The Dutch consumer fixed telephony market grew by 40,000 connections during the first quarter to 6.23 million lines, according to Telecompaper’s quarterly Dutch Fixed Telephony Market report. Growth was driven by a 4.9 percent quarterly increase in consumer VoIP subscriptions, which offset a 7.2 percent drop in PSTN/ISDN connections and 1.4 percent fewer WLR connections. Retail revenues for the consumer fixed telephony market went 0.4 percent higher in the quarter to EUR 386 million.
Growth in the VoIP market was led by the increasing use of FTTH/B networks; VoIP users over fibre networks grew by 9.3 percent during the quarter. VoIP over DSL networks increased by 2.2 percent, and cable VoIP subscribers lifted 2.0 percent. Telecompaper expects the fixed telephony market to continue expanding until 2017, with a CAGR of 1.2 percent per year, with VoIP lines more than offsetting the continued decrease in PSTN/ISDN and WLR users.
