KPN Additions Exceed 1 Million Customers

KPN has reported that its mobile division won more than 1.2 million new customers during 2003. KPN's German unit E-Plus attracted 937,000 additional customers, whilst KPN Mobile The Netherlands grew by 171,000. In Belgium, BASE achieved a total of 114,000 additions, of which 90,000 in the fourth quarter alone. With over 8.2 million customers in Germany, over 5.2 million in the Netherlands and 1.25 million in Belgium, KPN ended 2003 with some 14.7 million mobile customers.

At the end of 2003, KPN had a total of 870,000 i-mode customers. KPN should pass the one million i-mode customer mark in February. The number of i-mode customers has therefore almost doubled since the end of September.

KPN CEO Ad Scheepbouwer is satisfied with this development. "If you had said beforehand that we would achieve one million customers within two years as the first in Europe with a completely new mobile data product, I would have gladly taken it."

Posted to the site on 2nd February 2004