KPN is an ISP that sells high-speed internet, telephony, and TV bundles directly to residential and business consumers across the Netherlands (Source). KPN started offering consumer internet via DSL in the late 1990s (Source).
KPN is a Network Operator that owns and operates nationwide full-fibre and copper broadband infrastructure (Source), (Source).
Netherlands
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Organization: Any kind of organization. The Organization class represents a kind of Agent corresponding to social instititutions such as companies, societies etc.
About
KPN (Koninklijke KPN N.V.) is an ISP and Network Operator that owns and operates nationwide full-fibre and copper broadband infrastructure while selling high-speed internet, telephony, and TV bundles directly to residential and business consumers across the Netherlands since its corporatization on January 1, 1989, from the former state-owned PTT, with major milestones including the launch of FTTH fiber rollouts via Reggefiber in 2005, full privatization in 2006, introduction of GPON technology in 2019 followed by XGS-PON upgrades in 2021 for multi-gigabit symmetric speeds, formation of the Glaspoort JV with APG in 2021 for €1.2 billion to add 1 million fiber passings in rural areas, acquisition of Kabeltex in 2023 for northern fiber expansion, and reaching more fiber than copper subscribers by 2022 with plans to cover 80% of households by 2026. Glaspoort expects to exceed 1 million fibre connections by end of 2026, having connected 950,000+ homes and businesses (Source), (Source), (Source).
Operator Characteristics
Organization type
ISP
(1998-01-01)
KPN is an ISP that sells high-speed internet, telephony, and TV bundles directly to residential and business consumers across the Netherlands (Source). KPN started offering consumer internet via DSL in the late 1990s (Source).
Network Operator
(1989-01-01)
KPN is a Network Operator that owns and operates nationwide full-fibre and copper broadband infrastructure (Source), (Source).
Retail-only ISP?
No
KPN is not retail-only; KPN constructs and maintains its proprietary full-fibre, part-fibre, and copper networks as the national incumbent while retailing services to consumers and businesses alongside wholesale access (Source), (Source).
Wholesale-only Network Operator?
No
KPN is not wholesale-only; KPN retails fiber and DSL broadband directly to 2.8 million consumer and 384,000 business end-users via its KPN brand while mandatorily wholesaling open-access lines to 1.2 million customers of third-party ISPs like T-Mobile and Online.nl under regulatory requirements (Source), (Source).
Business-only ISP?
No
KPN is not business-only; KPN provides Glasvezel fiber broadband up to 1 Gb/s symmetric and VDSL bundles to both 2.8 million residential households nationwide and tailored high-capacity options up to 4 Gb/s with VPN/security for 384,000 business sites including SMEs and enterprises (Source), (Source).
KPN owns KPN Copper, legacy twisted-pair infrastructure supporting ADSL-based broadband nationwide as part of the 100+ year-old fixed backbone now being phased out in favor of fiber (Source), (Source).
KPN owns KPN Full-Fibre, a proprietary FTTH/GPON/XGS-PON network passing nearly 4 million households in urban and rural areas via Glaspoort JV for symmetric speeds up to 10 Gb/s (Source), (Source).
KPN owns KPN Part-Fibre, hybrid fiber-to-the-cabinet VDSL deployments with vectoring and pairbonding reaching 80% of homes for up to 80 Mb/s in transitioning neighborhoods (Source), (Source).