With Van Quickenborne abiding by EU decree that Belgium should stop its ban on combined sales, many mobile operators are reluctant to offer combined offers, because so far the combined sales ban has profited them instead of users. Ah, the irony of it all!

I’ve tried both BASE’s EDGE network and Mobistar’s 3G network. I must say that both are sluggy and inconsistent.

I am continuing my usage of mobile internet because I am used to it, but with such sub-standard level of service, first time users are reluctant to spend as much as 0.60€ per MB where one waits 5 minutes just to load Google’s mobile site.

I attribute this to the government’s inability to break sluggish incompetent operators’ monopoly.