BASE (mobile telephony)
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BASE is a mobile phone brand operated by KPN in Belgium and Germany.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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, Britisch 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.
[edit] 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 %.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
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[edit] Germany
[edit] 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.
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