Introduction
How is the communication system in Netherlands? Here, Broadcast media include more than 90% of households are connected to cable or satellite TV systems that provide a wide range of domestic and foreign channels; public service broadcast system includes multiple broadcasters, 3 with a national reach and the remainder operating in regional and local markets; 2 major nationwide commercial television companies, each with 3 or more stations, and many commercial TV stations in regional and local markets; nearly 600 radio stations with a mix of public and private stations providing national or regional coverage. What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Netherlands
Internet country code .nl
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
Total 7,525,016 (2020 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 44 (2020 est.)
Internet users
Total 16.56 million (2021 est.)
Percent of population 92% (2021 est.)
Telecommunication systems
General assessment Telecom infrastructure in the Netherlands continues to be upgraded as modernization schemes undertaken by telcos make steady progress; other fiber providers have been supported by regulatory measures which have encouraged municipal governments to intervene with telcos’ fiber builds, facilitating open access networks in a bid to make rollouts cheaper, and completed sooner; while the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are also closing down their Global System for Mobile Communication (MSM) and 3G networks and repurposing their spectrum and physical assets for LTE and 5G, the regulator has also encouraged GSM/3G roaming in the interim, thus safeguarding services such as machine to machine and other low data-use applications while individual MNOs disable their own GSM/3G networks; the country has one of the highest fixed broadband penetration rates in the world, with effective cross-platform competition between Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Hybrid Fiber Coazial (HFC), and fiber networks; in the third quarter of 2020 the number of cable broadband connections fell for the first time, while the DSL segment has long been eclipsed by fiber; by the end of 2021, over a quarter of fixed broadband connections were on fiber infrastructure, while DSL accounted for only about 29%; almost 49% of fixed connections provided data above 100Mb/s, while an additional 43.7% provided data of at least 30Mb/s (2022)
Domestic Fixed-line is 29 per 100 and mobile-cellular at 125 per 100 persons (2021)
International Country code - 31; landing points for Farland North, TAT-14, Circe North, Concerto, Ulysses 2, AC-1, UK-Netherlands 14, and COBRAcable submarine cables which provide links to the US and Europe; satellite earth stations - 5 (3 Intelsat - 1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat) (2019)
Telephones - fixed lines
Total subscriptions 4.57 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 26 (2022 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular
Total subscriptions 20.737 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 118 (2022 est.)
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Netherlands is found in Western Europe