Number of SIM-only subscriptions sharply increasing
the number of SIM-only telephone subscriptions in recent grown considerably in the Netherlands, mainly at the expense of prepaid.
The percentage of subscriptions including smartphones in recent years remained virtually unchanged. This GSM Helpdesk calculated on the basis of ongoing research from the Consumer Panel from Telecompaper.
The increase in SIM-only subscriptions thus mainly at the expense of prepaid. The percentage of respondents with a valid SIM card declined between 2012 and 2016 from 15 to 12 percent. And the share bought a package with phone and prepaid SIM card fell from 12 to 6 percent.
In total, the proportion of prepaid users in the Netherlands thus 18 percent half as large as the proportion of SIM-only subscriptions.
Lower costs
The growth in subscriptions would be explained by low subscription cost of many available sim-only subscriptions, which often also monthly cancellable. Also in the Netherlands are relatively large mobile operators active:. A total of over 60 on the networks of KPN, Vodafone, Tele2 and T-Mobile
, the number of subscriptions including device meanwhile remained almost stable. The end of 2012 had 49 percent of the respondents such a plan, in June 2016, the proportion of 46 percent.
The research from Telecompaper runs from the third quarter of 2012. Between that time and in June 2016, the number of sim-only subscriptions in the Netherlands from 24 to 36 percent.
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