Deutsche Telekom Deals & M&A
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M&A
T-Mobile bulks up T-Ads with $600m Vistar buy
T-Mobile US doubles down on growing advertising business with acquisition of digital-out-of-home ad tech specialist Vistar Media for $600m.
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M&A
4iG’s Vodafone buy under fire amid political scrutiny of state role
Hungarian opposition Socialist Party accuses Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government of negligent mismanagement of public funds during the acquisition of Vodafone Hungary by 4iG and state-owned holding company Cornivus.
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M&A
OTE receives a tax hit on way out of Romanian exit door
Local tax authority lands Telekom Romania Mobile with a €33.5m charge it says stems from past VAT and corporate income tax errors.
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Network & Infrastructure
DT’s dealmaker-in-chief still harbours hopes of creating European infra giant
German operator’s Head of Group Development insists large-scale consolidation is coming — and says it is packaging up central and eastern European assets, plus targeting significant earnings growth in Germany and Austria, to improve DT’s bargaining power.
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People
DT picks in-house exec to lead new €2bn tech M&A fund
Telekom Strategy Consulting’s Julia Kainz to switch to DT’s Group Development division, with responsibility for seeking out high-tech growth acquisitions.
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Premium
T.Capital: a dip into DT’s growing tech funding pool
TelcoTitans provides a rundown on the make-up and back story of T.Capital, DT’s evolving and expanding in-house stable of tech investments.
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People
T-Mobile hands CFO a fresh deal ahead of M&A integration challenge
Peter Osvaldik given a pay rise as T-Mobile seeks consistency of leadership ahead of execution challenges accompanying pending fibre and wireless buyouts.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: three’s a crowd at BT
Future of DT’s relationship with UK incumbent comes back into the public eye after Bharti entrance into major shareholder grouping, plus buildout of Slim family stake.
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Financial & Performance
DT re-opens to European M&A ahead of strategy refresh
Q2 FY24: Regional giant suggests all the deal-making action will not just focus on its dominant, fast-growing American business when it lays out a new medium-term strategy in a few weeks’ time…
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Financial & Performance
T-Mobile has ‘little appetite’ for further fibre deals, for now
CEO Mike Sievert says T‑Mobile remains open minded but indicates that there are no current plans to bulk up fibre diet.
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Financial & Performance
Hrvatski Telekom accelerates fibre build amid strong H1
Croatian operator ups FY24 capex guidance on back of faster than expected revenue growth in first six months of the year, and indicates flow of fibre infra add-ons is accelerating.
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M&A
T-Mobile spends $5bn to make Metronet its fibre buy number-two
Tie-up with KKR sees NatCo add two million homes to its expanding fixed services footprint, as well as securing a residential customer add-on.
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M&A
Magyar Telekom becomes latest DT unit to assess tower carve-out
Hungarian NatCo evaluating potential opportunities and setbacks linked to shifting tower ownership into separate entity, following trend seen both inside and Deutsche Telekom’s operations and beyond.
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M&A
Hrvatski Telekom considering field services re-meld
Croatian operator initiates assessment of potential efficiency benefits from re-absorption of HT Servisi site maintenance and construction subsidiary.
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M&A
Romania’s competition body runs rule over OTE’s latest exit plan
Competition Council says it has begun process of assessing antitrust implications of convoluted joint buyout by Clever Media and Digi Romania, which carries OTE’s hopes for an exit from local telecoms market.
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Public Affairs
EU trains regulatory spotlight on e& over CEE expansion plans
European Commission opens probe into UAE‑based operator’s planned PPF transaction amid “alleged subsidies” concerns.
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Network & Infrastructure
T-Mobile Poland piggybacks its way to ten million-home fibre footprint
Deutsche Telekom’s Polish business remains happy to pursue a partnerships-led approach to broadband and converged services expansion, activating deal with Iliad-InfraVia venture Polski Światłowód Otwarty.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: shoring up the home finances
Both sides of RoI equation in spotlight in key arena of German fixed broadband, as DT re-assesses market trends and continues search for ways to trim fibre rollout budget.
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M&A
German state trims Deutsche Telekom stake to 27.8%
Government intends to invest funds raised from DT share sale in Germany’s railways.
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Network & Infrastructure
Hrvatski Telekom assessing carve-out of wireless infra
Croatian operator becomes second Deutsche Telekom business in recent weeks to flag interest in a tower spin-off, after Greece’s OTE.