Rijssen, 9 November 2011 – Reggefiber is going to focus fully on its core activity: laying and operating a large-scale open fiber network. Reggefiber is steadily connecting Dutch households to fiber, thanks in part to the sale to KPN of the parts of the Reggefiber organization that supply network services to providers of fiber services. This was agreed between the parties on November 8, 2011.

The fiber network of Reggefiber in the Netherlands will be expanded considerably in the years ahead. The Reggefiber shareholders have made specific agreements on this. The percentage of Dutch households that can make use of the Reggefiber fiber network is scheduled to grow to more than 20% by the end of 2013, equivalent to around 1.5 million households. At present almost 850,000 households in over 150 municipalities are connected to the fiber network.

Reggefiber has always regarded laying and operating an open fiber network as its core task. When Reggefiber was launched in 2005, the provision of network services, including operator, internet and television services, was needed in order to secure adequate capacity utilisation on the network. The market did not respond to that need at the time, but it does today.

By selling the parts of the organisation mentioned above, Reggefiber can concentrate fully on continuing to roll out fiber networks, whilst of course maintaining the openness of the network.

The sale still needs to be approved by the NMa (Netherlands Competition Authority).