Orange Breedband Netherlands
Orange Breedband is the only ISP in the Netherlands to offer its customers three different access technologies: dial-up via the normal telephone network, ADSL via the KPN or its own network, and cable via the Casema network. Until 27 June 2006, Orange Breedband Netherlands was called Wanadoo Netherlands, but as part of its parent company France Telecom's strategy to rebrand all services to Orange, the name was dropped. On 28 September 2007, Deutsche Telekom agreed to acquire Orange Netherlands from France Telecom for EUR 1.33 billion. During the month of October 2007, T-Mobile Netherlands completed the acquisition of Orange Netherlands and unveiled the new management structure; it also said that it does not expect any forced redundancies among staff as a result of its takeover. The brand name Orange is expected to be discontinued in the course of 2008. T-Mobile does not know yet if Orange's broadband activities will be sold off separately or that the company will hold on to these activities, but sold the around 140,000 Orange cable customers to Dutch cable network operator Ziggo in May 2008. This profile offers an overview of Orange Breedband's activities, services and products plus market analysis and SWOT.
