KPN will one of these days the first 500Mbps-glasvezelaansluitingen yield. The first test with this fast connection will be in the Amsterdam district of IJburg will be rolled out. Also Nunspeet will be on the test to participate.
KPN is the first isp that experiments with such high speed connections. The fastest connection that, until now, via fiber provided is a 200Mbps connection of Tweak Fiber. KPN itself had a maximum speed of 100Mbps. Kabelaars Ziggo and UPC offer a 120Mbps plan.
The telecom company announced in mid this year already in 2011 start to want to go with the rollout of 500Mbps-subscription. Although a large-scale introduction no question is, the company can already do with some testing. Inhabitants of IJburg and Nunspeet will this ‘short-term’ use of the available bandwidth, that is symmetric is offered, as confirmed by KPN, if requested to Tweakers.net.
At the end of October reported Tweakers.net all that KPN in silence to the investment in fibre optics had further increased. Initially proposed KPN via glasvezelpartner Reggefiber to invest in the construction of fiber connections in the living room, but the company no longer wanted to wijkkasten to make them suitable for fiber. Meanwhile, it appears KPN, however, get to do, so confirmed the company’s earlier Tweakers.net.
At the beginning of november, it was announced that KPN speed with the roll-out of its glasvezeldiensten by the acquisition of several providers of such services. In 2015, wants to KPN eventually 45 percent of the broadband market to operate.
Although KPN’s ambition to be bigger on the glasvezelmarkt no secret, came the acquisitions come as a surprise. In total, KPN has four glasvezelaanbieders acquired. Edutel, XMS and Concepts ICT are now in the hands of Reggeborgh, while Lijbrandt is owned by Reggefiber.
KPN has in Reggefiber already a minority interest of 41 per cent and will also Reggefiber Wholesale initially. This part was concerned with the provision of glasvezeldiensten to third parties. By the changed relationship between KPN and Reggefiber have the latter only have to deal with the construction of networks and the management thereof.