Deutsche Telekom invests in Skype rival
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Media & professional: Deutsche Telekom is investing $20m in hotly tipped internet telephony startup Jajah.com.
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Deutsche Telekom backs net phone startup Jajah - one of the first major phone firms to support such technology.
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Skype launched a version of its Internet telephony service for users of Apple computers on Tuesday, as it battles a growing number of competitors offering voice-over-IP (VoIP) products.
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The European Commission said Monday it was suing Germany over a law allowing Deutsche Telekom AG to keep rivals off its high-speed Internet networks.
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EUROPE&#39;S biggest phone company, Deutsche Telekom, has offered to buy out investors in its T-Online International internet division for about E3 billion ($5 billion) to revive growth at its fixed-line business.
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EBay  division Skype and mobile  phone group 3 said on Monday they have launched a mobile  handset that allows users to access internet calls provider  Skype while on the move.
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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 euro2.9 billion (US&#36;3.6 billion).
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FRANKFURT, Oct 9  - Germany&#39;s Deutsche Telekom is to reintegrate its Internet arm T-Online, Europe&#39;s largest Internet provider, via a swap for Telekom shares and a share buyback offer, the company said Saturday.
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German state banking group KfW is selling up to 4 billion euros (2.8 billion pounds) worth of shares in Deutsche Telekom, continuing the privatisation of the German phone operator.
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VoIP provider Skype has teamed up with Siemens Communications to offer cordless phones in a move that gives Skype users the ability to drop their headsets and use Siemens phones for free Web telephoning.
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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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Internet telephony firm Skype today promised free wireless voice calls for millions of European surfers via a version of its software for the recently launched Siemens Gigaset DECT cordless phones.
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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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The founders of Skype, an online  telephone business sold last year to eBay Inc. for $2.6  billion, are testing a broadband television service for  computer screens, the founders' spokesman said on Monday.
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German police have long expressed interest in having surveillance tools that could crack Skype, but leaked documents seem to indicate that thanks to specially commissioned malware, they do indeed have ways of making your VoIP talk.
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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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Nokia, the world&#39;s top mobile phone  maker, said on Wednesday it has made Skype telephone services  available on the Nokia N800 Internet tablet.