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Belgian telecoms operator Belgacom launched a commercial high-speed mobile network in Brussels On Tuesday, ending months of regulatory wrangling which left the Belgian and European capital without fast data access. Not being able to tap the lucrative Brussels market, which with its many European institutions and corporate headquarters generates about 25 percent of the data traffic in the country, was a major brake on the 4G ambitions of the mobile providers. Brussels is very important for us as there are 1.1 million inhabitants and 300,000 commuters, the European institutions and NATO, and having 4G here is very important, Belgacom Chief Executive Dominique Leroy told a news conference in Brussels. Belgacoms 4G network will initially only cover the Brussels suburbs.