Base (mobile telephony provider)

Base (mobile telephony provider)

Base is a mobile phone brand operated by KPN in Belgium and Germany.

Belgium

Base is the third largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Mobistar, a subsidiary of France Télécom.

History

Base was founded as Belgium's third mobile network operator in 1999 under the brand name of KPN Orange. It was a joint-venture between the Dutch KPN Mobile and the, then, British Orange Mobile telcos. After the take-over of Orange mobile by France Télécom it's shares in the company were sold to KPN Mobile. After a few years the brand name was changed from Orange to Base.

Base has an estimated 98% coverage of the country and 23 % market share.

Company

Base claims to be "the fastest growing mobile operator in Belgium" with about 22 % market share. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of KPN Mobile, a subsidiary itself of KPN, 98 %, and NTT DoCoMo, 2 %.

Mobile virtual network operators

The Base network is used by a number of mobile virtual network operators: Simyo (KPN), Tele2 Smart (Tele2), Aldi Talk (Medion Mobile), 1 Mobile (Carrefour), NRJ Mobile (NRJ Radio), Ortel Mobile (KPN), Al Yildiz, JIM Mobile (VMM), Mobile Telecom, Ello Mobile, Caleo Mobile, DixiTel, Ilyacom, Inphony Mobile.

Technical information

The operator's display logo is BASE, the net code is 206 20 and operates under GSM 900/1800 net frequencies (2G GSM). Its prepaid service is called Base Prepaid.

External links

* [http://www.base.be/BASE/en/Home/page.aspx/918 Base (Belgium) website in English]

Germany

History

Since 2005, the Base corporate identity and claim "freedom of speech" are also used by German operator E-Plus, also a subsidiary of KPN. E-Plus used the brand to promote a flatrate in which all calls to landlines and within the E-Plus network and all text messages within the E-Plus network are covered by a monthly charge of 25 euro.

External links

* [http://www.base.de Base (Germany) website in German]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Mobile telephony — Mobile phone tower Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to phones which may move around freely rather than stay fixed in one location. Mobile phones connect to a terrestrial cellular network of base stations (cell sites),… …   Wikipedia

  • Mobile Payments in India — Mobile Payments is a new and alternate mode of payment using mobile phones. Instead of using traditional methods like cash, cheque, or credit cards, a customer can use a mobile phone to transfer money or to pay for goods and services. A customer… …   Wikipedia

  • Mobile phone — Cell Phone redirects here. For the film, see Cell Phone (film). Handphone redirects here. For the film, see Handphone (film) …   Wikipedia

  • Mobile VoIP — or simply mVoIP is an extension of mobility to a Voice over IP network. Two types of communication are generally supported: cordless/DECT/PCS protocols for short range or campus communications where all base stations are linked into the same LAN …   Wikipedia

  • Mobile phone tracking — refers to the attaining of the current position of a mobile phone, stationary or moving. Localization may occur either via multilateration of radio signals between (several) radio towers of the network and the phone, or simply via GPS. To locate… …   Wikipedia

  • Mobile banking — Part of a series on Electronic commerce Online goods and services Streaming media Electronic books Softw …   Wikipedia

  • Mobile marketing — Marketing Key concepts Product marketing · Pricing …   Wikipedia

  • Universal Mobile Telecommunications System — (UMTS) is one of the third generation (3G) cell phone technologies, which is also being developed into a 4G technology. Currently, the most common form of UMTS uses W CDMA as the underlying air interface. It is standardized by the 3GPP, and is… …   Wikipedia

  • Advanced Mobile Phone System — Motorola DynaTAC 8000X AMPS mobile phone Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) was an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1983,[1] …   Wikipedia

  • Proximus — Год основания 1994 Расположение …   Википедия

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”