Internet price barometer for Belgium

Method

We collect the tariffs publicly advertised by operators and date every survey. The survey date appears beneath the table.

We record the standing tariff outside temporary promotional campaigns and outside conditional reductions, so that the series remains comparable from one survey to the next.

We publish no ranking score. The table is sorted by ascending price, which is a factual ordering, and a low price is not by itself evidence that an offer suits you.

No operator can influence the survey or appear in it against payment. Anyone can reproduce it from the same public sources.

What the barometer does not say

It says nothing about availability at your address. A cheap fibre offer is worthless if your street is not connected, and the technology depends on the address rather than the operator.

It says nothing about upload speed, even though that is the deciding figure for remote work. It sits in the offer detail, not in the price.

And it says nothing about ancillary costs: activation, modem rental, installation. These rarely appear in the advertised price and regularly appear on the first invoice.

Reusing the data

The figures are published under an open licence and may be quoted or reused, including commercially, provided Switchr.be is cited as the source and the survey date is stated.

The series is kept over time and can be provided in a structured format on request, which allows the evolution of the Belgian market to be tracked rather than read at a single date.