We offer telecommunications services to both consumers and business customers. Our core activities are telephony and data services through our fixed network in the Netherlands, mobile telecommunications services in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium and data services in Western Europe. We are the market
leader in the major segments of the Dutch telecommunications market. Through E-Plus in Germany and BASE in Belgium, we hold the number three position in the mobile market in these countries.
At the end of December 2003, we had 7.7 million fixed-line subscribers and 1.5 million Internet customers in the Netherlands and 14.7 million mobile customers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. As of the same date, we had 32,736 employees.