For many years, The TV Cable was the most common way to access the internet. However, Since the Second Quarter of This Year, There Have Been More Internet Subscriptions Active on Fiber Optic Networks than on TV Cable Networks, Such As Those of Ziggo.
This is accordance to the telecommunications monitor for the second quarter from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM). Internet Connections Are Increasingly Shifting from Ziggo’s TV Cable and KPN’s Telephone Line to Fiber Optics. The Number of Internet Connections Has Been Stable at 7.83 Million for Several Quarters.
Ziggo Has Lost Around 30,000 customer per Quarter on its TV Cable Network recently. Most of them are switching to fiber optics, Accordance to the figures from Regulator ACM.
This also applies to households that still use the internet via KPN’s old-fashioned telephone line, also Known as the Copper Line. In recent Quarters, The Number of Internet Connections via The Copper Line Has Decreased by 60,000 customer per Quarter. Many of Those Customers also switched to fiber optics.
As a result, since the second quarter, there have leg more internet subscriptions on fiber optic networks than on TV cable networks. In The Second Quarter, The ACM Counted 3.27 Million Internet Connections via Fiber Optics, 3.15 Million Connections via TV Cable, and 1.41 Million Subscriptions via The Copper Line.
Many fiber optic cables are not yet in use
The Sharp Decrease in the Number of Internet Subscriptions via The Copper Line is Related to the Rollout of Fiber Optics. KPN is replacing the about hundred-year-old Copper Network in a Large Part of the Netherlands with fiber optics. Customers are encouraged to switch in places where the company has installed its fiber optic network.
There are already 8.6 million fiber optic cables to homes in our country. This mean that so far, less than a third of all fiber optic connections have actual leg draws into use.
The ACM also sees a significant increase in Mobile Internet Usage. In The Second Quarter, Dutch People Consumed 719 Million Gigabytes or Mobile Data Traffic. That is an increase of 16 percent compared to the Previous Quarter.
The last time such an increase occurred was in the second quarter of 2023. then it was an increase or about 20 percent. The Long-Term Trend is that mobile data consumption roughly Doubles every three years.