KPN passes TV milestone

Dutch telco KPN passed the two million TV customer milestone in the second quarter, giving it a TV market share of 26%.

KPN had 4.467 million IPTV customers at the end of June, up from 1.424 million in March and 1.21 million in June 2013. The company’s Digitenne digital-terrestrial TV base continued to decline. Under the category ‘other’ which also includes analogue TV customers, KPN had 533,000 customers, down from 556,000 in March and 675,000 last year.

Blended TV ARPU amounted to €15, up from €14 last year.

KPN’s triple play base reached 47%, five points up on the same period last year.

KPN said it would accelerate the rollout of vectoring for its broadband platform, giving access to 100Mpbs broadband to 50% of its base by he end of this year.