OREANDA-NEWS. Fitch Ratings says in its new Dashboard that the Dutch telecoms market is seeing a slower rate of decline in revenues, reflecting a lower incremental impact from competition, tariff rebalancing, mobile roaming and termination rate regulation, along with price increases.

The 2H15 Dutch Telecoms Dashboard explores key trends in the sector and their impact on the main network operators in the country.

- Key theme: The slower revenue decline of the total telecoms market in the Netherlands should alleviate the pressure to compete on price alone. Fibre and 4G bundled offers have some traction and have benefited incumbent KPN (BBB-/Positive, see Fitch report What Investors Want to Know: Royal KPN N.V, 06 August 2015, link: https://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=868906).

- What Fitch is watching: 1) Whether T-Mobile Netherland will change strategy and follow Vodafone in launching broadband service following a loss of mobile service revenue market share, 2) Whether Ziggo continues to lose subscribers and 3) The impact of Tele2's full network launch on market dynamics.

A complete review of these topics including the dashboard is available at www.fitchratings.com.