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Netherlands regulator gets to impose the wholesale access condition on the VodafoneZiggo in common with the other telecom markets in a region. Dutch market has been seen a sharp decline in fixed-line voice markets as the customers get to migrate to the VoIP and the mobile platforms for the voice calls. Also, physical copper infrastructure has been replaced with the fiber and as a sector of the process some customer in the rural areas, where cost of the deploying fiber is very prohibitive, and it is going to be served with the 5G voice as well as the data services in the coming years. The trend is going to gain pace once the 5G us widely available from 2022.

This country has highest fixed broadband penetration speed globally, with an effective cross-platform competition that is between the DSL and the HFC networks stimulated by the various fiber deployments. By the mid-2018, a third of the fixed broadband connections offering the data of 100 Mb/s. Under the regulatory measures adopted in the month of October 2018, main cableco VodafoneZiggo has been obliged to provide wholesale cable broadbands access to the competitors. The KPN has some similar obligations on the wholesale copper and fiber access. VodafoneZiggo since the late 2018m has been able to trial DOCSIS3.1 tech with the view to be able to deploy service based on new standard across the network during the year 2019.

Given the developments, the market share held by the DSL, once a dominant platform, has been able to fall consistently for the numerous number of years as the customers get to migrate to the faster cable as well as fiber-based networks. By the end of the year 2018, fiber has been expected to be able to account for only 20% of all the fixed-line broadband connections. In mobile segment, decline in number of traditional SIM cards has been partly due to the high results of the higher mobile penetrations as well as the competition on the pricing that has meant which the subscribers have minimal cause to get SIM cards from the various providers to be able to capitalize on the cheaper on the net tariffs. In common with the other European regions, the LTE sector is the main driver in the sector. While the operators have been concentrating the investment on the 5G, some including the KPN has begun the process of the closing 3G infrastructure with the view to refarm spectrum as well as the other assets for the LTE and the 5G services.