The total Dutch consumer telephony market grew by 39,000 connections during the third quarter of 2007 to 5.69 million, despite a 7.6 percent drop in PSTN/ISDN connections to 3.04 million. The number of Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) users grew by 103,000 to 283,000 on 30 September 2007 and the number of Dutch consumer VoIP subscriptions grew 7.9 percent to 2.37 million. The number of DSL-based VoIP subscriptions grew at a slower rate than cable VoIP subscriptions: 6.4 percent compared with 9.5 percent. This means cable VoIP regained its position as the leading VoIP technology in the Netherlands with 1.178 million customers on 30 September 2007, compared to 1.165 million DSL VoIP customers on the same date.
