Netherlands - Convergence - Triple Play & Digital TV

Synopsis

The Dutch TV market benefits from a comprehensive cable network reaching almost all TV homes, together with upgraded DSL networks providing IPTV services to most households. The country was the first to complete the move to DTTV broadcasting, in December 2006. The country’s excellent broadband infrastructure also forms the bedrock of popular triple play services offered by KPN and the cable duopoly of Ziggo and UPC Nederland. This report provides an overview of media convergence in the Netherlands in 2009, profiling the major players and covering developments in digital, cable and interactive TV as well as services such as VoD, VoIP and IPTV.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Convergence
  
  • 2.1 Key general trends
    
  • 2.2 Triple play models
    
  • 2.3 Regulatory issues
    
    • 2.3.1 VoIP
      
    • 2.3.2 Cable tariffs
      
• 3. Digital TV
  
  • 3.1 Overview
    
  • 3.2 Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV)
    
    • 3.2.1 Market overview
      
    • 3.2.2 Digitenne
      
    • 3.2.3 Nozema
      
  • 3.3 Free-to-Air (FTA) TV
    
  • 3.4 Interactive TV (iTV)
    
  • 3.5 TV-over-DSL (IPTV)
    
  • 3.6 Video-on-Demand (VoD)
    
  • 3.7 VoIP
    
    • 3.7.1 VoIP providers
      
    • 3.7.2 KPN
      
  • 3.8 Cable TV
    
    • 3.8.1 Opening the cable networks
      
    • 3.8.2 Digital cable TV
      
    • 3.8.3 UPC Nederland
      
    • 3.8.4 Ziggo
      
  • 3.9 Satellite TV
    
• 4. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Proportion of households with products from a single provider – 2005 - 2008
• Table 2 – KPN subscribers with bundled services – 2008 - 2009
• Table 3 – TV subscription market share by operator – September 2008
• Table 4 – Digital TV subscriptions by operator – March 2009
• Table 5 – TV statistics per market segment – 2005 - 2008
• Table 6 – Digital TV distribution infrastructure market share – 2003 - 2008
• Table 7 – Digitenne TV subscribers – 2006 - 2009
• Table 8 – VoIP subscribers – 2005 - 2009
• Table 9 – KPN VoIP subscribers – 2005 - 2009
• Table 10 – UPC Nederland statistics per market segment – 2005 - 2009
• Table 11 – UPC Nederland revenue – 2006 - 2009
• Table 12 – Ziggo operating and subscriber data – 2006 - 2008
• Table 13 – Satellite TV subscribers and household penetration – 2002 - 2008

• Exhibit 1 – Overview of media convergence