Dutch VoIP growth slows down, despite 1 mln cable VoIP users (Netherlands)The total Dutch consumer telephony market grew by 2,000 connections during the second quarter of this year to 5.999 million, despite a 3.6 percent drop in PSTN/ISDN connections to 3.8 million. The number of Dutch consumer VoIP subscriptions grew 7.1 percent during the second quarter to 2.2 million on 30 June. However, the quarterly growth was lower than during the first quarter due to KPN’s decision to limit the weekly intake of InternetPlusBellen VoIP customers to 5,000. DSL-based VoIP subscriptions grew at a slower rate than cable VoIP subscriptions: 5.7 percent compared with 8.3 percent. DSL VoIP ended the quarter with 1.095 million connections, adding only 65,000 customers, while cable-based VoIP subscriptions grew by 82,600 to end the quarter with 1.076 million customers, passing the 1 million users milestone. KPN is the largest VoIP provider, with a market share of more than 31 percent on the Dutch digital telephony market, followed by UPC (19.2%) and Casema (12.3%). The quarterly growth for the remaining quarters of 2007 is expected to be around 13 percent, or 250,000 net additions, driven by the cable network operators. This will lead to around 2.8 million VoIP users at the end of this year.
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