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The Netherlands’ competition authority (NMa) approved the joint venture between KPN, the Dutch telecom incumbent, and Reggefiber, a FTTH operator, to build out fiber networks to homes in the Netherlands. Initially, the competition authority and OPTA (the telecom regulator) rejected the joint venture because they feared that companies’ tie-up would exclude service providers from delivering competing voice, IPTV, Internet and other services on the network.

However, the NMa approved the venture after KPN and Reggefiber agreed to allow other companies to…

There’s at least one incumbent telco who’s happy to use its competitor’s fiber network to deliver telephony and IPTV: KPN in the Netherlands. The incumbent Dutch telco announced that it is moving its customers to Reggefiber’s network. There’s at least one incumbent telco who’s happy to use its competitor’s fiber network to deliver telephony and IPTV: KPN in the Netherlands. The incumbent Dutch telco announced that it is moving its customers in Almere (a suburb of Amsterdam with a population…