KPN Group Belgium challenges law imposing 2G license renewal fees

Client(s) KPN Group Belgium SA

Jones Day is advising mobile telecom operator KPN Group Belgium SA before Belgium's Constitutional Court in its challenge to a law imposing an €180 million fee for the renewal of licenses to operate a 2G mobile network. KPN and other 2G mobile operators seek annulment of the law, passed by Parliament in 2010 as a result of the Belgian government's disagreement with a Court of Appeal ruling against the telecom regulator's process for renewing the licenses. KPN and other 2G mobile operators seek annulment of the law, passed by Parliament in 2010 as a result of the Belgian government's disagreement with a Court of Appeal ruling against the telecom regulator's process for renewing the licenses.