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After one of the last pay phones in the country was removed before the weekend in Mons, the last remaining booth, in the Middelheimlaan in Antwerp, was also removed on Sunday, report Belgian media
Telenet, the Mechelen-based internet and cable TV provider, has taken over mobile phone operator Base from Dutch owner KPN for €1.33 billion.
The era of the public telephone box has reached its end in Belgium.
Mobile service providers Mobistar and BASE have begun legal action against the federal government, alleging that it is refusing to pay the fees associated with providing customer details.
Belgacom, the partly state-owned telecommunications company, will in future be known as Proximus, currently the brand name of its mobile telephony subsidiary, CEO Dominique Leroy has announced.
Internet and cable provider Telenet could lose up to one-third of its clients if a deal made more than five years ago is struck down by the Council of State.
Proximus, the mobile phone operator owned by Belgacom, launched its 4G network of high-speed mobile data in Brussels yesterday.
