Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) is a subsidiary of the Belgacom Group. Belgacom was the first telecommunications company in Belgium and still a market leader in many fields, particularly in wholesale and retail fixed line services, mobile communications (Proximus), and Internet and broadband data transmission services.

Over the last couple of years, Belgacom Group has deliberately seperated financial reporting of its International Carrier Services to heighten financial transparency and accountability of its activities in contrast to many of our peers. On January 1st 2005 the international carrier activities were transferred into a wholly-owned subsidiary, Belgacom International Carrier Services SA.

In order to respond more effectively to the increasing competitiveness of the international carrier market, a next milestone was accomplished on July 1st 2005. Belgacom SA and Swisscom Fixnet AG agreed to consolidate their international carrier businesses into a joint venture company Belgacom International Carrier Services. This transaction enabled Belgacom ICS to reinforce its market position and competitiveness in the international carrier market while realizing synergies. Belgacom SA owns 72% of the shares in the new company and Swisscom Fixnet 28%.

In the meantime, Belgacom ICS continued to capitalise fully on its long-established experience in carrier telecom operations together with its global network as well as its unique location in the heart of Europe. This has made of Belgacom ICS one of the most sought-after global voice and data transit service providers and the ideal partner for demanding telecom operators, all around the world.

The company offers the best price/quality ratio to wireline and wireless operators as well as service providers worldwide. Belgacom ICS is at the forefront of the international communications industry, acting as a catalyst for growth, both in terms of traffic and reach. The aim of the company is to enable global interworking across all communication standardized services.

As a result of this approach and the joint venture with Swisscom ICS, Belgacom International Carrier Services is now one of the largest wholesale carriers worldwide based on voice traffic volumes and a world leader in mobile data transit services. Operators and service providers all over the world praise Belgacom ICS for its focus on overall quality, operational excellence and its capacity to deliver a distinctive competitive edge to customers.

Belgacom International Carrier Services serves more than 500 customers, of which over 200 mobile operators, through sales offices in Brussels, Bern, Dubai, Singapore and New York. It owns a worldwide network expanding towards Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States through almost 90 PoP's in 45 cities and 30 countries. In 2007 Belgacom ICS transported in total over 14 billion minutes and achieved a revenue of 1 billion Euro.

Vision Telecommunication Providers Will Offer Their Converging Solutions Any Time, Anywhere and on Any Device, over Multiple Networks

Wholesale Carriers Will Enable Efficient Service Delivery and Seamless Interworking in a Consolidated Market

Mission Be the Hub and Service Enabler of Choice for Telecom Providers Worldwide

Deliver a Comprehensive and Unique Set of Solutions through a Winning Team of Professionals Whose Ultimate Goal is Customer Satisfaction

Strategy Belgacom International Carrier Services' strategy is articulated around three axes. The first axis is to become the market leader through further consolidation and insourcing partnerships. Belgacom International Carrier Services will continue to leverage the Swisscom reference with potential partner operators in Europe, and propose outsourcing to operators in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The second strategic axis centres around an all-IP capability in infrastructure and services. Finally, Belgacom International Carrier Services will investigate organic and inorganic opportunities to expand the service offering to mobile operators, building on the Belgacom brand, reach and extensive customer portfolio in this segment.

The Global Mobile Village is Belgacom ICS' unique and comprehensive portfolio of services targeted at Mobile Operators and created to help them reach their growth targets, while building on profitability. The suite contains Voice products as well as Hubbing solutions, Data Connectivity services and QoS products. We recently extended the Global Mobile Village portfolio with new services such as Instant Roaming, HomeSend and RoamGuard. It broadens the scope of our hubbing services geared towards the mobile community and further helps Mobile Operators in meeting end-user expectations in a cost-effective environment.

Discover now how Belgacom ICS can help you with established and new high performance solutions for your needs worldwide!

VOICE First Class Mobile Belgacom ICS' First Class Mobile Transit offers you the value of the extensive reach of Belgacom ICS' fully redundant network augmented by rigorous routing quality principles and the highest customer service priority. This allows you to offer the best voice quality experience to your customers and will bring you the best competitive advantage.

3G Video Telephony Belgacom ICS' International 3G VideoTelephony service features all the required capabilities of a high quality ISDN service, with Symmetrical, Bidirectional & Real Time strengths. It transfers your speech and video while always assuring maximum quality and ensures the optimal 'customer experience'.

PVI PVI is Belgacom ICS' Premium VoIP Transit solution over IPX. Built on top of a multi-service driving transport layer, Belgacom ICS' PVI service enables direct and transparent high quality routing between IPX connected carriers.

Value-Added Services Choosing Belgacom ICS as your partner for Value-Added Services will immediately enhance your coverage and flexibility strengths in serving your customer. With its Network Operations Centre and dedicated teams and processes in place for this service, Belgacom ICS lives up to its reputation as a high-quality wholesale carrier.

HUBBING SMS Transit Belgacom ICS' SMS Transit service is the ultimate answer to rapidly extend international SMS coverage to more than 750 destinations across all fixed and wireless standards. It complements the established set of bilateral SMS traffic exchanges (AA.19) through a single interconnection to reach an extensive set of destinations, while preserving a consolidated procedure of accounting, charging, invoicing and settlement in adherence to GSMA recommendations.

MMS Transit With a single connection to Belgacom ICS' MMS Transit platform, mobile operators and service providers gain access to 250+ interworking destinations with 2-way message exchanges in adherence to GSMA recommendations. With the launch of the optional 'MMS Virtual Delivery' feature, Belgacom ICS moreover offers worldwide MMS coverage.

Instant Roaming Belgacom ICS' Instant Roaming service gives an answer to mobile operators seeking to establish worldwide roaming and interworking in a quick and easy, multilateral fashion. It removes the need to establish a complete set of bilateral agreements with all target countries, and instead offers roaming exchange with several roaming partners through one single commercial and technical relationship.

HomeSend HomeSend is Belgacom ICS' ultimate global mobile money hub, enabling remittance and airtime exchange. It provides, for the first time, a mobile-centric approach to international remittance. This represents a significant new step in mobile payment, and indeed the telecommunications industry, allowing any mobile service provider in any country to access the international remittance market. For more information, please visit www.homesend.com.

Frédéric Schepens joined Belgacom in January 1997 and was appointed to head the Strategic Business Development department in november 2007.

Frédéric held several positions within Belgacom. In Singapore he founded and led the companies for Belgacom in the Asia Pacific region. Managed the Middle East & African continent where an office has been opened in Dubai to serve the customers in a more efficient way. Frédéric headed also worldwide mobile sales & xSP business based in HQ brussels where over 200 mobile operators and iSP's are served.

Frédéric leads today the Strategic Business Development department where he is responsible to develop strategic services & products as well as organic (& non organic) business growth through innovation, partnerships or acquisitions.

Prior to joining Belgacom, Frédéric was in the core teams of setting up mobile operators, KPN Mobile in the Netherlands and Mobistar in Belgium, which gives him a telecom experience of over 15 years.

EVP Strategic Business development

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The entrepreneurial part and processing finding innovative solutions to serve our customers even better.

No regrets so far...

I've got many from setting up successfully mobile operators, being part of this success story of belgacom ICS since it's creation, creating companies in asia for belgacom, launching new services? ...

admire the most? We have 3 shareholders (Swisscom, Belgacom & MTN) and with each of them I'm impressed with their knowhow, capacity to grow and support.

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