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KPN....is the continuation of the publicly owned landline operator, which was privatised back in the '80s. Currently, they still handle the bulk of landline connections for historical reasons, while also being the largest mobile carrier in the country.

Due to declining revenue from regular voice and text services, the company announced this week its intention to fragment the web and start spying on its customers. Starting this summer, customers will have to pay additional fees to use services like Skype....

KPN claims existing customers with running contracts will not be affected, and that the policy is only valid for new contracts. This isn't entirely true, though; KPN is using a loophole. Technically, the terms and conditions already state services like VoIP and text-over-IP are not allowed; they just never really cared about it, no measures were put in place to actually prevent people from using these services. Starting this summer, even for existing customers, technological measures will be put in place to stop these services from working.

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