Belgacom recently won the “2009 Innovations Award for Fixed Network Infrastructure” awarded by Global Telecoms Business magazine. This award is the recognition of the innovative way Belgacom extended its broadband network in Belgium, which started in 2004. With its fiber/VDSL2 network Belgacom has since built up a unique leadership position in Europe. It has helped make Belgium among the most advanced countries with respect to broadband.
This recognition rewards also Belgacom’s strategy with innovation and transformation as the main pillars. This strategy ensures also that Belgacom will meet its customers’ demands with continued success in the future. Belgacom won the award together with the suppliers Alcatel Lucent, Ikanos Communications and Sagem Communications.
On the roof of the Belgacom Towers, an installation of solar panels is now up and running. Henceforth, they will contribute self-generated green electricity to cover part of the Belgacom Towers’ needs. There are some 250 panels with a total surface area of 418 m2. Each year they will produce 47 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy. You will be able to track the production level on a display panel in the atrium. This is the Belgacom Group’s second photovoltaic installation. The first one was installed in the building in Woluwe and is visible from the E40-highway on the Woluwelaan overpass. In addition, there are also already 9 solar-powered boilers that have been installed in the buildings in Ghent, Evere, Eigenbrakel, Liege, Libramont, Doornik, Marcinelle, and Flawinne. These provide hot water for the plumbing facilities. This year, a number of other green energy projects will be launched as well. In this way, the Belgacom Group aims to generate 70 MWh of electricity and 27 MWh of heat, which will reduce their CO2 emissions by 72 tons.
In the future, Belgacom wants to offer even faster internet connections. That is why a pilot project was started in the Walloon city of Rochefort, where glass fiber connections are being installed in the homes of end-users. Later this year two more pilot projects will be launched in Wallonia and Flanders.
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