Royal Kpn

摘要

When A.J. (Ad) Scheepbouwer meets with investors these days, he usually has good news to share. That's a refreshing change from when he joined Royal KPN as chief executive officer in November 2001. The former Dutch telecommunications monopoly was wrestling with losses in its German mobile phone business and weak market share in its domestic mobile phone operations. All that's in the past; the company, headquartered in the Hague, is growing again. KPN is the top mobile phone services provider in the Netherlands, with 17.9 million subscribers (51.2 percent of the market). Scheepbouwer oversaw the restructuring of the company's German mobile phone business, E-Plus Mobilfunk, so that it became profitable again, and allocated more resources for broadband and Internet television in the Netherlands to attract new subscribers. The number of customers subscribing to KPN's digital TV service grew by 11.3 percent in the first quarter, to more than 553,000, and last month the company launched Europe's first national mobile TV network. KPN's year-over-year income rose 22.1 per- cent in the first quarter, to €3.6 billion ($5.7 billion), and earnings per share increased 18.8 percent, to €0.19.