For the first time, fiber optic is the most popular way to use the internet at home

This article was last updated on July 8, 2025

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For the first time, fiber optic is the most popular way to use the internet at home

Internet via fiber optic is for the first time the most popular way to use the internet at home. This means that fiber optics is over the coax cable and the old-fashioned telephone line.

According to supervisor ACM internet, nearly 3.3 million households via fiber optic. That is just a little more than via the coax cable, to which 3.2 million houses are connected. Internet via the telephone line, the copper cable, is quickly on its way. Less than 2 million households make use of it.

In many places in the Netherlands, fiber optic has been installed in many places in the Netherlands. Some areas even got Two fiber optic networks. The average internet speed of households is increasing due to the switch from copper to fiber optic. In the meantime, 87 percent of households have a connection of at least 100 Mbps.

KPN and Vodafone-Zziggo are the largest internet providers in the Netherlands, followed at a considerable distance by Odido and Delta. Fewer and fewer people have a subscription containing internet, television and telephony. More people throw out a phone and stick to a TV+internet subscription.