who is the owner of the cable?

there is not one item, that the belgium government has handled in the right way in the past. take for account the cable. belgacom was a formerly government-company that was responsible for telephony and cable. the task was to distributed and to maintain the cables. more than half a century the common people has to pay for that cable and normally spoken this cable belongs to the people and not to belgacom.

in the time that belgacom was privatised without the consent of the common man by guy verhofstad, the belgium premier for short-term profit, there was nothing done by belgacom to renew the old cable by glassfiber, a big fault and neglect. this is also the reason that belgacom can’t claim the cable as their property.

now belgacom blocks the access of other companies by asking very high prices for the access of the network (the old-fashionated and obsolete cable, payed by the common people). belgacom and telenet have made price-agreements to counteract newcommers in the market. telephony and internet are the most expensive in europe and at this very moment a lot is written in the media. europe will codemn belgium again and the citizens will pay the price!