Digital TV connections up
The number of digital TV connections grew by 5.4 % (195,700) net additions
during the quarter ending on the 30 September (Q3) bringing the total to 3.82
million.
At the same time, digital TV increased its share of the entire TV market to
49.5 % with the likely hood that digital TV connections will exceed analogue
connections during Q4 of 2008.
This full report includes overviews of customer numbers per technology and of
customer numbers divided per provider and if applicable divided in analogue and
digital. It can be obtained from the following web location.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 29th December 2008
DTT programme council to be set up
Parliament has voted to set-up a programme council for the DTT platform. A
similar council already exists for the cable platform and provides guidance on
the line-up of the basic service package. The proposed DTT council’s advice
would affect one third of the service offering.
Broadband TV News
Item added: 22nd December 2008
DTT take-up hurts cable
The fast growth of KPN’s DTT platform Digitenne is starting to hurt the
subscription figures of the Dutch cable operators in what has been a highly
cable dominated country.
Cable operators are reported to be hitting back with aggressive marketing
campaigns.
KPN reported that it had over 670,000 DT homes by the end of September.
The report from Broadband TV News says that cable suppliers such as UPC has
seen its penetration fall below 75% and Ziggo is said to be around 80%. Before
the introduction of DTT cable penetration percentage was said to have been in
the nineties.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 9th December 2008
DTT subscribers 670,000
Telecom operator KPN has said it reached 700,000 digital television customers
at the end of September, a further growth of 64,000 new subscribers, reports
Broadband TV News
Although KPN does not issue any details about the number of subscribers for
each of its two services, Broadband TV News estimates KPN has 30,000 IPTV and
670,000 DTT homes as customers.
Source: Broadband
TV News
Item added: 27th October 2008
KPN reports 10,000 DVB-H subscribers
KPN has announced that its DVB-H mobile service, started in June 2008, now has
10,000 subscribers.
Users can access 10 basic TV services including RTL 24, which is specifically
designed for mobile viewing. KPN also offers two premium channels, one adult
channel and two live football channels from Eredivisie Live.
The LG and Samsung handsets available from KPN since
the start of the service will be joined by the Nokia N96 from the middle of
September.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 9th September 2008
Digitenne has 7% market share
Digital penetration in the Netherlands, a predominately cabled country, is now
40% according to research by Intomart/GfK for SKO (audience research
organisation for broadcasters)
The percentage of analogue viewers continues to fall and is now 73% down from
78%.
IPTV and DTH are steady at 2% and 8% of market share respectively.
DTT provider Digitenne has increased its market share from 5% to 7%.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 8th July 2008
DVB-H services to launch on the 5th June
The network/broadcast operator KPN has announced that it
will launch its DVB-H Mobile TV service, on the 5th June.
The service will provide viewers with access to 10
television programme channels at a cost of €9.95 per month for unlimited
access.
Services include Nederland 1, Nederland 3, RTL4, RTL24, SBS6, Jetix/Veronica,
MTV Music, Discovery Channel, Xite and Nick Toons. RTL24 is a service
specifically targeted for mobile devices.
Source: Broadband
TV News
Item added: 2nd June 2008
Low-power DVB-T tests in the Netherlands
The Dutch frequency regulator Agentschap Telecom has given the Association of
Dutch Local Broadcasters (OLAN) permission to start tests using a number of
low-power DVB-T transmitters. The purpose of trial is to test the feasibility
of local digital broadcasting.
The first tests will start in the municipality of Stadskanaal on the 1st
June 2008.
Source: Broadband
TV News
Item added: 6th May 2008
KPN to launch DVB-H service before June
KPN has confirmed that it will launch its DVB-H service before the start of the
Euro 2008 football championships according to reports attributed to board
member Baptiest Coopmans.
KPN have signed an agreement with RTL to supply two channels one of which is
specifically made for mobile-TV. A TV version of DAG, a multimedia news service
made jointly with newspaper publishers PCM, will also be launched on the mobile
platform.
Main source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 6th May 2008
KPN aims for 10% of Digital TV market
Network operator KPN has announced that its joint DTT and IPTV offering aims to get 10% of the TV viewing market by 2010.
Digitenne, the DTT service, has the most subscribers for the KPN service, which recently gave the number of viewers for both services as 500,000.
KPN will also start a DVB-H service this year, in time for the Euro 2008 football Championships.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 11th February 2008
KPN has half a million digital TV viewers
KPN recently announced that it has 500,000 viewers to its joint DTT and IPTV service.
This is an increase from the previously announced figure of 414,000 viewers in the third quarter of 2007. Although a break down of the figures is not given it is believed that most of viewers are watching DTT via the Digitenne Pay-TV platform
Source: KPN
Item added: 22nd January 2008
KPN reports strong TV subscriber growth
Telecom and DTT operator KPN reports that it had its fastest ever growth of new TV customers during Q3 2007.
In the third quarter which ended on September 30th, 77,000 new homes where added to its customer base bringing the total to 414,000. This is claimed to represent 17% of all digital homes in the Netherlands.
The figures consist of both the DTT customers of Digitenne and the IPTV customers of KPN Interactive TV said to be 10,000 of the total.
KPN put the growth in its sales figures down to its aggressive pricing policy.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 7th November 2007
Nearly one-third of Dutch TV connections are digital
The total number of Dutch TV connections reached 7.027 million at the end of Q2, 2007 according to Telecompaper’s quarterly update. Cable continues to dominate the total TV market with a share of 87.5%. Cables share of the Digital market grew by 1.2% during the quarter to reach a share of 60.2%.
Telecompaper estimates that the total Dutch digital TV customer base will reach 2.6 million by the end of the year.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 9th October 2007
Digitenne DTT to reach 500,000 by year-end
Dutch DTT operator Digitenne will have 500,000 subscribers by the end of the year, according to Baptiest Coopmans, a member of the KPN board, speaking during the National Broadcast Congress. “We are now getting over 25,000 new subscribers a month,” he added.
KPN positions the DTT service as a low cost alternative to cable, offering a free DTT set-top box to new subscribers. Subscription costs €6.95 a month compared with an average €15 for basic cable.
KPN has been working to extend the DTT footprint to the whole country, in the past few months and the new low budget pricing policy is gradually luring budget conscious cable subscribers to the newly available DTT service.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 14th September 2007
KPN to launch DVB-H in time for Olympics
Dutch operator KPN has said that its previously announced DVB-H mobile TV service will be launched in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The new service will use the infrastructure of KPN’s Digitenne DTT service.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 14th August 2007
KPN digital TV subscribers up to 337,000
KPN ended the second quarter of 2007 with 337,000 Digital TV subscribers, an increase of 47% on the same quarter last year.
Most of the growth was in the DTT network and attributed to improved marketing and growing network coverage throughout the Netherlands. KPN says that its digital TV market share is now 14% which is equivalent to 5% of the total TV market.
Source: KPN
Item added: 30th July 2007
KPNTV reverts to Digitenne with reduced subscriptions
Dutch Telco KPN is lowering the subscription to its DTT service by 30% from August 2nd, in a renewed attempt to compete with cable services, which have long dominated TV delivery in Holland.
KPNTV will also change back to the original Digitenne brand name for DTT and rebrand the IPTV service from Mine to Interactieve Televisie.
KPN currently claim 300,000 subscribers to its DTT service.
Main source: Telecompaper
Item added: 24th July 2007
Dutch digital TV connections grow to 2.12 million
Digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew 5.9 % during Q1 2007 to reach 2.12 million. During the same period the number of TV connections also grew by 0.3% to reach 7.026 million even though analogue TV connections dropped by 1.9 % to 4.91 million. Cable network operators continue to dominate with a market share of 87.7 %
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 10th July 2007
KPN delays DVB-H launch until 2008
Broadband TV News reports that Marco Visser, MD of Mobile, the Telco and DVB-T operator of KPN, is putting back the launch of its mobile TV service until 2008.
Despite this commercial delay the technical platform for DVB-H should still be ready in the second half of 2007.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 21st May 2007
DVB-H launch in the second half of 2007
At Cebit, Samsung were showing new phones especially developed for a potential DVB-H service in the Netherlands.
KPN has the sole DVB-H licence in the country and has invited proposals from Dutch broadcasters interested in being part on the new platform.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 21st March 2007
DTT reaches 265,000 Digitenne customers
By the end of 2006, 265,000 customers were subscribing to the ‘Digitenne’ DTT service. This is up 44% year-on-year and KPN’s new service of Dutch Premier League football (Tele2 Voetbal) has helped attracted more than 15,000 of those subscribers.
The analogue switch-off in the Netherlands took place on the 10/11th December 2006 and now KPN is set to roll out its nationwide DVB-T network.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 6th February 2007
The Netherlands becomes the first country to completely switch of analogue TV
On the night of 10-11 December 2006, the Netherlands switched off its analogue terrestrial television network. This makes it the first country in the world to complete analogue switch-off.
The process went smoothly according to KPN and only three hours was needed between switch off and getting the digital signal on the air.
The switch off means that DTT is no longer restricted to the major population areas and using the spectrum cleared of analogue TV, has been extended to rural areas.
Unlike the previous analogue service, DTT in main population areas had been brought in as a high power service so that it can be both an alternative to the extensive cable services in place around the country and be receivable on portable equipments.
To make this possible another 15 TV stations have been added to the existing 23 so that DTT coverage can be provided to 98% of the population.
Source: KPN and NU nl NET
Item added: 12th December 2006
Analogue switch-off delayed once again
The Dutch government has again changed the date when all analogue television transmitters will be switched off.
Originally scheduled for the end of October, the date was postponed to 26-27 November. It has now been delayed until 11 December. The government has not given any reason for the extra two-week delay.
Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Item added: 18th September 2006
Netherlands Analogue Switch Off date confirmed
The Dutch government confirmed that analogue switch off will take place nationally on 26-27th November 2006 instead of the 30th October previously announced.
In this heavily cabled country it is estimated that approximately 74,000 households rely on the terrestrial platform for their main TV reception, whilst second sets in the main residence and also holiday homes account for another 220,000 households.
Source: NU.NL webnews
Item added: 29th August 2006
Analogue switch-off delayed
The Dutch parliament has decided to postpone analogue switch-off because of the recent resignation of the government led by Jan Peter Balkenende.
The switch-off was originally planned to take place Nationwide on the night of the 30th October 2006.
Item added: 17th July 2006
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Dutch telco KPN to acquire Nozema Services
Dutch telco KPN and the Dutch government have reportedly reached an agreement in which KPN will be cleared to acquire all shares in broadcast transmission company Nozema Services for €75m.
With the acquisition of Nozema, KPN expects to roll out its nationwide digital TV service earlier than planned, with roll-out now planned for completion by late 2006.
Through the acquisition KPN also acquires Nozema's 40 per cent stake in Digitenne, doubling KPN's own 40 per cent stake. KPN currently has over 100,000 digital TV customers through a Digitenne package; with the acquisition, KPN obtains Digitenne’s additional 60,000 customers. These 160,000 subscribers reportedly make up around 2 per cent of the Dutch TV market.
Source: DM Europe
Item added: 16th December 2005
Analogue switch-off in 2006 for PBS stations
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced that the Dutch public broadcast services (Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3) will cease analogue terrestrial transmission in 2006. It is estimated that only 77,000 households still rely on terrestrial analogue platforms at a cost of €11 million per year.
Source: DM Europe
Item added: 19th September 2005
KPN Tests Mobile TV
KPN started its first field trial of interactive digital television to a mobile device on the 7th July 2005. KPN are holding the trial in the Hague together with its partners Nozema Services and Digitenne, supported by TNO.
KPN plan to test various technical aspects of the service during the first few weeks of operation. A more extensive trial with several hundred users will start later in the year.
The DVB-T broadcasting infrastructure already being used by KPN and Digitenne will be used for the trial. The images to mobile phones will be transmitted using DVB-H and received on Nokia 7710 media devices fitted with a DVB-H receiver. Depending on the results of the pilot, KPN expects to bring mobile digital television to market during 2006.
Source:Unstrung
Item added: 7th July 2005
Scarlet to offer DVB-T programmes
Telecom provider Scarlet is reported to be launching a digital TV subscription service. The DVB-T service uses the existing Digitenne network was planned to start on the 16th April 2005.
Source: http://www.telecompaper.com
See also: http://www.digitenne.nl
