Mega Belgium: what happened to Glow, Spark, Flash and Star?

Glow, Spark, Flash and Star are gone. Mega Telecom renamed its four mobile plans after their data volume — Mega Mobile 5 GB, 30 GB, 75 GB and 120 GB — and the price grid moved along with the labels. Several Belgian comparison sites still display the old catalogue.

This is not a cosmetic detail. The old plan prices no longer match anything, the volumes changed, and the promotional window went from twelve months to six. If you are looking for a Mega Flash 60 GB at €9, you are looking for an offer that has left the catalogue.

What happened to Glow, Spark, Flash and Star?

They were renamed after their data volume. Mega states it plainly on its telecom blog, in an article created on 19 August 2025 and updated on 17 June 2026: Glow, Spark, Flash and Star are evolving and are now ready for the next chapter of their story under the names Mega Mobile 5 GB, 30 GB, 75 GB and 120 GB.

The mapping is not a straight copy-paste. Two plans grew in the process, and unlimited calls spread across the whole range, whereas the old Glow was capped at 200 minutes and 200 texts.

The problem is that half the Belgian web did not follow. On 17 August 2026, one major comparison site's operator sheet still showed, in a table dated 5 May 2026, a Glow 5 GB at €1 for 12 months then €4, and a Flash 60 GB at €9 then €14. Astel, for its part, had switched to the four new names. Two sources, two catalogues, one operator — and a reader who calls Mega asking for a withdrawn rate.

How much does a Mega Mobile plan cost after the promotion?

Between €8 and €22 a month. Here is the grid recorded on mega.be on 17 August 2026, with the host network next to each line, as always here.

All four include unlimited calls and texts. The first has no promotion at all: €8 from the first month to the last, which at least has the merit of being readable.

Same calculation on the 75 GB: €84 for the first six months, €306 afterwards, €390 in total, €16.25 average per month. The gap with the headline price stays modest compared with operators that stretch a promotion over twelve months, precisely because the window is short. That is an accidental merit: the shorter the promotion, the less it distorts the real price.

Why does Mega advertise prices below its own grid?

Because the rates it puts forward include a discount not everyone gets. Mega's blog presents the 5 GB at €5, the 30 GB at €7, the 75 GB at €11 and the 120 GB at €15. Each figure is exactly the grid price minus €3: that is the multi-product benefit, reserved for customers who also hold a Mega Électricité contract.

The mechanism is clear and Mega documents it: €3 off per active SIM card, stackable up to five SIMs, so €15 a month. The discount holds as long as at least one electricity contract stays linked to at least one mobile subscription. It applies from the first month, with no wait for the annual settlement invoice.

What bothers me is the mixing in the comparison tables the operator publishes. You read a Mega Mobile 30 GB at €7 set against Mobile Vikings 30 GB at €15 and Telenet Basic 15 GB at €21. Mega's price is the energy customer's price; the others are public prices. The footnote does state that €3 must be added if you do not combine, but the gap on display is still calculated on the discounted rate.

Does Mega's 400 Mbps 5G claim match the real network?

No. 400 Mbps is a commercial ceiling; the BIPT measures an average of 94.5 Mbps download on the Orange network, and 24.4 Mbps upload. The factor of four between the claim and the measurement is not deception — it is the usual difference between a mast's theoretical maximum and what a phone gets in the street.

On coverage, the figures are moving fast and upwards. The BIPT review of mobile networks now puts 5G at 87% of households outdoors and 68% indoors, across all networks. For Orange, that is around 80% of the territory outdoors and close to 67% of households indoors. Far above the ~52% still circulating earlier this summer.

This is where verification earns its keep. The same operator sheet consulted on 17 August 2026 showed 84.9% outdoor 5G coverage in its map block and 62.70% in its FAQ, two screens apart, with no measurement date. The BIPT mobile atlas gives coverage municipality by municipality, which is the only granularity that concerns you.

Two claims belong in the same drawer: mega.be carries an Ookla best-5G-network-in-Belgium badge in its footer, while Astel describes the Orange network as the third best in the country. Same masts, two opposite rankings. We stick to the BIPT.

One point to check in your contract summary before signing: the four plan sheets advertise 5G up to 400 Mbps as included, while the options section on mega.be sells a Mega Boost at €1 a month for full-speed 5G. The page contradicts itself. We have not tested these plans in the field — we compare published price grids and public measurements, and this is exactly the kind of ambiguity a grid does not settle.

The limits of Mega Mobile

Five concrete points, all recorded on mega.be and at Astel on 17 August 2026.

eSIM is not supported: all four product sheets state that eSIM is not possible. A physical SIM card is required, so you wait for delivery — Astel quotes an average of six working days — and give up on devices with no slot.

The European allowance sits well below the Belgian volume: 35 GB in the EU and the UK on a plan that gives 120 GB in Belgium. Three weeks of holiday streaming, and the ceiling arrives before the national bundle.

Out-of-bundle is expensive. The detailed sheet on mega.be shows €0.05/MB, roughly €50 per gigabyte. Setting a spending limit in the myMega app is not a comfort tip, it is a precaution.

The catalogue stops at mobile. No internet offer, no TV, no bundle: the only possible pairing runs through electricity and gas. On the energy side, mega.be specifies that it markets its products in Brussels only to professional customers or through group purchases — worth checking before you build your budget on the €3 discount.

On reputation, it is still early. Mega Telecom entered the Belgian telecom market in March 2024 and does not appear in the latest report from the Telecommunications Ombudsman Service, which mostly reflects a low complaint volume. The 2.5/5 Trustpilot rating across roughly 1,570 reviews covers the Mega brand as a whole, energy included, and says little about the mobile arm.

Mega or another Orange label: where is the gap?

Mid-pack, energy discount excluded. Orange hosts about ten brands, and Mega is neither the most expensive nor the most aggressive. Let us compare outside promotions, the only honest ground.

The hey! rates are those recorded on 2 August 2026, detailed in our analysis of the hey! Telecom range. At the top of the range the two brands are level: 120 GB at €22 against 160 GB at €25, roughly the same price per gigabyte. In the middle, hey! takes the advantage back — 50 GB at €14 against 75 GB at €17, which gives 25 GB more at Mega for €3 more, near enough a wash.

The calculation changes entirely if you are a Mega Électricité customer. The 75 GB then drops to €14, exactly the hey! mobile L price, for 25 GB more. That is where, and only where, Mega becomes the most attractive offer on the Orange network. The full comparison of the three Belgian networks is in our Proximus, Orange or Telenet feature, and the official Mega Mobile plans page remains the only up-to-date grid.

Should you take a Mega Mobile plan?

If you are already a Mega electricity customer and your address gets good Orange coverage, yes — the €3-per-SIM discount puts the range among the best on the network, and a family with three lines saves €9 a month without changing plan.

If you have no intention of handing your energy to the same supplier, the case becomes ordinary: €12 for 30 GB and €22 for 120 GB are decent rates, not slashed ones, and other Orange labels do just as well. Add the missing eSIM and the missing internet bundle, and there is no particular reason to pick Mega over another brand hosted by the same masts.

Two steps before signing, in this order. Check Orange coverage at your exact address and along your commute, not at the scale of your municipality. Then look at the seventh-month price, not the shop-window price. To line Mega up against the other Belgian brands on that basis, our 5G plan ranking puts them in the same column, and the comparison tool lets you decide criterion by criterion.

Sources: Mega Mobile grid recorded on mega.be on 17 August 2026 (plans, options and promotional conditions pages); Mega telecom blog article on the new Mega Mobile plans, created 19 August 2025 and updated 17 June 2026; Astel sheets for the four Mega Mobile plans, recorded 17 August 2026; Selectra Mega Telecom operator sheet, price table dated 5 May 2026, page consulted 17 August 2026; BIPT — mobile network review and mobile atlas, 2026 data; hey! Telecom grid recorded 2 August 2026; Telecommunications Ombudsman Service, latest available annual report.