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Den Haag, 20-3-07

KPN has significantly expanded its WiFi hotspot roaming network for customers. KPN HotSpots and WeRoam (Comfone AG) have signed an agreement to incorporate almost 30,000 WiFi hotspots from the WeRoam global virtual broadband network into KPN’s existing international HotSpot network. In turn, WeRoam will have access to KPN’s network of more than 700 hotspots throughout The Netherlands. The agreement enables KPN’s mobile customers and KPN HotSpot subscribers to access their email, corporate networks and the internet from an increased number of WiFi locations. These WeRoam hotspot locations will be complementary to the 30.000 locations worldwide already available to KPN’s customers. KPN aims to offer customers the best available connection to the people and information that are important to them, no matter where they are.

KPN has developed free Dashboard software for laptops to make using the mobile internet as easy and transparent as possible and give customers complete cost control. The more than 29,000 new WeRoam locations will automatically be added to this client software. An on-screen KPN logo gives an easy visual indication that WeRoam locations are accessible for KPN customers. WiFi hotspot usage is particularly straightforward for KPN’s mobile subscribers; wherever they are in the world, hotspot usage is conveniently billed via the standard monthly invoice. Users can enjoy WiFi connectivity without the rigmarole of using a credit card, and financial departments have a complete overview of usage and costs.

KPN Board Member Eelco Blok: “This significant expansion of our Wifi coverage allows us at KPN to offer our customers broadband internet access from even more locations around the world. Using WiFi abroad often works out to be more advantageous for customers than using a local mobile network. Besides the fact that mobile internet abroad isn’t always as fast as in The Netherlands, WiFi also ensures that the costs are predictable and controllable.”

Susanne Peters, International Sales Director for WeRoam at Comfone: “KPN is an important partner for WeRoam as their hotspot network covers some of the most visited locations in The Netherlands. Access to highly frequented locations such as the international Schiphol Airport Amsterdam is exactly what our customers at AT&T and BT Openzone expect from a leading public WLAN roaming aggregator like WeRoam. We look forward to a long term and mutually beneficial partnership with KPN.”

About KPN

KPN HotSpots offers wireless broadband internet throughout The Netherlands with its own network of more than 700 WiFi hotspots at suitable business and travel locations including Amsterdam Schiphol airport, train stations, hotels, holiday parks and cafés. The market leader in terms of hotspots in The Netherlands, KPN also offers its customers fast internet access at over 59,000 locations worldwide through its partner networks.

KPN is the leading multimedia company in the Netherlands, providing consumers and consumer households with fixed and mobile telephony-, internet- and TV services. To business customers, KPN delivers voice-, internet- and data services as well as fully-managed, outsourced ICT solutions. Both nationally and internationally, KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties, including operators and service providers. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy with its mobile operations, and serves multiple customer segments in consumer as well as business markets.

As of December 31, 2006, KPN served 6.3 million wireline voice subscribers, 8.6 million mobile customers, 2.1 million Internet customers and 0.3 million TV-customers in the Netherlands as well as 15.0 million mobile customers in Germany and Belgium. With 28,368 people (25,976 FTEs), KPN posted revenues of EUR 12.1 bn, with an EBITDA of EUR 4.8bn in 2006. KPN was incorporated in 1989 and is listed on the Amsterdam-, New York-, London- and Frankfurt stock exchanges.

About WeRoam

WeRoam is a trademark of Swiss company Comfone AG. Comfone provides roaming services to over 300 operators in 125 countries worldwide. Its services portfolio includes signalling, data, clearing, hubbing and convergence services.

WeRoam specialises in wholesale mobility management and roaming solutions for the fixed and mobile telecommunications sector. Its patented open roaming platform connects to nearly 60 WISPs and offers an aggregated footprint of more than 29.000 hotspots. Key solutions found in GSM technology have been adopted to make up the WeRoam service. This positions WeRoam as the only open roaming platform supporting username/password and SIM based authentication for WLAN Roaming. All solutions easily integrate with existing products of Internet, Enterprise, GSM and VoIP service providers.

Learn more about WeRoam at www.weroam.com

WeRoam contact:

Michael Gebert, phone: +41 31 341 1124, fax: +41 31 341 1021, email: michael.gebert@weroam.com