Telecommunications

We started our involvement in the industry by representing USWest International at the time of the incorporation of Telenet (Belgium’s first alternative telecommunications operator), a project that lasted from early 1995 to late 1996.

Thereafter, Flip assisted Telenet in the preparation and implementation of its operations and services in the liberalized telecommunications framework. On behalf of Telenet, he negotiated the first interconnection agreement with Belgacom, the incumbent Belgian telecommunications operator, a contract that has since been used as the reference for such agreements. As the liberalization of the telecommunications sector spread, Flip was invited to negotiate many other interconnection agreements all over Europe.

Other clients followed like Telegroup, Teleglobe, Telia, Telenor, ...

Flip helped realise the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector in Congo Brazaville in 1995-1997, a project that was supported by the World Bank. Working together with financial advisor N.M. Rothschild Bank, he rethought and put in place the new regulatory telecommunications framework, organised the procedure to search for investors and assisted the local Office National des Postes et Télécommunication (ONPT) in the selection of its foreign investors.