Koninklijke Kpn N V - Report of Foreign Issuer (6-K)
March 21 2008 - 6:25AM
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For March 20, 2008
KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V.
Maanplein 55
2516 CK The Hague
The Netherlands
(Exact
name of registrant and address of principal executive offices)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under
cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F
x
Form 40-F
o
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in
this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission
pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yes
o
No
o
If
Yes is marked, indicate below the file under assigned to the registrant in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b):
This
Report on Form 6-K contains a copy of the following press release:
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KPN Mobile International and Artilium partner to further
upgrade innovation for KPNs mobile networks, dated March 20, 2008.
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Press release
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KPN Mobile International
and Artilium partner
to further upgrade innovation for KPNs mobile
networks
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Date
20 March 2008
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013pe
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Activates mobile Internet applications
based on Microsoft .NET
The Hague, NL
and Brussels, Belgium March 20, 2008 Today, KPN Mobile International, a
leading European provider of next-generation telecommunications services, and
Artilium, a leading European developer of software for mobile network
operators, announced their partnership to create new opportunities for user
generated applications on KPNs mobile networks.
The software
enabling this transformation is Artiliums Real-Time Architecture (ARTA) for
Connected Mobile Services, designed to facilitate rapid creation of new mobile
applications, packaged as services. The software platform is almost entirely
designed by Artilium on the Microsoft product portfolio.
The
partnership includes a licensing agreement allowing KPN deployment of ARTA as a
platform for next-generation converged services across its growing base of over
27 million mobile subscribers in the Benelux, Germany and Spain.
KPN Mobile
International Chief Executive Officer, Stan Miller said, This agreement is a
major boost for KPNs strategy on MVNOs ( Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in
Europe. Artilium software allows KPN to surge to the forefront of mobile/Web
innovation. We are able to open our network to developer communities worldwide
to deliver an infinite range of differentiated services and an exciting new
level of personalisation and interactivity for subscribers. In doing so, we
begin to transform the very essence of our business creating new
service-centric business models across a broad value-chain that includes
developers, advertisers and our commercial partners.
Artilium unifies IP, PSTN, ISDN and GSM network communications and
provides the framework that securely opens the mobile network to rapid
application innovation
, said Artilium Chief Executive
Officer Robert Marcus. We are
delighted to be partnering with KPN in this groundbreaking work that brings
with it an unprecedented level of business model originality and value-chain
diversity.
Commenting on
the agreement, Steve Zimba, Managing Director Global Telecom Business at
Microsoft Corp. said: We are excited
that KPN and Artilium have chosen the Microsoft platform to power their
ecosystem of connected mobile services. We will be working closely together to
help make this great vision a compelling reality for the millions of consumers
who are eager to embrace rich, personalized and contextually-aware mobile
experiences.
About
KPN
KPN is a
leading international telecommunications and ICT service provider, offering
wireline and wireless telephony, internet and TV to consumers and end-to-end
telecom and ICT services to business customers. The international KPN data and
IP services are enabled through an extensive, high-capacity fibre-optic network
in 22 European countries, plus worldwide connections to 180 countries. KPNs
subsidiary Getronics operates a global ICT services company with a market
leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in
infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a
multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market
positions through E-Plus and BASE. KPN provides wholesale network services to
third parties and operates an efficient IP-based infrastructure with global
scale in international wholesale through iBasis.
At December 31,
2007, KPN served over 35 million customers, of which 27 million in wireless
services, 5.4 million in wireline voice, 2.4 million in broadband Internet and
0.5 million in TV. With 25,500 FTEs (43,531 FTEs including Getronics), KPN
posted revenues of EUR 12.6bn in 2007, with an EBITDA of EUR 4.9bn. KPN was
incorporated in 1989 and is listed on the Amsterdam, New York, London and
Frankfurt stock exchanges. For more information, visit
www.kpn.com/international
About
Artilium
Artilium
develops carrier-grade software that unifies communications and opens mobile
networks to
user-generated mobile Internet application
development and innovation, enabling rapid creation of a virtually infinite
ecosystem of autonomous software processes interoperating as services in an
open yet structured and secure architecture.
Artiliums ARTA Connected Mobile Services Framework is an open, modular
and highly extensible Service-Oriented Architecture that includes a Service
Creation Environment, a real-time Service Delivery Platform including an
Intelligent Network, and a Mobile Presence Server that intelligently combines
highly accurate, continuous real-time location and state awareness to enable a
vast range of new mobile commerce, advertising and social networking services
based on the companys patented Tri-Cell Intelligent Location System (TILS).
Founded in 1995 and recognized for advanced and
innovative engineering, Artilium has completed more than 40 installations
serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries.
Artilium
plc is a publicly listed company with AIM on the London Stock Exchange
(LSE/AIM: ARTA). The company is based in Belgium.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V.
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Dated: March 21, 2008
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By:
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/s/ MICHEL
HOEKSTRA
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Michel
Hoekstra
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Legal Counsel
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