Solutions4XS

Quando a KPN aposentou a XS4ALL, a marca de internet independente mais confiável dos Países Baixos, uma diáspora de engenheiros e clientes insatisfeitos saiu em busca de outro lugar para se estabelecer. Uma das empresas que surgiram nesse mercado secundário foi uma firma de dois homens em um vilarejo de pôlder ao sul de Amsterdã, cujo nome parece a marca perdida em um espelho: 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.