KPN buys breedbandprovider Demon
KPN has taken about the internetprovider Demon the Netherlands. With that gets KPN approximately 70,000 customers with it that housed will become by daughter business Apple.
KPN buys be activities suspends Demon the Netherlands of the British telecommunicatiecompany THUS Plc, that with this on the Dutch market. KPN pays 69 million Euros for the business. The 60 employees will come to work for KPN.
Demon the Netherlands addresses mainly on broad tie services, and state known as a provider with an excellent service, for which however source a more price paid must become. Under the customers of Demon, single large organizations was found of, as Fiat the Netherlands and the ministry of Foreign Affairs.
With the take-over purchase, KPN strengthens its position on the broad tie market. End of March 2006 had the business already more than 1.6 million adsl-customers in the Netherlands. Last year KPN bought all the breedbandproviders Cistron, HCCNet and Freeler. Also names KPN a part of the customers truce of Tiscali about.