Dutch merger mistake shoves Ziggo-Vodafone up against ailing KPN

Just how the Netherlands regulator is going to bring some competition back into the Dutch digital landscape is beyond us, now that the deal to merge Vodafone and Liberty Global there has been completed. It was always a thoughtless and insane deal and it has been hurriedly completed while a review of the OTT market remains underway by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Effectively it is the only country that has turned multiple technology competing markets into two quad play duopolies, and it was up to the European Commission to protect the Dutch people, but instead who railroaded this deal through, The merger of UPC and Ziggo (with the resulting company renamed Ziggo) was a merger of…