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Telecommunications

NACE 6130 · division 61 Telecommunications
Current registrations 26division 61: 1,982
Starters, 12 months 317division 61 · 16.0 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Employment (FTE) 17,699division 61 · financial year 2025
Median age 8.4 yearsdivision 61 · Belgium 10.7 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 61 · financial year 2025 · 623 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
41.2%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€9,568
Belgium €16,569
Median equity
€79,099
Belgium €98,595
Loss-making
32.8%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
15.8%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
13.5%
Belgium 16.0%
Median liquidity
1.53
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 61

109 employers
Median
€79,600
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€60,200 to €104,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
13 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €68,400 €53,000 to €83,400 47
10 to 49 FTE €89,500 €70,600 to €111,200 39

Spread across the country

by region and province · 18 of 26 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Wallonia 7 · 38.9%
  • Brussels 6 · 33.3%
  • Flanders 5 · 27.8%
fewer moremax 6

Largest employers

NACE division 61 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 PROXIMUSSchaarbeek 8,312 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 TELENETMechelen 2,476 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 SOCIETY FOR WORLDWIDE INTERBANK FINANCIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONLa Hulpe 2,099 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 ORANGE BELGIUMEvere 1,953 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Proximus NXT ITSchaarbeek 502 FTEfinancial year 2025

Foreign control in NACE division 61

873 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €10.4m awarded 90 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Ontwikkelingsproject
  • Federal transfers 226.3m amount as published 11 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie aan de NV Astrid ten behoeve van het Astrid-netwerk
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €15.5m paid 11 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux médias de proximité
  • EU budget €143.6m attributed share 15 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Information and communication technology
  • EU research €15.4m eu contribution 14 recipients · 2013 to 2025 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Telecommunications

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 61 is higher than that of 94% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 61 is 0.7%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 797 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2008 classification, the version in which code 6130 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 61, not only NACE 6130. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait.