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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(InfoWorld) - After rolling out push e-mail service to its enterprise customers, T-Mobile International now plans to extend the offering to the consumer market, in addition to launching a number of new "community" services. The consumer push e-mail service was one of several announcements T-Mobile International CEO Hamid Akhavan made Tuesday during a news conference at theÂ 3GSM World CongressÂ in Barcelona. "We plan a new service that will push e-mail to consumers; this could become a very huge market," Akhavan said. As T-Mobile rolls out new social networking services such as myFaves in the U.S., the operator also plans new "community" pricing plans. With myFaves, for instance, customers can establish a community of up to five people who receive a discounted rate for voice calls, text messages, and more. User-generated content, such as photos and videos, is another social networking service already generating lots of buzz, according to Akhavan. "It's still early days for social networking services over mobile networks but they will drive growth," he said. "I believe the mobile Internet will have a bigger impact than the Internet itself." The company is looking at theÂ new Windows Mobile 6.0. "I don't know yet if our Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets can support 6.0," he said. "If so and if we can use our Web site to allow customers to download the new operating system, then maybe this will be a possibility. I guess the answer is if we can upgrade easily, then yes." T-Mobile meanwhile lowered international roaming fees by 20 percent last year, with further reductions in the pipeline. Because roaming isn't a unilateral business, partner operators will also need to agree to changes, Akhavan said. Enterprises have been lobbying the European Commission for years to pressure European mobile operators intoÂ lowering roaming fees. T-Mobile is moving ahead on its 3G (third-generation) rollout in the U.S., according to Akhavan. He handed the microphone to Ray Nevelle, in charge of the U.S. deployment, who said U.S. customers can expect 3G service this year. Akhavan said he wasn't concerned about the threat of municipality Wi-Fi networks. Users want quality service, "which requires networking expertise -- this is something municipalities don't have," he said. "Governments, you may recall, used to run telecom networks and then decided to get out of that business."
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German incumbent telco Deutsche Telekom announced over the weekend it is to begin taking its internet division, T-Online, back entirely within the mother corporation.
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Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe&#39;s largest telecommunications company, has moved to strengthen its ability to provide bundled voice, data and video services by making an offer to buy back the shares of its Internet subsidiary that it doesn&#39;t already own.
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Brussels says Deutsche Telekom should open its advanced high-speed internet network to competitors.
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German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom and its Internet arm T-Online said they had agreed the terms of the proposed share swap that would see the Internet services provider delisted from the stock exchange and reintegrated into Deutsche Telekom.
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IP within 3G within IP, over Ethernet T-Mobile has completed German trials using ADSL to backhaul data from 3G base stations by encapsulating HSDPA data in the IP stream. In doing so it has proven the technology is viable for the next generation of mobile services.â¦
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Jajah completes big name backer roster Jajah, the Austro-Californian VoIP outfit we profiled last week, has announced that the mystery second investor in its third funding round is Deutsche Telekom (DT).â¦
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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.
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This is a near perfect solution for Internet users in Germany. With a lot of competition for subscribers, T-Online customers can have a DSL line for â¬3.99 per month.
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T-Online, Deutsche Telekom's majority owned Internet service provider, said it was lifting its forecast for full-year core earnings after reporting better-than-expected results.
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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.
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Stake in Deutsche Telekom AG may be sold by Germany for â¬4.45 billion ($5.5 billion) as EU faces finance deficits and seeks for the ways to resolve the problem.
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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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IT APPEARS THAT Germany&#39;s T-Mobile has broken ranks and decided to test a complimentary IP based wireless technology,Flash-OFDM,in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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A consortium called TIS, which comprises German electronics giant Siemens, Deutsche Telekom's IT unit T-Systems and US computer giant IBM, is to make a bid to overhaul the German army's or Bundeswehr's IT infrastructures.
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The online travel company, owned by Microsoft before it was spun into a public company in 1999, is to become - once again â- Bellevue-based company.