Posts Tagged ‘Holland’

Smartphone Subsidies to End in Holland!?

May 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems a shift in Smartphone purchases is to happen in the next few years in The Netherlands. Several telco’s have already said to be interested in dropping subsidies for smartphone purchases by consumers.

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GfK: BlackBerry Topping the Charts in Holland

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Some more news from our lovely home country. GfK announced that BlackBerry is still dominating the Dutch sales charts. The most popular BlackBerry phone is the BlackBerry Curve 8520.

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Smartphone Popularity in Holland

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The Phone House (also known as Carphone Warehouse) has done some research to find out how popular Android is amongst smartphone and featurephone owners. We received the numbers.

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Two New Operators will Launch in Holland

April 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

The Netherlands used to have 5 big operators. Due to acquisitions, only three where left and so, the government decided to put the old 2.6Ghz spectrums up for auction again which resulted in two new parties entering the market

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Dutch Toystore Sells Unlocked 3Gs

January 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Dutch toystore Intertoys has sent out a mailing to promote their newest toy, the Apple iPhone 3GS. This is the second time the toystore managed to sell official unlocked iPhones in Holland.

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Ovi Opens to Dutch Consumers

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Until today, Dutch consumers could only visit the English Ovi store and where limited to charging their credit cards whenever they wanted to make a purchase. Now, the store is localized and premium SMS billing is enabled.

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Pre Heads to Holland

July 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

It seems KPN has secured Palm Pre distribution for The Netherlands. A weblog called MobileCowboys found out that the device is listed as supported on one of their MVNO labels.

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Nokia Starts N-Gage Promotions in Holland

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In big markets like the UK, Nokia's N-Gage platform has been promoted to the press for some time. Now, Nokia's press agency in The Netherlands has also started to create press awareness in the hope to create awareness for the platform in The Netherlands.