Deutsche Telekom Group – Page 26
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Network & Infrastructure
DT begins hiring for German fibre startup
Joint venture with Australia’s IFM begins recruitment of commercial and IT staff, as it seeks a slice of municipalities’ subsidised Gigabit roll outs.
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Elsewhere in Telekom Deutschland: flagship Cologne store reopened after renovations
TDE signs on dotted line for Adobe document management partnership; Kekz tunes into headphones distribution tie-up.
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Strategy & Change
Ship steadied at Deutsche Telekom UK
Much-diminished British unit says increasing app usage generating uptick in usage and revenue. Business assures over “long-term plan” for DT’s operational presence in UK.
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Products & Services
DT evangelises Polte to startup IoT device makers
IoT expert encourages hubraum community to test cellular-based location technology from US-based vendor. Maintains ‘OTT solution’ caters for many IoT use-cases. Polte survives DT’s rigorous testing process, which saw it preferred to cloud-based location technologies from Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, and Skyhook.
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Network & Infrastructure
DT’s Jacobfeuerborn gives ‘flying towers’ up to ten years to take off
DT-backed SPL is seeking Series B funding. Second edition of GSMA white paper on HAPS due to be published in early 2022. Jacobfeuerborn sees HAPS as the ‘missing link’ between terrestrial and satellite networks.
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Lebara departs for O2
TDE’s longstanding deal with ‘ethnic’ MVNO comes to an end. Migration of customers expected to commence in 2022.
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DT Q3 FY21 headline data: forward motion
Group juggernaut rolls on with all major dials heading upwards. Commercial strength seen in Germany and USA. CFO reassures on leverage following C-band splurge.
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Q3 FY21: Forager DT ‘hogs’ an extra billion in earnings
DT boosts full-year outlook for third time, adding €1bn in earnings and €500m in cash flow to its original FY21 forecasts. Already optimistic leadership becoming even more bullish as European markets recover, and T-Mobile US weathers competitive uptick while executing on Sprint integration. Results backdropped by M&A geared towards ...
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Telekom Deutschland: TDE ties with Trumpf
Elsewhere in Telekom Deutschland: TDE ties with Trumpf Source: Mathias Konrath / Unsplash Nick Read, Chief Executive (CEO) at Vodafone — taking a leaf, perhaps, out of the Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Telefónica full-fibre playbook — said he is open to joint ventures and other off-balance ...
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Group: Nemat hits double figures
Nemat into double figures at DT; DT boosts network with Cisco routers implementation.
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DT sets course for multi-CDN architecture
Bandeira senses “pieces are coming together” for implementation in 2022. Less optimistic about network readiness to deliver AR/VR apps and gaming, putting them in the “long-term horizon” of five years.
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Strategy & Change
Höttges wants to ride black swans in Poland
Deutsche Telekom CEO urges T-Mobile Poland to be “agile and resilient” to black swan events. Warns of increasing unpredictability across all DT markets.
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M&A
T-Systems sale speculation resurfaces
Reports in German media indicate DT could pare back ownership of — and exposure to — its long-challenged enterprise IT business. Suggestions point to a possible three-way deal in 2022.
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Network & Infrastructure
Höttges seeks to bring balance to future tower tie-up
Deutsche Telekom CEO seeks to lure tower partner with promise of hands-off approach to managing the business, allowing it to flourish “independently”. Picky operator unenthusiastic about approaches taken by rivals to tower extraction, including Vodafone’s Vantage Towers IPO earlier in the year.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT and SK Telecom’s Techmaker JV launches first product
Indoor Booster 5G goes on sale in Bavaria initially. SK Telecom completes reorganisation into SKT and SK Square.
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DT heads down under for fibre mate
Australia’s IFM named as Gigabit investment partner following long period of speculation. Move adds to TDE CEO Gopalan’s box of tricks as he seeks to pragmatically accelerate the Group’s slow-building fibre deployment. Startup JV embedded with various protective measures for DT, such as balance sheet deconsolidation, and long-term/standalone strategic ...
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Network & Infrastructure
DT backed Gaia-X project rocked by report of infighting
Politico report says project has lost focus. Some sources cite active role played by Microsoft. Research data shows continuing dominance of US cloud providers in Europe.
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Operations
Restructuring and legacy write-down hurt T-Systems UK
Deutsche Telekom’s UK enterprise IT unit records a loss on revenue slowdown. Figures also blunted by impairment of Managed Infrastructure unit.
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Financial & Performance
Hrvatski Telekom continues to eye regional M&A
Croatian operator sees an uptick in business during summer months, leading to raised forecasts. Management remains keen on building HT into a regional telco/IT business, saying dealmaking opportunities are being monitored.
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Network & Infrastructure
DT said to be closing in on partner for fibre JV
Report names Brookfield, CDPQ, and IFM as among potential investment partners. In the region of €6bn could be injected into Telekom Deutschland’s FTTP funding pot.