The number of VoIP subscriptions sold in the Dutch consumer market segment reached almost 1.8 million at the end of 2006, giving digital telephony a market share of almost 30 percent, according to the latest research from Telecompaper. KPN has shown the fastest growth in VoIP services due to higher-than-expected sales of its InternetPlusBellen service, achieving a 29.2 percent share of the market. The number of VoIP subscribers at other DSL subscribers nearly equals the telephony customers at cable operators. Meanwhile growth in mobile-only households slowed in 2006, amounting to almost 18 percent of households at the end of the year. Telecompaper expects the number of DSL-based VoIP subscriptions to surpass cable telephony subscriptions in the first quarter of 2007.
