Digital City (Delta Rijssen Fiber Optic Investments) has transferred three fiber optic networks to KPN, announced KPN this week.
This involves the fiber optic network in the outskirts of Westerveld (Drenthe), Lingewaard and Berg en Dal (Gelderland). The networks together serves approximately 7,700 addresses. The networks are open networks on which KPN and other providers provide services.
From 2021, KPN said it will roll out approximately 500,000 new lines annually. In addition, KPN is actively looking at possible partnerships. In three years' time the Operator targets to have more than half of the Netherlands to have fiber from KPN and by 2025 this will be approximately 65%. After that, KPN will continue with the renewal of its network, so that in the long term more than 80% of the Netherlands will have access to a fast and future-proof internet connection.
KPN has traditionally opened its network to other providers - wholesale customers - to offer telecom services. KPN will continue to do this unabated. It offers consumers and businesses more freedom of choice and makes better use of the capacity of KPN's network.
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Joost Steltenpool, director of KPN Network NL: “We are rapidly modernizing our existing copper networks by replacing them with fiber optics. As a result, we can provide our customers and those of our wholesale customers with fast internet and let the Netherlands lead the way digitally. We install fiber optics ourselves on a large scale and where possible we work together with other parties. This is also the case with Digital City. Adding the networks in Westerveld, Lingewaard and Berg en Dal to ours is a logical step in that collaboration.
