Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications

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The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications ( Dutch Belgian Instituut voor postdiensten en telecommunicatie , French Institut belge des services postaux et des télécommunications , BIPT for short ) is the Belgian regulatory authority for the telecommunications and postal market. It is based in Brussels . The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications was founded in 1991 as a semi-public authority. It is the member administration of the CEPT .

As a federal authority, it performs the following functions:

  • Regulation of the electronic communications market
  • Regulation of the postal market
  • Management of the spectrum of radio frequencies
  • Media regulation in the Brussels-Capital Region .

Objectives of the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications

The basic principles of BIPT are:

  • Protect consumer interests
  • Promotion of competition (market access)
  • Social inclusion
  • Management of scarce resources
  • Network security

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website BIPT: About Us , accessed 1 October 2015