Starting out as a civil engineer in telecoms, Patrick Delcoigne has made it his mission to bring broadband to the parts of Belgium that other networks simply cannot reach. His commitment to connecting Belgium to the world has seen him introduce asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services to the country as part of the network engineering team in the 1990s and then take the operator through every step of network upgrade and innovation to the present day’s live introduction of 25G PON fibre.
Given his engineering background, Delcoigne’s conviction is that technology is the answer and his career has proven this to be the case. Proximus, previously known as Belgacom, has taken Belgium from a country with just over half of households owning at PC in 2004, according to analyst firm Forrester, to its next goal of providing multi-gigabit services to 100% of the population. “We…
