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Digital ReportsDeutsche Telekomwatch Report #133 - April 2024
Key stories include: FY23: cash flow becoming cash flood | DT makes Open Gateway API debut | Gopalan clashes with fibre rivals | Hrvatski Telekom stays on M&A watch | OTE to separate wireless infra
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Financial & PerformanceTen years into mission, Höttges’ DT is on cruise
FY23: Deutsche Telekom keeps growth going in landmark — but largely business-as-usual — twelve months for its long-serving CEO.
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Financial & PerformanceDeutsche Telekom FY23 highlights: momentum maintained
Strong, broad-based commercial performance sees DT meet all major financial targets for FY23. Group is no longer a one-trick, T-Mobile pony. Read more…
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Financial & PerformanceDeutsche Telekom FY23 spend: unfinished business on cost control
FY23 session sees ongoing evidence of Group leadership qualms in the area of cost control, amid macro and regulatory uncertainties. Read more…
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Financial & PerformanceDeutsche Telekom FY23 guidance: cash flow becoming a deluge
More jumps expected in revenue, earnings, and cash flow expected in FY24.
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Financial & PerformanceDeutsche Telekom’s Europe success story — under-appreciated, under-valued (and awkwardly off-narrative)
Exclusive analysis: quietly, the transatlantic behemoth that is Deutsche Telekom is countenancing a slight increase in capital outlay in its ten-territory Europe division, despite the remorseless downer its execs lay on the region’s lack of global investment appeal. Investors still value rump DT very poorly compared to T-Mobile US, however. Read more…
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Network & InfrastructureAustria: Magenta Telekom outspends rivals in 5G auction number three
Magenta Telekom leads the charge in Austria’s 5G spectrum auction, with ties to improved efficiency and business models.
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Public AffairsGermany’s fibre players question viability of Gigabit Strategy goals
Amidst the jostling at FTTH Conference in Berlin, altnets and incumbent Deutsche Glasfaser, GigaNetz and Telekom raise doubts that ‘fibre everywhere’ can be achieved by 2030, more upbeat on demand. Read more…
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PeopleDeutsche Telekom names new Global Business boss
Conrad Riedesel to lead go-to-market for DT’s networking and unified comms propositions outside of Group’s German core.
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Network & Infrastructure‘Stop the mud slinging’: DT’s Gopalan hammers German rivals’ fibre competition complaints
FTTH Conference 2024: Tensions spill over in Berlin on fibre leaders CEO panel, with competitors arguing over who and what is to blame for poor position in European league table on availability and penetration. Incumbent Srini Gopalan lambasts ‘rhetoric’, untruths, lying. Read much more…
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Financial & PerformanceDT hits sales targets in Germany but yet to earn FTTH bonus
Group’s home market business continues to outdo its key rivals on commercial and financial numbers, as well as comfortably hitting mid-term internal goals.
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Public AffairsUnion demands 12% wage hike at Deutsche Telekom
Negotiations on 2024 collective wage agreement likely to run until May, if not longer.
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Financial & PerformanceDeutsche Telekom hits milestone in Systems reset
Group’s challenged enterprise IT division finally got back into positive cash flow territory in FY23, following a major portfolio overhaul by ex-CEO Adel Al-Saleh.
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Network & InfrastructureT-Mobile US ‘planning fibre JV’ with EQT’s Lumos
Handelsblatt report suggests US NatCo plans to invest at least $1bn in new venture.
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Network & InfrastructureDeutsche Telekom wades into ‘trench warfare’ over fibre duct access
Group continues to refute accusations it is trying to hinder altnet fibre buildouts.
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Strategy & ChangeDeutsche Telekom’s API supremo outlines first steps of journey
Having debuted two network APIs in its home market, DT indicates a third is imminent.
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Partnerships & AlliancesHrvatski Telekom retains Netcracker as billing consolidation sherpa
Croatian operator to refresh revenue management tech through a new deal with Netcracker, updating on contract signed by pair back in 2017.
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Weekly BriefingsDeutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: MWC gives Europe one in the AI, ISS dispute escalates
Barcelona sees Group CEO Tim Höttges join European peers to reiterate calls for new thinking on regional telco development. New T-Systems CTO, Europe NatCos expansive on fibre, M&A…
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Products & ServicesDT to debut LEO-based sat services this year
Space comms startups OQ and Sateliot brought into the fold of DT’s network-of-networks platform strategy.
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Products & ServicesDT’s AI lead sees chatbots becoming user support ‘experts’
Powered by newly-developed large language model platform, operator plans to give Frag Magenta AI assistant a much freer role in terms of interacting with customers and internal functions, as well as extending the bot across its European footprint, says Group AI lead.