Solutions4XS

Als KPN XS4ALL, den angesehensten unabhängigen Internetanbieter der Niederlande, einstellte, machte sich eine Diaspora von Ingenieuren und widerständigen Kunden auf die Suche nach einem neuen Ankerpunkt. Eines der Unternehmen, das auf diesem Sekundärmarkt entstand, ist eine Zwei-Mann-Firma in einem Polderweiler südlich von Amsterdam, deren Name wie ein Spiegel an die verlorene Marke erinnert: Solutions4XS.

When KPN retired XS4ALL, the Netherlands' most trusted independent internet brand, a diaspora of engineers and refusenik customers went looking for somewhere else to stand. One of the companies that appeared in that aftermarket was a two-man firm in a polder hamlet south of Amsterdam whose name reads like the lost brand in a mirror: Solutions4XS. Its six-year arc — from farmhouse registration through a cooperative wholesale switchboard to quiet absorption by a consolidator in 2025 — prices the whole proposition of Dutch independent access. The regulator's own file shows why: before 2022, reselling a gigabit on KPN's network left fifteen cents of monthly margin; after the commitments, a published tariff annex still hands a nine-euro-per-line scale penalty to anyone small. Nostalgia built the demand. The annex decided who could afford to serve it.