Houten, The Netherlands, 03 June 2011 - The Dutch fixed telephony market grew by almost 6,700 connections during the first quarter of 2011 to 6.083 million, despite a 5.8 percent drop in PSTN/ISDN connections to 1.594 million on 31 March 2011, according to Telecompaper's Dutch Fixed Telephony Q1 2011 report. The number of Dutch consumer VoIP subscriptions grew 2.7 percent during the quarter, to 4.096 million at the end of March. The growth was driven by cable VoIP, with a 3.8 percent increase during the quarter, while DSL reported a quarterly increase of 1.0 percent, compared with 0.5 percent growth in the fourth quarter. The number of mobile-only households increased to 1.332 million. The number of Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) users decreased by around 1 percent during the quarter to 394,000 on 31 March 2011.
“For 2011, we expect the fixed telephony market to grow by 1.0 percent,” said Kamiel Albrecht, Senior Analyst at Telecompaper and the report’s author. “The growth will be led by VoIP growing 9 percent to around 4.35 million connections.”
KPN saw its share of the Dutch digital telephony market decrease by 0.3 percentage points during the quarter to 32.3 percent on 31 March 2011. Ziggo was second with 29.6 percent, followed by UPC with 18.6 percent.
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