led stakeholder discussions led to a decision to establish two dedicated workstreams:
For Beltug members, the formal recognition of the challenges organisations face with indoor mobile coverage in the review of the M-O DAS guidelines, and the concrete work now underway to explore potential improvements, mark important steps forward. Beltug will continue to bring the perspective and practical realities of business users into these discussions as future frameworks are developed.
This includes organising a HELP YOUR PEERS roundtable discussion to bring together members who want to exchange practical experiences, lessons learned and possible approaches for addressing indoor mobile coverage challenges in complex and large/multi-site enterprise environments.
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