This site is specifically built to assess how many consumers
are interested in Fiber-to-the-Home.

Connecting a single home to a fiber-optics network easily costs many hundreds to even thousands of euros. Companies that install such networks are therefore looking at a multi-million euro investment if they want to realize fiber-to-the-home (FttH) in an entire neighborhood or a district. Since those companies are currently going through rough times as well, they cannot easily afford such investments. The more people in a certain area show interest in fiber-to-the-home, however, the lesser the financial risk and the more interesting it is for them to decide to go ahead with the installation after all.

This web site is THE place to be for everyone that is interested in fiber-to-the-home, not just for Kenniswijk inhabitants but for everyone in the Netherlands. By registering yourself through the form below, you make a clear statement towards the fiber-optics companies: as far as you are concerned, they can start installing tomorrow! The more people in your neighborhood actually register themselves, the greater the impact. It commits you to nothing, but of course it also gives no guarantees !

• After sending in the form, you will automatically receive an e-mail which contains a confirmation link. Your registration will not be valid until you have clicked on that link to confirm. This extra step is necessary to prevent people to register more than once or to prevent other people from registering in your name.
• Your personal data will be treated with utmost care and confidentiality.
• Interested fiber-optics companies can get numerical overviews of registrations in a certain area, so your individual postal code will not be released.
• Your e-mailadres will only be used for validation purposes (as described above) unless you have indicated that you would like to be kept up-to-date. In the latter case we will send you news via e-mail, not more than a few times a year. Your e-mail address will be stored in a secure database at Kenniswijk BV and will under no circumstances be at the disposal of other parties.

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Is this initiative limited to Kenniswijk?

Definitely not! Even though Kenniswijk BV is the initiator of this web site, every Dutch resident is more than welcome to register!

When can I expect FttH in my home?

Next to the 1200 homes in Kenniswijk that are already connected to FttH, projects have started all over the Netherlands to promote actual FttH installation. Because digging open the streets is necessary for this installation, connecting single/individual homes is impossible. Projects are therefore realized in an entire neighborhood, or street. The survey on this site means to identify favorable locations based on which FttH companies can decide where to start installing first.

What exactly is 'broadband'?

The definition of boradband is changing rapidly. When cable and (A)DSL where still relatively new, they were considered to be 'broadband'. Compared to phone modems and ISDN, and with the lack of even faster connections, that was a feasible conclusion. With fiber-optics, however, a much faster connection is available which reduces the respective speed of the average cable/(A)DSL to 'midband' at best. That is why the Kenniswijk broadband subsidy regulation uses the following broadband definition: "all connections that have a symmetrical bandwidth of at least 10 megabits per second" (so both upstream as well as downstream).

Why FttH, when (A)DSL and cable offer increasing speed as well?

The bandwidth (=amount of information that can be transported) of a copper cable (e.g. phone line of coax cable) has been increased over the years. It is now possible to also reach download speeds of up to 10 Mbps but... this is about the highest achievable bandwidth from a technical and economical perspective.
Fiber-optics is now available as of 10 Mbps download AND 10 Mbps upload speed - and that is just the beginning. We already have FttH networks in the Netherlands that offer 100 Mbps and the developments have only just started. This super-bandwidth will be necessary in the near future because more and more services will be offered electronically. Right now, there is no abundance of broadband services yet, but installing FttH on a large scale will take many more years so it is vital that a start will be made today.