{"id":988393,"date":"2026-01-29T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988393"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:51:54","slug":"dutch-telco-kpn-sees-10-defence-revenue-growth-as-europe-boosts-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/dutch-telco-kpn-sees-10-defence-revenue-growth-as-europe-boosts-military-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch telco KPN sees 10% defence revenue growth as Europe boosts military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch \u200ctelecommunications group \u200cKPN expects its defence-related revenue to rise more than 10% in the coming years, CEO Joost \u200cFarwerck said on Wednesday, as European nations step up defence investments. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are difficult, turbulent times. Europe has to be more self-reliant. That also applies to the Netherlands, and we believe we can play a very important role in cooperation with defence,&#8221; Farwerck said in a post-earnings call with reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch \u200ctelecommunications group \u200cKPN expects its defence-related revenue to rise more than 10% in the coming years, CEO Joost \u200cFarwerck said on Wednesday, as European nations step up defence investments. &#8220;These are difficult, turbulent times. Europe has to be more self-reliant. That also applies to the Netherlands, and we believe we can play a very important role in cooperation with defence,&#8221; Farwerck said in a post-earnings call with reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}