KPN

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Koninklijk KPN NV (Royal KPN) is a Dutch telecommunications company.

KPN is currently active in the Dutch, German, and Belgian telecommunication markets. In the Netherlands, KPN is the owner of the fixed telephone network and is the market leader in mobile telecommunications, with the brands KPN and Hi. On the Internet services market, KPN is owner of the following ISP's: xs4all, Planet Internet and Het Net.

In Germany, KPN is, with daughter company E-Plus, the third player on the mobile telephony market. In Belgium, the KPN subsidiary Base is the third supplier of mobile telephony.

Primafoon is the retail daughter of KPN, which sells:

• mobile phones and network service subscriptions
• fixed phones
• desktop computers, notebooks and organizers
• Internet service subscriptions
• answering machines
• fax machines

History

Before 1989, KPN was called Koninklijke PTT Nederland, and before that Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie (State Company of Post, Telegraphy and Telephony), or simply PTT.

Before the spinoff of TPG, the company also controlled the national Dutch post system.

Relations to other articles — Click (+) to find similar articles.
KPN  has subsidiary  Primafoon (+), Call Center Solutions (+), Base (+), xs4all (+), Planet Internet (+), and Het Net (+)
KPN  Ehas subsidiary  -Plus (+)
KPN  has partner  Siemens (+), Aspect Communications (+), and Valektro (+)
KPN  has competitor  Deutsche Telekom (+), Vodafone (+), O2 (+), and Orange (+)
KPN  company  (+)
KPN  stock at  (+), and (+)
KPN  in region  (+), (+), (+), and (+)
KPN  in sector  (+), (+), (+), and (+)

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Attributes of KPN — Click (+) to find similar articles.
of type: services (+)
founding year: 1,989 (+)
number of employees: 31,116 (+)

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