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<li>The four major Dutch fixed internet providers (KPN, Odido, VodafoneZiggo and DELTA) have rejected demands by the Dutch Consumer Association (‘Consumentenbond’) to end differential pricing between new and existing customers.</li>
<li>Consumentenbond highlights that “sleeping” subscribers who signed up from 2020 onward now pay 25–30% more than at inception after successive inflation-linked increases, while aggressive acquisition offers continue to undercut those rates for new joiners.</li>
<li>A concrete illustration: a KPN customer who took the lowest-tier package in early 2022 at EUR 42.50/month now pays EUR 51.86, versus promotional first-year pricing of EUR 35.00 available to new customers in the latest campaign.</li>
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The four major Dutch fixed internet providers (KPN, Odido, VodafoneZiggo and DELTA) have rejected demands by the Dutch Consumer Association (‘Consumentenbond’) to end differential pricing between new and existing customers.
Consumentenbond highlights that “sleeping” subscribers who signed up from 2020 onward now pay 25–30% more than at inception after successive inflation-linked increases, while aggressive acquisition offers continue to undercut those rates for new joiners.
A concrete illustration: a KPN customer who took the lowest-tier package in early 2022 at EUR 42.50/month now pays EUR 51.86, versus promotional first-year pricing of EUR 35.00 available to new customers in the latest campaign.


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<ul><li>Elon Musk's Starlink recently <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/25/t-mobile-phones-will-connect-to-starlink-for-free-starting-next-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced plans</a> to enter the global carrier market, spooking shareholders of space-based cellular operator AST SpaceMobile.</li><li>AST, which went public through a SPAC in 2021, has plans to commercialise global space based telecommunications, but has notably struggled due to technical challenges.</li><li>AST Shareholders have feared that the Starlink announcement risked overshadowing the company’s upcoming launch and also possibly beat the company to market, despite the latter having a significant head start.</li></ul>

Elon Musk's Starlink recently announced plans to enter the global carrier market, spooking shareholders of space-based cellular operator AST SpaceMobile.AST, which went public through a SPAC in 2021, has plans to commercialise global space based telecommunications, but has notably struggled due to technical challenges.AST Shareholders have feared that the Starlink announcement risked overshadowing the company’s upcoming launch and also possibly beat the company to market, despite the latter having a significant head start.

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