Netherlands - Convergence - Triple Play and Digital TV

Synopsis

The Dutch TV market benefits from a comprehensive cable network reaching almost all TV homes, together with upgraded DSL networks which provide 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 2010, 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 Business models
    • 2.2.1 Triple play
  • 2.3 Regulatory issues
    • 2.3.1 Background
    • 2.3.2 VoIP
    • 2.3.3 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 Personal Video Recorders (PVRs)
  • 3.8 VoIP
    • 3.8.1 Market overview
    • 3.8.2 VoIP providers
    • 3.8.3 KPN
  • 3.9 Cable TV
    • 3.9.1 Market overview
    • 3.9.2 Opening the cable networks
    • 3.9.3 Digital cable TV
    • 3.9.4 UPC Nederland
    • 3.9.5 Ziggo
  • 3.10 Satellite TV
• 4. Related reports

• Table 1 – Proportion of households with products from a single provider – 2005 - 2009
• Table 2 – KPN subscribers with bundled services – 2008 - 2010
• Table 3 – Digital TV subscriptions by operator – 2008 - 2009
• Table 4 – TV statistics per market segment – 2005 - 2010
• Table 5 – Digital TV distribution infrastructure market share – 2003 - 2009
• Table 6 – TV subscription market share by platform – Jun 2010
• Table 7 – Digitenne TV subscribers – 2006 - 2010
• Table 8 – KPN digital TV subscribers – 2008 - 2010
• Table 9 – KPN IPTV subscribers – 2009 - 2010
• Table 10 – VoIP subscribers – 2005 - 2010
• Table 11 – KPN VoIP subscribers – 2005 - 2010
• Table 12 – UPC Nederland statistics per market segment – 2006 - 2010
• Table 13 – UPC Netherlands revenue and annual change – 2005 - 2010
• Table 14 – Ziggo operating and subscriber data – 2006 - 2010
• Table 15 – Satellite TV subscribers and household penetration – 2002 - 2011

• Exhibit 1 – Overview of media convergence