The Belgian provider Base will be in the summer of next year to stop offering its triple-play package Snow. Base says to want to go to focus on its mobile products and services, and lays the blame for the stop of the service, partly by the government.
On the Snow website is to read the service for iptv, internet and voip on June 30, 2015, from the air. Also, customers can Snow not order more at Base. The existing subscribers, approximately 30,000, without additional cost to make the switch to Scarlet, a subsidiary of Belgacom. They can also provide the Snowbox decoder and the dsl modem to continue to use.
Base, owned by KPN, mentions two reasons for the cessation of its triple-play package. First of all, says the provider that the greatly increased costs is no longer a competitive price can offer. This would include, in particular, costs that result from government measures. Also would the Belgian government to have a long wait with the opening of the cable and telecom market, writes Datanews. Furthermore, Base that the growth of new customers lagged behind the expectations. The company says that it is again fully want to focus on the mobile market.
Snow was there since the beginning of 2013. In addition to the relatively cheap subscriptions gave Snow that makes use of the dsl network of Belgacom, to subscribers the possibility to choose the tv package for each station to expand.
