Dutch Telco KPN Continues Pull In To Pay TV

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May 9, 2011 12:46 PM, By Philip Hunter

The Netherlands' obligatory telecom user KPN has one after another its assertive pull for expansion in pay TV by appropriation local line user Caiway for an undisclosed amount. Caiway delivers TV, broadband and telephony services in a few tools of the Netherlands by line and essential element infrastructures and had expected to obtain in to IPTV to spread its footprint. Instead it has been swept up by KPN's grander skeleton to turn a leading player in the Dutch pay-TV marketplace by reaching line together with its own IPTV and DTT subscribers.

KPN's new fortunes in pay TV have been mixed, with burly expansion in IPTV offset by slight reject in DTT and one after another wearing away of its subscriber bottom for mobile TV formed on the luckless DVB-H standard. As of June 1, KPN will follow the lead of many other operators by interlude its DVB-H-based mobile TV service. And similar to some other operators, KPN's mobile TV service got off to a great beginning in 2008, induction 40,000 customers in the initial year, but given then, subscriber figures have depressed usually in the AWOL of convincing calm and insufficient of ample quality. There are now 20,000 customers left. KPN wants to use the frequencies allocated to DVB-H for its DTT service Digitenne and hopes to enlarge subscribers there, that declined by 13,000, or 1.5 percent, over the initial entertain of 2011 from 895,000 to 882,000 by Mar 31.

However, IPTV subscriptions rose strongly by 19.2 percent from 302,000 to 360,000 over the same period. This took KPN's complete number of pay-TV subscribers to 1.242 million, or 16 percent of the Dutch pay-TV market. The Caiway merger brings an extra 143,000 TV subscribers, raising KPN's share to 18 percent.