(Telecompaper) The fixed telephony market in the Netherlands continued to contract in the second quarter, with revenues falling to EUR 280 million, according to Telecompaper's latest Dutch Fixed Telephony Market report. The 2.5 percent quarterly decline was an improvement on the 4.6 percent drop during the first quarter. The drop in revenues, underway since 2013, is due to lower usage and falling prices. The number of fixed telephony connections in the Netherlands was stable at almost 6.3 million at the end of Q2, as a 5 percent decrease in PSTN lines was compensated by 0.5 percent growth in digital phone lines. Digital lines reached nearly 5.6 million on 30 June 2016. The strongest growth in the quarter came from VoIP users on fibre networks, which increased by 4.2 percent compared to March to around 866,000.