naamloze vennootschap soci t anonyme industry telecommunications founded 1999 headquarters brussels belgium services mobile and fixed line telephony revenue 610.000.000 2014 1 number of employees 824 parent telenet website www.base.be base is the third largest of belgium s three mobile telecommunications operators . it is a subsidiary of telenet . it competes with proximus and orange belgium . it was previously owned by kpn and sold to telenet in 2015 . contents 1 history 1.1 company 1.2 technical information 2 references 3 external links history edit since october 2009 it has also been the name for its fixed line and broadband adsl operations formerly marketed under brand name tele2 . base company was founded as belgium s third major 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 british orange telcos . after the acquisition of orange by france t l com its shares 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 26 % market share in mobile communications . the fixed line and broadband operations were started in 2007 after the acquisition of tele2 belgium . in the beginning of 2010 base company launched its 3g network hsdpa a few years after having deployed a strong and spread 2g edge network all over belgium . in april 2015 news got out that base is being bought by telenet for 1 325 billion euros which will give telenet access to a mobile network . 2 company edit base is a brand of base company it was formerly known as kpn group belgium . base company 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 % . the base company network is also used by a number of mobile virtual network operators simyo kpn tele2 smart tele2 aldi talk medion mobile 1 mobile carrefour & effortel ortel mobile kpn ay yildiz jim mobile vmm mondial telecom ello mobile caleo mobile dixitel ilyacom inphony mobile t rk telekom mobile mobile vikings ergatel . technical information edit the operator s display logo is base the net code is 206 20 and operates under 900 1800 mhz gsm 900 2100 mhz umts 800 1800 2600 mhz lte . 3 references edit facts & figures . base . retrieved 2016 02 24 . chief transformation officer moet fusie telenet en base in goede banen leiden . april 29 2015 . retrieved may 8 2015 . as of today 4g in brussels for all base clients . base . external links edit base belgium website in english base company v t e belgian mobile network operators base orange proximus belgian mobile virtual network operators carrefour mobile sfr belgium ay yildiz dixitel mobile vikings nrj mobile ortel mobile simyo zoniq retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title base mobile telephony provider & oldid 732403972 categories mobile phone companies of belgiumgerman brandsbelgian brandsmobile phone companies of germanykpn navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisitalianonederlandspolski edit links this page was last modified on 31 july 2016 at 19 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view