VoIP growth accelerates in Netherlands
Growth in digital telephony is accelerating in the Netherlands. At the end of the first quarter of 2006, the number of consumer VoIP subscriptions reached 853,000, up 206,000 from the end of 2005, according to research from Telecompaper. The study shows that incumbent KPN’s share of the consumer fixed market has been in steady decline, as cable and DSL rivals quickly convince their internet customers to take VoIP services. More than 10 percent of Dutch households were connected through a cable or ADSL-based VoIP fixed telephony access line at the end of the first quarter.
The market penetration of traditional access lines (PSTN, ISDN) dropped to an estimated 72.7 percent of Dutch households at the end of the first quarter, from 83.1 percent a year before. In total KPN lost in the year to March 2006 around 640,000 consumer PSTN and ISDN connections to mobile-only households and households switching to VoIP. However, KPN has made a quick start with VoIP, and had already 73,000 subscribers connected at the end of the first quarter and 100,000 at the end of April.
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