Netherlands - Digital Economy and Digital TV - Insights, Statistics and Analysis

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 late 2006. Its excellent broadband infrastructure also forms the bedrock of popular bundled services offered by KPN and the cable duopoly of Ziggo and UPC Nederland.

This report provides an overview of media convergence in the Netherlands, profiling the major players and covering developments in digital, cable and interactive TV as well as services such as VoD, VoIP and IPTV.

Key developments:

Triple-play in a third of households; KPN signs distribution deal with BBC Worldwide; UPC and Ziggo no longer required to open cable networks to competitors; Vodafone to launch triple play offer on Reggefiber’s network; T-Mobile launches quad-play offer; regulator market data to December 2011; telco operating and financial data to Q1 2012; market developments into 2012.

Companies covered in this report include:

Digitenne, Nozema, UPC Nederland, Ziggo, Tele2, Canal Digitaal, Telfort.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Digital Media
  • 2.1 Key general trends
  • 2.2 Business models
    • 2.2.1 Bundled services
  • 2.3 Regulatory issues
    • 2.3.1 Background
    • 2.3.2 VoIP
    • 2.3.3 VoD
    • 2.3.4 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 Market overview
    • 3.7.2 VoIP providers
    • 3.7.3 KPN
  • 3.8 Cable TV
    • 3.8.1 Market overview
    • 3.8.2 Opening the cable networks
    • 3.8.3 Digital cable TV
    • 3.8.4 UPC Nederland
    • 3.8.5 Ziggo
  • 3.9 Satellite TV
• 4. Related reports

• Table 1 – Bundled services subscribers – 2008 - 2011
• Table 2 – KPN subscribers with bundled services – 2008 - 2012
• Table 3 – Digital TV subscription market share by operator – 2010 – 2011
• Table 4 – Digital TV distribution infrastructure market share – 2003 – 2011
• Table 5 – TV retail revenue by platform – 2006 – 2012
• Table 6 – Digitenne subscribers – 2006 - 2012
• Table 7 – IPTV households – 2010 - 2012
• Table 8 – KPN IPTV subscribers – 2008 - 2012
• Table 9 – VoIP subscribers – 2005 - 2012
• Table 10 – KPN VoIP subscribers – 2005 - 2012
• Table 11 – Cable TV subscribers by type – 2008 - 2011
• Table 12 – Cable TV households and penetration – 2008 - 2011
• Table 13 – UPC Nederland cable TV subscribers – 2005 - 2012
• Table 14 – UPC Netherlands revenue and annual change (US$) – 2005 - 2012
• Table 15 – Ziggo cable TV subscribers – 2007 - 2012
• Table 16 – Satellite TV households and household penetration – 2002 – 2011; 2015

• Chart 1 – Digital TV distribution infrastructure market share – 2003 – 2011
• Chart 2 – Cable TV subscribers by type – 2008 – 2011
• Chart 3 – UPC Nederland cable TV subscribers – 2005 – 2012
• Chart 4 – Ziggo cable TV subscribers – 2007 – 2012

• Exhibit 1 – Overview of digital media