Next-generation access country overview: the Netherlands

Technology and network

• Legacy network technology and service types
• Proposed FTTN technology and approach
• KPN' s All-IP network
• NGN rollout

Retail products

DSL and FTTX

Wholesale services

• Bitstream
• Local loop unbundling (LLU)
• FTTN
• MDF Access
• Wholesale broadband access
• Services for residential access

Broadband competition in the Netherlands

• Cable operators form the biggest threat
• Government involvement in FTTx

Regulatory situation

• LLU
• Transition to all-IP networks

• Figure 1. Netherlands: network coverage (December 2007)
• Figure 2. Netherlands: next-generation access network coverage by 2012
• Figure 3. Amsterdam open network model
• Table 1. Netherlands: residential DSL products from major players
• Table 2. Netherlands: FTTx consumer products
• Table 3. Netherlands: wholesale broadband access evolution
• Figure 4. LLU in the Netherlands