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Netherlands - Telecoms, IP Networks and Digital Media
Market Briefing
Published: July 2011
Pages: 118
Tables: 129
From: GBP 549.00 Buy Now!
Research from: Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd.
Sector: Broadband & Fixed
Publication Overview
This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the Dutch telecommunications market. The report analyses the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors. Subjects include:
- Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
- Facts, figures and statistics;
- Industry and regulatory issues;
- Infrastructure;
- Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
- Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
- Mobile voice and data markets;
- Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
- Convergence and digital media;
- 3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015;
- Broadband market forecasts for selective years to 2020.
Key developments:
Regulator rules that UPC Netherlands and Ziggo no longer have to open up networks to rivals; KPN reveals strategy to 2015; UPC launches mobile internet services for SMEs; Ziggo obliged to launch mobile services by 2012; KPN, T-Mobile and Vodafone join with banks to launch m-payments system in 2012; KPN ends its mobile TV service to reuse spectrum for Digitenne DTT platform; Glashart fibre market share stands at 90% of homes passed; KPN to upgrade its FttH to 1Gb/s and cover 20% of households by end-2013; smaller cablecos bypassing DOCSIS3.0 for FttH; Reggefiber secures additional loan to extend FttH network; Glashart Media provides open access to its FttH network; regulator market data to end-2010; operator data to Q1 2011.
Companies covered in this report include:
KPN, Reggefiber, Ziggo, UPC Netherlands, Orange Netherlands, Versatel, Vodafone Netherlands, Tele2 Netherlands, Scarlet Telecom, Digitenne, Nozema, Canal Digitaal, Telfort, Glashart, Teleplaza, OONO.
Executive Summary
Maturing digital market overturns Open Cable ruling
BuddeComm’s annual publication, Netherlands - Telecoms, IP Networks and Digital Media, provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in the telecommunications and digital media sectors in this leading market, including operator and regulator data to the first quarter of 2011.
The Dutch telecom market has one of the most developed infrastructures in Europe, providing a solid foundation for the country’s IP-services offerings. Almost 90% of the population uses the Internet, while the high broadband take-up has benefited from government support and competing cable, fibre and DSL platforms. FttH networks have become also a significant feature of the country’s broadband landscape, with an effective collaboration between national, regional and municipal governments working with the industry and with academic institutions to ensure that the Netherlands maintains its broadband lead into the fibre age.
The strong broadband infrastructure has provided a range of content and digital products, including bundled offers. There are at least a dozen operators offering a double-play package (fixed-voice telephony and broadband), while several others offer TV and broadband and full triple play services (TV, broadband and fixed voice) to more than a million subscribers.
Mobile penetration has approached 130%: the success in this sector since 2006 has largely been owed to strong competition among the network operators and the range of MVNOs which has kept consumers prices low. Operators have shifted their focus on migrating prepaid subscribers to higher ARPU contract plans, and have ended or curtailed handset subsidies and commissions to sellers. KPN has a comfortable market lead, though the 2007 purchase of Orange Netherlands by T-Mobile has created a significant challenger. SMS remains the most popular mobile data service, though in coming years the upgraded networks utilising HSPA+ and LTE technologies will enable consumers to make greater use of high-end data services. Mobile TV was soft-launched by KPN in 2007, though the service was terminated in mid-2011 since DVB-H had failed to become worldwide standard and the small subscriber base had dwindled to 20,000.