Number of Dutch users of mobile internet rises to more than 10 million

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The number of people with mobile internet access increasing rapidly, and surpasses now the 10 million. At the start of this year locks 10,000 users per day, a subscription for mobile internet. The number of customers of virtual providers is also growing rapidly: in a year with more than a quarter to 3.7 million.

The number of people that have a subscription with mobile internet, take suddenly and rapidly. In the spring the locks, on average, more than 10,000 users per day for a subscription with mobile internet, a lot more than in years past. Meanwhile, there are more than ten million smartphone users with an internet subscription, so the figure for the ACM in the obtain excellent sales. On the half of 2012, there were still 8.6 million. Along with almost a million subscriptions with data only, for example, tablets and smartphones means that there are 11 million connections to mobile internet.

The use of data also continues to increase: in the Dutch networks is in the spring 7,76 petabyte converted 7,34 million GB, of data verstookt. That is almost half more than in the same period a year ago. ACM bases its figures on statistics collected from KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile.

At the beginning of the summer had the virtual providers 3.7 million customers, in the same period in 2012, there were 2.8 million, is also apparent from the figures. The Authority Consumer and Market figures has been published, gives no explanation for the increase. The growth of virtual providers probably goes hand in hand with the rise of sim-only subscriptions. Many virtual providers do not offer handsets in conjunction with subscriptions and handling less high prices for services.