KPN goes at the end of this year the speed of its fastest fiber-subscription build. The company informs that in the quarterly. The top speed of the fastest subscription goes to a maximum of 500Mbps up and down.
The hefty increase of the top speed is in the English-language press release on the quarterly figures that the provider presented Tuesday morning. The speed will be symmetrical and so will the upload speed is also 500Mbps amounts, confirms KPN opposite Tweakers.net. The increase in speed suggests that KPN sees more bread in the market for fiber. Some time ago, said the provider is still in the short term, more to be seen in a large-scale roll-out of vdsl2.
The number of customers with glass fiber at KPN experienced a strong increase. Where last year around this time, about 26,000 customers had a fibre optic connection, now already 61,000 customers of fiber-to-the-home. That number will increase, because there is some time between order and activation of the internet connection, says KPN.
In other areas, knew KPN no large growth: for example, the number of mobile telephony customers last year of nearly six million a year ago to 5.5 million now. The share of call minutes in the turnover decreased from 66 percent to 61 percent, because customers get more data to use. That declining revenues from call minutes that KPN from september with new mobile subscriptions, with the height of the data bundle is linked to the number of calling minutes.
The number of customers with a tv subscription at KPN via Digitenne has increased by about 15 percent to 1.3 million. The market share of KPN in the area of fixed internet increased from 83 to 84 percent, while the market share in the area of voip increased from 56 to 62 percent. KPN reported last quarter a profit of 414 million euros, 11% less than in the same quarter last year credited could be. The turnover amounted to 3,29 billion euro, a decrease of 1.9 percent.