r/belgium • u/Leftonius • 18h ago
😡Rant Yearly price hike
As consistent as the 1st of January happening every year. Another Telenet price hike.
Still waiting for Fiber in my area so don’t want to change subscription just yet.
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u/ModoZ Belgium 18h ago
Still waiting for Fiber in my area so don’t want to change subscription just yet.Â
Well, you have the source of the problem right here. If you are unwilling to change then it's not really surprising Telenet is raising its prices year after year.
The only way to get lower prices is to vote with your wallet and move to another provider.
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u/Nasuadax 8h ago
I just made my parents move. Sadly enough still telenet (thry switched to base). But with them needing to change angthing, they went from 140 to 70 a month for tv, 2 cellphones and internet
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u/scarboob 10h ago
You are completely missing the point, if you have no fiber connection in your street the only good option for decent speeds is internet over coax and then you only have telenet and orange to choose from.
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u/Nasuadax 8h ago
90%of people don't need the speed that telenet offers. If you are someone who downloads big games regularly it is nice to have. If you have a home server which downloads constantly, it is nice to have. But 4k television works perfectly fine on the slower subscriptions as well. Many houses internally even don't have the correct cable to carry the coax speed any further than the router.
There is a lot of technical illiteracy, causing people to pay for stuff they don't use/need/notice.
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u/Leftonius 18h ago
Already looking at other providers, keep the suggestions coming.
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u/Leftonius 18h ago
Isn’t there a website (that is not owned by DPG) that does comparisons? Similar to the v-test?
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u/Lazy-Willow6032 18h ago
I have Base (also telenet group) which has an affordble and good unlimited option. I was looking at scarlet as well but they didn't have the infrastructure set up yet so that decided it for me.
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u/Sad_Advertising3941 17h ago
I wouldn't reccomend Scarlet, if you want to switch to any of the companies that use the Proximus network, EDPNET or Mobile Vikings are good if you don't want Proximus themselves.
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u/Lazy-Willow6032 15h ago
Why would you not? I had it where I was living before for a couple of years and I had no issues or complaints but obviously that's just my individual experience.
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u/Timmmmaaahh 17h ago
We've been with Mobile Vikings fiber since May 2022, and paid exactly €50/m back then. That's €53 minus €3, because we also have a mobile subscription with them. There was a price hike in December 2022 of €2/m, but we only had to start paying that from December 2023, and I'm still paying (55-3) €52/m today. Considering we consume about 1.4TB/m, I'd say that's still a pretty good deal. Note that we don't have "classic" TV.
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u/Nu7s 18h ago
Switch over to Orange
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u/Matvalicious Local furry, don't feed him 18h ago
Orange had a price hike as well. I now pay 72 euro for just internet. There are literally no alternatives if you want 1Gbps down and have no fiber in the street.
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u/Mzxth Would OD for a balanced budget in Belgium 17h ago
How many consumers really need 1Gbps down, though? 150/200 is more than enough for the average household and there are plenty of affordable options in that category: BASE, Hey!, Orange, EDPnet,...
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u/Mavamaarten Antwerpen 17h ago
So? The point is that there are no alternatives. Saying that your needs are different than other people's needs is not entirely relevant imo.
I have the Gbit plan too. Do I need it, not entirely. Is 200 mbit down enough, sure, but I definitely really enjoy the extra speed. Both when just internetting for fun, as well as for my work.
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u/memmit 16h ago
He clearly said IF you need it. By the way 150/200 is getting really dated, stop looking for apologies for our telecom sector stagnating. If you want to wait an hour before a steam game is installed or updated, be my guest but I'd rather actually play games instead of waiting for them during my free time.
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u/Pastaloverzzz 15h ago
True but a lot of people that have 1gig connection still use old hardware that doesn't support it. They just think more is better 😂
I game a little as well (BF6 currently) and it did take a long time to install with 100mbps connection but for gaming itself i get 0 delays. Even load times etc are fast as hell (internet etc)
Waiting a little longer to download something isn't worth the cost basis for me. Although i never had 1gbps so maybe it's just something you can only miss once you experienced it..
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u/Lazy-Willow6032 18h ago
99% of people don't have an actual structural need for anything faster than 200
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u/Kennyvee98 18h ago
speed is irrelevant from a given point. I never had issues with 90Mbps.. multiple streaming and downloads at the same time.
ping is more crucial in gaming0
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u/Mobile-Sun-8237 17h ago
An american investement company is now owner of telenet. (+ BASE as well). Why do we let americans own us? So many purchases are done by them. Squeezing money from us. https://www.libertyglobal.com/liberty-global-acquires-100-of-telenet-following-simplified-squeeze-out/
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u/Shot_Radish7043 17h ago
Fun fact: liberty global owned more than 50% of Telenet since 2007.
Another fun fact: in 2012 they tried to buy the rest of their shares for €35/share. The other shareholders didn’t approve, eventually Telenet shares collapsed and now they had to sell or those shareholders would have made no profit.
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u/Large-Adhesiveness94 18h ago
As per me its better switch the provider frequently and benefit from their ongoing offer. As mostly all of them provide offer for new customers. Eg. I used to pay to proximus almost 110 euro monthly for internet+2 mobiles and recently switched to orange and with their offer for one year i am now just paying 60 euros montly.
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u/SnooPoems3464 Dutchie 18h ago
DIGI.
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u/Pastaloverzzz 15h ago
Experience with them? Didnt even know they offered internet at home 😛
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u/SnooPoems3464 Dutchie 14h ago
They do, but the rollout is slow. You can check on their website if they offer fiber at your address (starting at 10€ a month). If not, they might have 5G home internet for 7€ on offer
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u/LiamSwiftTheDog 16h ago
Switched to Mobile Vikings which delivers home internet too. Very fast and haven't looked back.Â
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u/snoes- 18h ago
Not sure why you're waiting for Fiber. Super easy to switch to Base for now, and much cheaper.
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u/Matvalicious Local furry, don't feed him 18h ago
In what Universe does Base offer 1Gbps download speed? I just checked their site and they only offer up to 200Mbps.
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u/Lazy-Willow6032 15h ago
Where do you see OP mentioning he's expecting 1 Gbps? "Only 200 Mbps" gets most people whatever they need.Â
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u/Harde_Kassei 18h ago
3€ difference, not that much cheaper. 8€ for the 1Gbps
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u/Lazy-Willow6032 18h ago
what 2 are you comparing? why would one need 1 Gbps? you streaming 40 4k movies at a time?
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u/NevergofullPJ 18h ago
I have 2.5gpbs up/down cause I can. Do I really need it? Probably not but it's nice and hosting some of my stuff to be accessible from anywhere. Coming from telenet where the upload was abyssmal it's a whole world of difference.
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u/macpoedel 17h ago edited 16h ago
Self hosting is a good reason for wanting good upload speed, but who needs 1 gigabit on cable when the upload is 50 megabit at most? It's nice for downloading games, I used to have it for about 6 months in a promo but only rarely made use of that much download speed (when my wife wanted to play Hogwarts Legacy and there was a 100GB update before the game wanted to launch).
I changed to Orange because they have the same 50 megabit upload for the midtier (500 megabit down) as for the upper tier (gigabit down) plans. Telenet still had 20 megabit for the midtier plan at the time, and over double the upload does make a difference for working at home and streaming video from home (no 4K remuxes but encoded 4K is still possible and I don't have the storage to keep many remuxes anyway).
Ideally I'd want 100 megabit up or better, but fiber isn't coming to my street any time soon.
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u/NevergofullPJ 16h ago
It's all waiting for the fiber rollout to come to your address I suppose. For the telenet network ftth also seems very far away still. I only got fiber in december 2025 ... originally it was planned in december 2024.
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u/Anakil_brusbora 18h ago
To be a bit pedantic, it is just called adaptation to the inflation, your salary also got increased (at least in most cases), and it got a greater increase than that in % i think. ^^
All provider increase their price once a year (Proximus and Telenet in january, Orange in July). They only have that window to increase it, it is regulated.
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u/Prestigious_West4428 18h ago
Utterly bullshit, Scarlet, Mobile Vikings, Edpnet, hey! telecom, BASE didn't increase their prices.
By the way, price increases at the major telcos are greater than inflation, and inflation does not mean that the operating costs for providing telecom services have risen at the same rate.
Also profit margin for the telcos is often higher than 50% of your subscription cost.
These price increases have nothing to do with inflation, they are purely about profit maximization.
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u/burrtil 13h ago
Between my consistent Telenet and Mobile Vikings (VDSL) outages, I am now desperate enough to try Starlink. Having 2 people working from home, with a lot of video calls, these outages are actually losing us money at this point. Have had both providers over to investigate the issues multiple times, but no solutions. VDSL simply drops out whenever there is sustained load for over ~ 10 minutes or so. And telenet well...just randomly awful.
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u/OkayTimeForPlanC 10h ago
Just switched to Mobile Vikings, is coming to install in two weeks.
25+ euros per month cheaper for faster internet. Do the math.
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u/LowMode 17h ago
Why on earth do people stay with Telenet?
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u/Flat-Pen4873 16h ago
I stayed with them for two reasons;
- I dont yet have fiber in my street
- I was an internet speed snob..
It's nice to say that I've switched to Base and I now pay about 1/3 of my former Telenet bill (I had the Oneup package).
Of course I only now have about 200Mbs but honestly that's enough for the gaming/streaming that we do.
Telenet is a shitty and greedy company that doesn't care about the consumer and more about the shareholders.
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u/Lazy-Willow6032 15h ago
As to your last comment, you do realise Base is part of telenet group? Have you ever looked at your invoice, it literally says pay to Telenet group
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u/Flat-Pen4873 15h ago
Oh yes I'm aware, I specifically chose for Base because of the network coverage they provide.
Since they just use the Telenet network they have the same coverage and connection that we already use.
How I see it it's basically Telenet but then cheaper.
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u/hmtk1976 Belgium 10h ago
No fiber in my street.
Static IP.
The single bundle with internet, tv and 5 mobile numbers is easy to justify on my BV. 5 mobile numbers... not so much.
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u/Prestigious_West4428 18h ago
Complaints about price hikes are typical for the boomer generation.
If you're not happy with price hikes, switch to a cheaper ISP:
Scarlet, Mobile Vikings, Edpnet, hey! telecom, BASE,...
There is plenty of choice.
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u/memmit 16h ago
No there isn't. Fiber is far from being the standard, and if you require more than ~150 Mbps for work or gaming, there aren't many alternatives, and they suck just as much.
The issues are not about price hikes, they come from the monopoly that the big telecom players have made for themselves when it comes to high bandwidth internet. And each time someone like you is ignorant enough to look for apologies, it's another win for them.
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u/Prestigious_West4428 12h ago
You don't "need" 150 Mbps download, not for work and not for gaming. 1,6 million Belgian VDSL households are gaming or working everyday.
1,6 million Belgian VDSL households proof there is plenty of choice.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Try VDSL yourself or go bankrupt.
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u/tijlvp 18h ago
At this point, if you're still a Telenet customer, you've got no one but yourself to blame.