Dutch researcher Telecompaper this week provides an updated view of the Dutch pay TV market which puts fresh numbers on the rival operators VodafoneZiggo and KPN, and which certainly supports our belief that UPC and Ziggo should never have been allowed to merge. It makes the point that Ziggo and KPN have 84% of the pay TV market, on rising revenues but falling market share with VodafoneZiggo on over 52%. There is no mention of broadband, but our own calculations would have KPN at 2.2 million broadband homes, and VodafoneZiggo at 3.3 million, giving them around 76% jointly, with VodafoneZiggo on 45.6%. Clearly the two mergers of UPC with Ziggo and then Vodafone with the combined companies, have created a…