Dutch telco KPN gets 1M VoIP customers

Though total Dutch adoption of VoIP slowed to only a 4 percent year-over-year increase, telco KPN took the lion's share of the growth, and now reaches more than 1 million VoIP customers in the Netherlands.

During the third quarter, KPN raised its market share nearly 5 percent to 34 percent of the total Dutch market. Its leading competitor, Ziggo, added fewer than half as many new customers as KPN did, with 18,500 adds for Ziggo compared with 47,000 wins for KPN. KPN has taken a different approach than most North America telcos and has aggressively expanded into IP communications, adding VoIP services with its 2007 acquisition of iBasis and signing up lots of customers to its IPTV service as well.

The total Dutch market now stands at 3.5 million users, according to telecompaper.com.  The market is evenly split between DSL and cable providers of VoIP, with 1.521 million DSL VoIP connections compared with 1.408 million cable VoIP subscribers. 

For more:
- see the telecompaper.com article here [1] 

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