Digital TV connections more than 60%
By the end the first quarter of the year digital TV connections grew by 3.9% to reach 4.9 million according to a report from Telecompaper. The share of Digital TV in the entire market reached 61.3%. Most users (54.4%) received TV via cable.
IPTV over ADSL had 7.6% of the digital market whilst satellite had 19.9% and DTT 18%.
Source: Digital TV News
Item added: 12th July 2010
3DTV sales to reach 137,000
Research institute GfK expects that a total of 137,000 3D TV sets will be sold in the Netherlands.
In total the TV market is estimated at 1.95 million with 75,000 units being sold in the run up to the FIFA 2010 World Cup.
By the end of June it expects that 67% (5 million) of all Dutch homes will view digital TV either via cable, DTH, IPTV or DTT combined.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 11th June 2010
KPN reports one million Pay-DTT subscribers
According to its recently released 2010 Q1 figures KPN have 1,033,000 digital TV subscribers mostly watching DTT whilst 10% are using IPTV delivery.
This is an increase of 49,000 subscribers compared with the last quarter of 2009 and an increase of 198,000 compared with the first quarter of 2009.
Source: KPN website
Item added: 30th April 2010
Digital TV in 60% of homes
According to a report attributed to Telecompaper the number of TV homes in the Netherlands is now 7.95 million of which 4.71 million (60%) are Digital TV homes.
Of the 4.71 million digital homes, cable is used by the majority of users with a 53.9% share. Satellite DTH is the runner-up with 20.9%, followed by digital terrestrial (Digitenne) with 18.8%. IPTV now accounts for a 6.4% market share of the total digital TV market.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 29th March 2010
Dutch cable operator launches DVB-T plug-in tuner
Dutch cable operator CAIW has started selling a DVB-T plug in tuner so that cable users can continue to receive channels after the switch of analogue services on the 10th October 2010.
The DVB-T unit plugs in the back of existing analogue sets, which have a SCART connector and allows users to receive the 21 most popular channels which are now coded on to the network using the DVB-T standard.
Numéricable, France’s largest cable operator has also started to distribute programmes in the DVB-T standard on its own cable network.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 1st February 2010
KPN reaches 880,000 pay-DTT subscribers
According to figures in KPN’s latest financial report the company had 970,000 subscribers to its digital service at the end of 2009, up from 775,000 at the end of 2008. Of these 880,000 were pay-DTT subscribers (some DVB-H) and the remainder subscribed to IPTV service.
KPN claim a total TV market share of 13% and a 23% share of the digital TV market.
In a more recent announcement dated the 28th January 2010, KPN claim that their total digital TV subscriber base has now topped 1 million. No further break down of the figures has yet been given.
Source: KPN financial results and Broadband TV News
Item added: 1st February 2010
Digital Dutch homes reach 4.56 million
The number of digital TV homes in The Netherlands reached 4.56 million at the end of September, 2009, equivalent to 57.3% of all TV households, according to a report from Telecompaper.
The majority of digital viewers (52.6%) subscribe to cable, 22.1% watch digital DTH and 19.1% digital terrestrial.
Ziggo is the number 1 provider of digital TV (31.8); KPN is runner up with Digitenne (DVB-T) and its IPTV service (20.7%).
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 14th December 2009
DVB-T transmissions on the cable system
Dutch cable TV provider CAIW will use DVB-T to distribute digital TV on its cable system reports Broadband TV News.
As a part of the transition from analogue to digital services CAIW will reduce the number of basic analogue channels to 15 on the 30th November whilst at the same time adding a bouquet of 18 channels using DVB-T.
One of the main reasons given for using DVB-T is that most current TV receivers have DVB-T tuners and because of this an additional Set Top Box will not be needed to view the new digital service.
CAIW serves around 145,000 households with television and radio in Westland, Midden-Delfland, Schiedam, Maassluis, Aalsmeer, Uithoorn, IJsselstein, Lopik (Benschop), Halderberge (Oudenbosch), The Hague (Wateringse Veld), Doorn, parts of Capelle aan den IJssel, Loenen, Hilvarenbeek and Gouda.
The final analogue switch off is planned to take place on the 10th October 2010.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 9th November 2009
Nine Cable operators adopt DVB-C2
Nine of Western Europe’s leading cable operators have chosen to adopt the new DVB-C2 cable delivery standard.
The operators are Kabel Baden Württemberg, Unitymedia, Kabel Deutschland (Germany), Ziggo (the Netherlands), ONO (Spain), Com Hem (Sweden), Numericable (France), YouSee (Denmark) and ZON (Portugal), who in total serve 22 million households.
Virgin Media (UK), Canal Digital (Scandinavia) and UPC (Multiple territories) have not included themselves in the agreement and say that they have no plans to switch from DVB-C2 at present. Virgin Media have been reported as saying that unlike some operators they do not have a capacity problem at the moment and whilst they support DVB-C2, have no need to switch at present
Main source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 18th September 2009
Digital TV share reaches 55.6%
The digitally delivered share of the Dutch TV market has reached 55.6% according to figures attributed to Telecompaper. The article on the Broadband TV news website goes on to say that the total number of Dutch digital TV connections grew by 5.9%, or 245,800 net additions, in Q2 to 4,426 million.
Whilst the Netherlands is still dominated by Cable delivered services, KPN, who operate the Digitenne platform as well as some IPTV services, ended June with 886,000 TV customers, (a digital market share of 20%) the majority of which have previously been reported as receiving Pay-DTT services.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 18th September 2009
KPN grows DTV base
The Dutch company KPN has nearly one million TV subscribers, adding a further 60,000 households in the first quarter of the 2009.
On the 31st March 2009 KPN reported 835,000 DTV homes, with the majority using the DTT platform, Digitenne, as compared to its dedicated IPTV platform.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 8th May 2009
Over 500 channels available on DTT platforms in Europe
Recent data from the MAVISE TV database, developed for the DG Communication of the European Commission by the European Audiovisual Observatory, shows the continued expansion of television channels in the European (EU 27 + Croatia and Turkey) television market. More than 200 new TV channels were launched in 2008. There are now a total of 5587 channels (plus 412 non-European channels) available in the 29 countries.
Digital terrestrial television (DTT) has experienced significant developments in the last year.
Six of the 29 countries included in the MAVISE database have already ceased analogue terrestrial transmission.
France, Italy, Spain and the UK (four markets with large use of terrestrial television) have reached very high levels of DTT penetration in households and two of these have started regional switch-off of the analogue signals
The market will see more rapid development this year with the expected launch of new services in Slovenia, Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Poland, Greece, and Slovakia. Full article at: EAO press release
Item added: 7th April 2009
30,000 subscribers to KPN DVB-H service
KPN launched its DVB-H service in May of 2008 and currently offers 11 channels. About 30,000 people have signed up for the service, which is now offered free-of-charge to people signing up for the top-tier service and who choose a DVB-H capable handset.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 16th February 2009
DTT subscriber homes reach 735,000
Digitenne the Dutch Pay TV company of KPN announced that it has 735,000 subscribers, in its 2008 results report, an increase of 45% since 2007.
The operator also announced 30,000 subscribers to its Mobile TV, DVB-H service and 40,000 subscribers to its IPTV offering.
Source: KPN press release
Item added: 2nd February 2009
Digital TV connections up
The number of digital TV connections grew by 5.4 % (195,700) net additions during the quarter ending on the 30 September (Q3) bringing the total to 3.82 million.
At the same time, digital TV increased its share of the entire TV market to 49.5 % with the likely hood that digital TV connections will exceed analogue connections during Q4 of 2008.
This full report includes overviews of customer numbers per technology and of customer numbers divided per provider and if applicable divided in analogue and digital. It can be obtained from the following web location.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 29th December 2008
DTT programme council to be set up
Parliament has voted to set-up a programme council for the DTT platform. A similar council already exists for the cable platform and provides guidance on the line-up of the basic service package. The proposed DTT council’s advice would affect one third of the service offering.
Broadband TV News
Item added: 22nd December 2008
DTT take-up hurts cable
The fast growth of KPN’s DTT platform Digitenne is starting to hurt the subscription figures of the Dutch cable operators in what has been a highly cable dominated country.
Cable operators are reported to be hitting back with aggressive marketing campaigns.
KPN reported that it had over 670,000 DT homes by the end of September.
The report from Broadband TV News says that cable suppliers such as UPC has seen its penetration fall below 75% and Ziggo is said to be around 80%. Before the introduction of DTT cable penetration percentage was said to have been in the nineties.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 9th December 2008
DTT subscribers 670,000
Telecom operator KPN has said it reached 700,000 digital television customers at the end of September, a further growth of 64,000 new subscribers, reports Broadband TV News
Although KPN does not issue any details about the number of subscribers for each of its two services, Broadband TV News estimates KPN has 30,000 IPTV and 670,000 DTT homes as customers.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 27th October 2008
KPN reports 10,000 DVB-H subscribers
KPN has announced that its DVB-H mobile service, started in June 2008, now has 10,000 subscribers.
Users can access 10 basic TV services including RTL 24, which is specifically designed for mobile viewing. KPN also offers two premium channels, one adult channel and two live football channels from Eredivisie Live.
The LG and Samsung handsets available from KPN since the start of the service will be joined by the Nokia N96 from the middle of September.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 9th September 2008
Digitenne has 7% market share
Digital penetration in the Netherlands, a predominately cabled country, is now 40% according to research by Intomart/GfK for SKO (audience research organisation for broadcasters)
The percentage of analogue viewers continues to fall and is now 73% down from 78%.
IPTV and DTH are steady at 2% and 8% of market share respectively.
DTT provider Digitenne has increased its market share from 5% to 7%.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 8th July 2008
DVB-H services to launch on the 5th June
The network/broadcast operator KPN has announced that it will launch its DVB-H Mobile TV service, on the 5th June.
The service will provide viewers with access to 10 television programme channels at a cost of €9.95 per month for unlimited access.
Services include Nederland 1, Nederland 3, RTL4, RTL24, SBS6, Jetix/Veronica, MTV Music, Discovery Channel, Xite and Nick Toons. RTL24 is a service specifically targeted for mobile devices.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 2nd June 2008
Low-power DVB-T tests in the Netherlands
The Dutch frequency regulator Agentschap Telecom has given the Association of Dutch Local Broadcasters (OLAN) permission to start tests using a number of low-power DVB-T transmitters. The purpose of trial is to test the feasibility of local digital broadcasting.
The first tests will start in the municipality of Stadskanaal on the 1st June 2008.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 6th May 2008
KPN to launch DVB-H service before June
KPN has confirmed that it will launch its DVB-H service before the start of the Euro 2008 football championships according to reports attributed to board member Baptiest Coopmans.
KPN have signed an agreement with RTL to supply two channels one of which is specifically made for mobile-TV. A TV version of DAG, a multimedia news service made jointly with newspaper publishers PCM, will also be launched on the mobile platform.
Main source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 6th May 2008
KPN aims for 10% of Digital TV market
Network operator KPN has announced that its joint DTT and IPTV offering aims to get 10% of the TV viewing market by 2010.
Digitenne, the DTT service, has the most subscribers for the KPN service, which recently gave the number of viewers for both services as 500,000.
KPN will also start a DVB-H service this year, in time for the Euro 2008 football Championships.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 11th February 2008
KPN has half a million digital TV viewers
KPN recently announced that it has 500,000 viewers to its joint DTT and IPTV service.
This is an increase from the previously announced figure of 414,000 viewers in the third quarter of 2007. Although a break down of the figures is not given it is believed that most of viewers are watching DTT via the Digitenne Pay-TV platform
Source: KPN
Item added: 22nd January 2008
KPN reports strong TV subscriber growth
Telecom and DTT operator KPN reports that it had its fastest ever growth of new TV customers during Q3 2007.
In the third quarter which ended on September 30th, 77,000 new homes where added to its customer base bringing the total to 414,000. This is claimed to represent 17% of all digital homes in the Netherlands.
The figures consist of both the DTT customers of Digitenne and the IPTV customers of KPN Interactive TV said to be 10,000 of the total.
KPN put the growth in its sales figures down to its aggressive pricing policy.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 7th November 2007
Nearly one-third of Dutch TV connections are digital
The total number of Dutch TV connections reached 7.027 million at the end of Q2, 2007 according to Telecompaper’s quarterly update. Cable continues to dominate the total TV market with a share of 87.5%. Cables share of the Digital market grew by 1.2% during the quarter to reach a share of 60.2%.
Telecompaper estimates that the total Dutch digital TV customer base will reach 2.6 million by the end of the year.
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 9th October 2007
Digitenne DTT to reach 500,000 by year-end
Dutch DTT operator Digitenne will have 500,000 subscribers by the end of the year, according to Baptiest Coopmans, a member of the KPN board, speaking during the National Broadcast Congress. “We are now getting over 25,000 new subscribers a month,” he added.
KPN positions the DTT service as a low cost alternative to cable, offering a free DTT set-top box to new subscribers. Subscription costs €6.95 a month compared with an average €15 for basic cable.
KPN has been working to extend the DTT footprint to the whole country, in the past few months and the new low budget pricing policy is gradually luring budget conscious cable subscribers to the newly available DTT service.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 14th September 2007
KPN to launch DVB-H in time for Olympics
Dutch operator KPN has said that its previously announced DVB-H mobile TV service will be launched in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The new service will use the infrastructure of KPN’s Digitenne DTT service.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 14th August 2007
KPN digital TV subscribers up to 337,000
KPN ended the second quarter of 2007 with 337,000 Digital TV subscribers, an increase of 47% on the same quarter last year.
Most of the growth was in the DTT network and attributed to improved marketing and growing network coverage throughout the Netherlands. KPN says that its digital TV market share is now 14% which is equivalent to 5% of the total TV market.
Source: KPN
Item added: 30th July 2007
KPNTV reverts to Digitenne with reduced subscriptions
Dutch Telco KPN is lowering the subscription to its DTT service by 30% from August 2nd, in a renewed attempt to compete with cable services, which have long dominated TV delivery in Holland.
KPNTV will also change back to the original Digitenne brand name for DTT and rebrand the IPTV service from Mine to Interactieve Televisie.
KPN currently claim 300,000 subscribers to its DTT service.
Main source: Telecompaper
Item added: 24th July 2007
Dutch digital TV connections grow to 2.12 million
Digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew 5.9 % during Q1 2007 to reach 2.12 million. During the same period the number of TV connections also grew by 0.3% to reach 7.026 million even though analogue TV connections dropped by 1.9 % to 4.91 million. Cable network operators continue to dominate with a market share of 87.7 %
Source: Telecompaper
Item added: 10th July 2007
KPN delays DVB-H launch until 2008
Broadband TV News reports that Marco Visser, MD of Mobile, the Telco and DVB-T operator of KPN, is putting back the launch of its mobile TV service until 2008.
Despite this commercial delay the technical platform for DVB-H should still be ready in the second half of 2007.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 21st May 2007
DVB-H launch in the second half of 2007
At Cebit, Samsung were showing new phones especially developed for a potential DVB-H service in the Netherlands.
KPN has the sole DVB-H licence in the country and has invited proposals from Dutch broadcasters interested in being part on the new platform.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 21st March 2007
DTT reaches 265,000 Digitenne customers
By the end of 2006, 265,000 customers were subscribing to the ‘Digitenne’ DTT service. This is up 44% year-on-year and KPN’s new service of Dutch Premier League football (Tele2 Voetbal) has helped attracted more than 15,000 of those subscribers.
The analogue switch-off in the Netherlands took place on the 10/11th December 2006 and now KPN is set to roll out its nationwide DVB-T network.
Source: Broadband TV News
Item added: 6th February 2007
The Netherlands becomes the first country to completely switch of analogue TV
On the night of 10-11 December 2006, the Netherlands switched off its analogue terrestrial television network. This makes it the first country in the world to complete analogue switch-off.
The process went smoothly according to KPN and only three hours was needed between switch off and getting the digital signal on the air.
The switch off means that DTT is no longer restricted to the major population areas and using the spectrum cleared of analogue TV, has been extended to rural areas.
Unlike the previous analogue service, DTT in main population areas had been brought in as a high power service so that it can be both an alternative to the extensive cable services in place around the country and be receivable on portable equipments.
To make this possible another 15 TV stations have been added to the existing 23 so that DTT coverage can be provided to 98% of the population.
Source: KPN and NU nl NET
Item added: 12th December 2006
Analogue switch-off delayed once again
The Dutch government has again changed the date when all analogue television transmitters will be switched off.
Originally scheduled for the end of October, the date was postponed to 26-27 November. It has now been delayed until 11 December. The government has not given any reason for the extra two-week delay.
Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Item added: 18th September 2006
Netherlands Analogue Switch Off date confirmed
The Dutch government confirmed that analogue switch off will take place nationally on 26-27th November 2006 instead of the 30th October previously announced.
In this heavily cabled country it is estimated that approximately 74,000 households rely on the terrestrial platform for their main TV reception, whilst second sets in the main residence and also holiday homes account for another 220,000 households.
Source: NU.NL webnews
Item added: 29th August 2006
Analogue switch-off delayed
The Dutch parliament has decided to postpone analogue switch-off because of the recent resignation of the government led by Jan Peter Balkenende.
The switch-off was originally planned to take place Nationwide on the night of the 30th October 2006.
Item added: 17th July 2006
Previous
Dutch telco KPN to acquire Nozema Services
Dutch telco KPN and the Dutch government have reportedly reached an agreement in which KPN will be cleared to acquire all shares in broadcast transmission company Nozema Services for €75m.
With the acquisition of Nozema, KPN expects to roll out its nationwide digital TV service earlier than planned, with roll-out now planned for completion by late 2006.
Through the acquisition KPN also acquires Nozema's 40 per cent stake in Digitenne, doubling KPN's own 40 per cent stake. KPN currently has over 100,000 digital TV customers through a Digitenne package; with the acquisition, KPN obtains Digitenne’s additional 60,000 customers. These 160,000 subscribers reportedly make up around 2 per cent of the Dutch TV market.
Source: DM Europe
Item added: 16th December 2005
Analogue switch-off in 2006 for PBS stations
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced that the Dutch public broadcast services (Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3) will cease analogue terrestrial transmission in 2006. It is estimated that only 77,000 households still rely on terrestrial analogue platforms at a cost of €11 million per year.
Source: DM Europe
Item added: 19th September 2005
KPN Tests Mobile TV
KPN started its first field trial of interactive digital television to a mobile device on the 7th July 2005. KPN are holding the trial in the Hague together with its partners Nozema Services and Digitenne, supported by TNO.
KPN plan to test various technical aspects of the service during the first few weeks of operation. A more extensive trial with several hundred users will start later in the year.
The DVB-T broadcasting infrastructure already being used by KPN and Digitenne will be used for the trial. The images to mobile phones will be transmitted using DVB-H and received on Nokia 7710 media devices fitted with a DVB-H receiver. Depending on the results of the pilot, KPN expects to bring mobile digital television to market during 2006.
Source:Unstrung
Item added: 7th July 2005
Scarlet to offer DVB-T programmes
Telecom provider Scarlet is reported to be launching a digital TV subscription service. The DVB-T service uses the existing Digitenne network was planned to start on the 16th April 2005.
Source: http://www.telecompaper.com
See also: http://www.kpn.com/prive/tv/digitenne.htm
