Germans to pay TV fee for online PCs, cell phones
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Germany plans to introduce a monthly broadcast charge next year for homes and businesses that have an Internet-connected computer and don't already pay registration fees for television and radio service. One business association has called it "a complete rip-off."ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Congster, nuovo marchio di T-Online International, divisione di Deutsche Telekom (Germania), ideato per lÂ´internet a basso costo si presenta sul mercato con unÂ´ offerta molto competitiva: un abbonamento ADSL a soli 3,99 euro al mese.
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch  has returned to the German TV market by buying a near-15  percent stake in the country's largest pay-TV broadcaster,  Premiere, for 287 million euros ($421.6 million).
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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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European Union ministers adopted on  Thursday rules that will slash the price of making cell phone  calls abroad in the 27-member bloc, after a year of wrangling  and heated debate, the EU&#39;s German presidency said.
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Deutsche Telekom is ready to make acquisitions in the mobile communications sector, and could finance them by selling non-core activities such as Club Internet in France, the head of the German telecoms giant said Thursday.
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BERLIN -- Sebastian from Germany is looking for a high definition (HD) television set, IT engineer Armin is after a media-centre computer, software developer Jens wants a digital photoframe, and Italian civil servant Anna a new phone.
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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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The EU agrees on new rules for TV and on-demand internet video, allowing more advertising.
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Europeans are a step closer to having television on their mobile phones: Two groups of companies said they would push forward with consumer trials and establish a standard for the technology.
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German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is to be sold to a consortium of US and European private equity firms.
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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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(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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A China Telecommunications Group Corp. (China Telecom) subsidiary in Jiangsu province and Hewlett-Packard Co. are offering customers a desktop computer with broadband Internet access for 198 renminbi, or US$26, per month.
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German Economy Minister Michael Glos called on Wednesday for a Europe-wide regulation on the so-called &quot;roaming fees&quot; charged by mobile telecom operators for telephone calls made in a foreign country.
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T-Online International, divisione di Deutsche Telekom (Germania), ha lanciato Congster, un nuovo marchio ideato per l&#39;internet a basso costo. Congster parte subito con un&#39; offerta molto competitiva. Un abbonamento ADSL a soli 3,99 euro al mese.
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Germany is selling a E4.45 billion (R36.12 billion) stake in Deutsche Telekom, making it the fourth European government to sell state assets in the past six weeks