Deutsche Telekom backing Web-calling rival Jajah
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Deutsche Telekom AG said on  Monday the company is backing Web telephone-calling start-up  Jajah, embracing a technology that undercuts rates for the  German telecommunication giant&#39;s established long-distance and  mobile phone businesses.
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T-Mobile, the mobile arm of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, has beaten rival Vodafone in the battle to win the marketing rights for Apple&#39;s iPhone in Germany, the regional daily Rheinische Post reported on Wednesday.
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Germany s government will sell shares in Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe s largest phone company, worth as much as 3 billion euros ($3.7 billion). KfW Group, a German state-owned development bank, will also sell as ...
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BONN, Germany -- On Saturday, Deutsche Telekom&#39;s Supervisory Board approved a merger plan by the Board of Management. One day later, T-Online&#39;s Supervisory Board consented to the offer of merger negotiations.
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Singapore Telecommunications has emerged as the front-runner to acquire a significant stake in Warid, one of Pakistan&#39;s leading mobile phone operators, according to people familiar with the situation.
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(InfoWorld) - Raketu Communications will add two new mobile phone features to its integrated communications, entertainment, and social networking service in a move to attract consumers on the go. Next week, Raketu will introduce a new domain, www.raketu.mobi, which will allow mobile phone users to more easily navigate the Raketu site and use services such as the company's RakWeb service launched earlier this week, said CEO Greg Parker in an interview. By the end of the month, the company intends to launch a new mobile phone version of the Raketu application, which users can install on their phones to make VoIP calls, send text messages, chat, and more, Parker said. Raketu, which is based in New York, is trying to carve out a niche in the highly competitive market for Web-based services by offering an integrated communications, online entertainment, and social networking service that can be used on both desktop PCs and mobile phones. "We have a tightly integrated package of services that we believe is unique and attractive to consumers," Parker said. Many rival Internet companies tend to focus on one service, such as VoIP or online entertainment, but not on three as Raketu does, he added. The company offers a peer-to-peer VoIP service similar to Skype's, a unit of eBay. Users who have dial-up or broadband connections and have installed the Raketu application can make free VoIP calls to each other as well as to landline and mobile users in 42 countries, paying a low fee for calls outside these areas. The Raketu application also allows users to view streamed IPTV (Internet Protocol television) and VOD (video on demand) channels, as well as news and information feeds. Text messaging, IM, and podcasts are among several additional features. The "fully integrated" service, Parker said, allows to view an IPTV or VOD stream and chat via IM or VoIP at the same time. Fringland (Fring)Â and Jajah, which already offer mobile phone VoIP service, provide no online entertainment or social networking services. The new RakWeb application can be used without installing software on a computer. Users have access to Raketu services such as VoIP, e-mail, IM, and IPTV, and can make call-back calls, linking, for instance, two mobile phones. Raketu calls between two mobile phones in Germany, for instance, cost around $0.30 per minute for the person who initiates the call. Raketu calls between a phone in Germany and one in the U.S. cost $0.15 per minute. If outside their home market, however, users have to pay a roaming fee to initiate or receive a call. For comparison, the German subsidiary of Vodafone Group charges â¬0.75 ($1.00) to both initiate and receive a roaming call, with each minute billed according to the customer's tariff package. The minute fee, depending on the package, can range from â¬0.06 to around â¬0.30 for contract customers and â¬0.59 for prepaid customers.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Nokia Oyj, the world&#39;s biggest maker of mobile phones, and Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe&#39;s third-largest semiconductor maker, will next year test a system in Germany allowing people to pay for bus fares using handsets.
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EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou is in talks with Deutsche Telekom to launch cut-rate mobile telephone service in Germany, he has told daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.
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Deutsche Telekom plans to buy back its internet business T-Online, four years after floating it on the stock market at the height of the dotcom boom.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Commission asked the German regulatory authority, the Federal Network Agency, Monday to do more to ensure a level playing field in the market for high-speed optical fiber connections to the home or office. It is asking the regulator to help secure adequate access to the market for competitors to Deutsche Telekom AG. The Commission -- the executive and regulatory branch of the European Union -- also asked the national regulator to complete its market analysis for access to the new super fast networks, dubbed next-generation networks (NGNs). "The Commission is keen to ensure that NGNs can be deployed and made accessible in a consistent and transparent manner across Europe," said Viviane Reding, EU telecom commissioner. "It is vital that we ensure effective competition and the legal certainty necessary for all market players to invest in new products and services that will benefit consumers." In May the Federal Network Agency notified the Commission of rules designed to force Deutsche Telekom to grant competitors access to its copper fixed telephone network. As Deutsche Telekom is upgrading its network by rolling out optical fibre-based connections, these rules also apply during the transition to the new infrastructure. In a letter sent to the national regulator Monday, the Commission did not challenge its market definition of local loop unbundling but raised a number of issues on regulatory remedies. Having examined the rules, the Commission said they were a step in the right direction but ultimately they have failed to ensure fair competition. "There are more issues to be tackled, we want more remedies," said Martin Selmayr, a Commission spokesman in charge of telecom-related issues, at a press conference Monday. The rollout of fiber closer to the customers, normally to the street cabinets, enables the provision of high bandwidth services but it raises important issues regarding the position of alternative operators that currently benefit from access obligations of Deutsche Telekom's existing networks. As alternative operators in Germany roll out their own infrastructure to local exchanges, these operators now need an economic way of reaching the new access points provided in street cabinets. The Commission is asking the German telecom regulator to guarantee that access to Deutsche Telekom's existing copper network by its competitors remains efficient during the rollout of NGNs. In the new networks, the number of access points required by an alternative operator will be many times higher than that for the traditional fixed telephony network. In many cases there would no longer be a business case for alternative operators to extend their network down to the street cabinets, the Commission said. Therefore, the Commission stresses the importance of ensuring appropriate alternative access solutions as NGNs are deployed. The Commission can't force the national regulator to take action but its opinion cannot be ignored, Selmayr said. At the same time, the deployment of NGNs raises questions as to how competitors may continue benefiting from current access obligations, in the future, while maintaining incentives to invest for both the incumbent and new entrants. Deutsche Telekom has begun delivering IP (Internet Protocol) services such as telephony, television and Internet access over VDSL (Very high bit rate DSL) to customers in some German cities. It has asked the regulator to exempt its VDSL service from a requirement that it lease its infrastructure to competitors on reasonable terms, claiming that without the exclusive right to use the infrastructure, it cannot fund the necessary investment.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Telekom Malaysia Bhd. (4863.KU) has begun to spread its wings overseas, but it will be awhile before its Indian and Indonesian investments begin to pay off in substantially stronger earnings.
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Deutsche Telekom, Europe&#39;s largest phone company, will pay a dividend of 0.62 euros per share for 2004, soundly beating forecasts with its first payout after two years of focused debt cuts.
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BONN: Deutsche Telekom is bidding â¬2.9 bn for the 26% it does not own in T-Online International, pulling the internet service back into the fold four years after selling stock to the public.
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FRANKFURT: Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW), the state owned bank that the German government uses as a vehicle for privatisation, is selling via the open market a stake of around seven percent in telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom.
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The wireless service provider seeks growth in emerging markets.
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Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe&#39;s largest phone company, plans to buy out investors in its T-Online Internet division in a transaction worth about 2.9 billion euros ($3.
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Germany's music industry has switched efforts to sell music over the Internet to Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) Web unit T-Online (TOIGn.DE) from a previous collaboration with another Telekom division, it was announced on Monday.