T-Mobile Netherlands and DELTA Fiber Nederland have struck a long-term agreement to provide services via each other’s networks. Under the agreement, T-Mobile’s fixed internet and TV services will become available to 1.3 million households and businesses covered by DELTA Fiber’s high speed fibre broadband network, via an open access wholesale model. Furthermore, DELTA Fiber – which offers MVNO mobile services under dual brands DELTA and Caiway – will now offer 5G mobile services via T-Mobile’s national cellular network, stating that it is the first Dutch MVNO to offer ‘Unlimited 5G’ (with unlimited monthly 5G mobile data) to its customers. Additionally, T-Mobile intends to utilise DELTA’s fibre network to support the acceleration of its 5G network expansion.
A total of five million premises can now purchase fixed broadband internet and TV services via fibre from T-Mobile (including access via all its wholesale/open access partners, joint ventures and owned infrastructure), a press release stated, adding that in the next year T-Mobile expects to deliver fibre-based services to six million addresses, and in the longer term virtually all Dutch households and businesses.
DELTA Fiber intends to grow its high speed fibre open-access footprint to two million premises in 2025, with T-Mobile planning to add all these new addresses to its own fibre service footprint.