Deutsche Telekom mulls reintegrating T-Online
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Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications giant, indicated for the first time that it is considering reintegrating its publicly listed Internet arm, T-Online.
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Germany's Deutsche Telekom  wants to step up its efforts to cut labor costs and boost competitiveness by redeploying a large number of its civil servants and slimming down its bloated administration.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Commission gave the go-ahead for theÂ â¬675 million saleÂ ($887 million) of AOLâs German Internet service provider to Telecom Italia on Wednesday, after a month-long probe of the deal. "The Commission's examination of the proposed transaction showed that the horizontal overlaps between the activities of Telecom Italia and AOL in Germany (i.e. broadband and narrowband Internet access services) are limited and that the combined firm would continue to face a number of strong, effective competitors, notably the incumbent Deutsche Telekom," the Commission said in a statement. Time Warner has beenÂ retreating from AOL's Internet access businessÂ in Europe, where its subscriber numbers have been declining. In September it agreed to sell its French operation to Neuf Cegetel for â¬288 million, and has beenÂ in talks with suitors in the U.K., including satellite TV broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group. The company has about 5.9 million customers for its three European divisions, in the U.K., France and Germany. For Telecom Italia, the deal is part of a reorganization away from telephony towards broadband Internet access. Buying AOL Germany will help consolidate its broadband access service in Europe, the company said recently. The move would make the company the second largest Internet access provider in Germany with over 3 million subscribers, it said. Under the deal's terms, AOL will provide Telecom Italia with co-branded entertainment services to all of its residential customers for five years. AOL will also retain responsibility for all online advertising, also for five years.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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German phone giant Deutsche Telekom said Saturday it plans to buy back full control of its Internet unit by next year to profit from burgeoning demand for broadband Internet services, a move that could cost the company euro2.
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Will there ever be a merger of national telecoms such as Telia-Sonera again? Politics makes it difficult.
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T-Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless unit  of Deutsche Telekom AG DTEGn.DE, does not expect to offer  broadband mobile data services for at least the next two years,  its chief executive said on Thursday.
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Deutsche Telekom posted a loss of nearly 900 million euros ($1.18 billion), prompting the company to look abroad for growth.
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Internet service provider T-Online International AG said Thursday that a German federal court has cleared the way for its absorption by majority owner Deutsche Telekom AG, dismissing appeals against the deal.
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T-Mobile is testing a service that combines VoIP and cellular access in hopes of catching up with its competitors.
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LONDON, October 11  - Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE.ETR) has offered to buyback the remaining stake in its Internet services subsidiary, T-Online International AG, for about â¬3 billion ($3.
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German telecommunications giant Telekom on Saturday announced plans to take its Internet unit off the stock market in a â¬2.9 billion ($3.
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T-Mobile, Germany's leading mobile phone operator, said it was planning to axe up to 2,200 jobs as part of a  one-billion-euro (1.3-billion-dollar) cost-cutting drive to boost profitability in face of current difficult market conditions.
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Europe's biggest telephone carrier,  Deutsche Telekom, aims to reach 20 million mobile phone  customers in the United States next year and is mulling a new  brand for business clients, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Deutsche Telekom  plans to keep on cutting jobs and may consider small investments in emerging markets, its chief executive said in extracts of a newspaper interview released on Sunday.
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After five weeks of strikes, management and unions at Deutsche Telekom appeared to take tentative steps Tuesday to resolve their dispute over a radical shake-up of the German telecom&#39;s services unit.
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Telecom Italia SpA has taken time off from a reorganization that has plunged the country's politics into turmoil by paying 675m euros ($870m) cash for Time Warner's AOL Germany internet access business in a deal that will make it Germany's second largest ISP.
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(InfoWorld) - With the support of German lawmakers, incumbent telecommunications operator Deutsche TelekomÂ is racing into a head-on clash with the European Commission over a decision to keep rival operators off its new high-speed broadband network. The upper house of the German parliament approved a revised telecommunications law on Friday. The law will allow partially state-owned Deutsche Telekom to ban competitors from using its VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) network to sell services. The decision flies in the face of Commission legislation that mandates member states to force telecommunications companies with dominant positions -- in most cases former state-owned monopolies -- into opening their network infrastructure to rival operators on favorable terms. While Deutsche Telekom eventually opened its local-loop infrastructure under pressure from Brussels, the operator has fought attempts to allow competition on its new network. It argues that the VDSL network represents a new market for combined triple-play telephony, high-speed Internet and TV services, and new markets are protected under European Union law; in addition, it needs to protect its â¬3 billion ($3.9 billion) investment in the super high-speed network. German lawmakers have become slightly sympathetic to Deutsche Telekom, which has been bleeding fixed-line customers by the millions and consequentlyÂ forced to lower operating costs, largely through job cuts. Since its privatization, the operator has reduced its workforce from more than 250,000 at the peak to around 180,000 today. Over the years, Deutsche Telekom and the German government have clashed with Brussels on issues including the divestment of the operator's cable TV network and local-loop unbundling. In repeated warnings over the past several months, the Commission has said it will take whatever action is necessary to make Germany observe E.U. law. The issue could land in the European Court of Justice, which is responsible for handling E.U. treaty infringements. Court decisions can take years, however. Rival fixed-line operators, including ArcorÂ & Co., which is owned by the Vodafone Group, have made it clear they don't want the former monopoly telephone operator to be given any advantages to dominate another market as it has with the market for telephone service.