What is K-P-N?

Answer 1

The company was formerly called Koninklijke PTT Nederland, and before that Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie or PTT and was the publicly owned fixed line operator of The Netherlands. Before the spin-off of TPG, the company also controlled the national Dutch postal services. The Dutch government progressively privatised KPN beginning in 1994, reducing its stake to 6.4% in 2005 and finally to zero in 2006. It has thus given up its golden share veto rights.

In 2001 KPN tried to merge with the Belgian telco Belgacom. It did not succeed because of the unwillingness of the Belgian government. In 2001, Spanish Telefonica expressed an interest in buying KPN.