Tele2 Netherlands CEO Guenther Vogelpoel told Reuters it was not in the market just to increase market share on a small scale.
“We have to invest hundreds of millions in our network in the Netherlands. We don’t just do that for a few percentage points of market share,” he said.
The group has just struck a 10-year deal to use T-Mobile’s passive infrastructure, including mobile towers to enable its mobile rollout in the Netherlands.
It invested approximately $213.71 million for a licence to operate a mobile network in the Netherlands in December 2012.
The Dutch market has been ripe with speculation in the past week following America Movil’s bid to take full ownership of KPN.
