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Proximus: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Proximus is a Belgian telecommunications operator headquartered in Brussels. For companies it provides fixed and mobile services, internet and cloud telephony under the name Call Connect. The cloud service manages business calls on a landline, can be combined with Microsoft Teams and CRM tools, and comes in one tier for small firms and another for organisations from ten employees. It is delivered from the cloud rather than from on-site equipment.

The Belgian State holds a majority of the shares according to the Proximus shareholder page, so there is no foreign majority owner. The Call Connect product page states that data is stored on EU-based servers, that every call is end-to-end encrypted and that the service is GDPR-compliant; it does not name the data centres. For a European organisation the Belgian ownership and EU data storage are relevant points, but exact locations and sub-processors should still be fixed in the contract.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
BE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Proximus

The European alternatives to Proximus come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Proximus

Proximus is headquartered in BE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Proximus scores best on data residency.

Proximus is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Proximus?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Proximus include A1 Telekom Austria, Adversus and Auerswald. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Proximus?

Our list of EU alternatives to Proximus is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Proximus GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Proximus is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Proximus an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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