Deutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: spotlight on sovereignty, Mittelstand marketing, and fibre up-sell
Richard Agnew2025-09-22T09:49:00
The latest strategic and senior changes at Deutsche Telekom see the Group seeking to strengthen its status as all-pervading IT and comms player in Germany, arrowing in on data sovereignty and digitisation of the Mittelstand in the B2B space, and changing up its residential segment leadership in a bid to regain momentum on broadband.
This article includes:
- Themes: AI-enabled open RAN; Board reshuffle; Cloud services; CPaaS; Digitalisation; Discount brands; Enterprise solutions; Experience store; Fibre broadband; Financial services; Government services; Intelligent networks; IoT; Merger and acquisition (M&A); Mobile services; Retail strategy; Security; Sovereignty; Standards; Technology leadership; Transformation.
- Events: Appointment of Chief Sovereignty Officer; Chair transition at O-RAN Alliance; Congstar leadership change; Creation of Growth and Emerging Businesses role; Departure of Aleeta Willcuts; DT consumer leadership reset; Integration of Sprint retail; Magenta Telekom CFO exit; Metze departure; Open Dutch Fiber C-suite additions; Proximus Global CEO appointment; Retirement of Ulf Ewaldsson; Roger Solé CEO appointment; T-Systems strategy overhaul; Vodafone Germany finance appointment.
- People: Abdurazak Mudesir; Aleeta Willcuts; Andreas Schlegel; André Almeida; Aschwin Hollander; Axel Orbach; Babak Ghasemi; Callie Field; Christine Knackfuss-Nikolic; Claudia Nemat; Georg Schmitz-Axe; Joerg Zeddies; John Saw; Koen Cluistra; Mark Evans; Roger Solé; Seckin Arikan; Srini Gopalan; Thomas Lips; Ulf Ewaldsson; Wolfgang Metze.
- Geographic: Austria; Belgium; Brazil; Germany; Netherlands; USA.
- Organisations: Alloha Fibra; BICS; congstar; Deutsche Telekom (DT); Dieseko; Ericsson; Magenta Telekom; MCE Systems; miyon.ai; O-RAN Alliance; Open Dutch Fiber; Proximus Global; Route Mobile; Sprint; T-Mobile US; T-Systems; Telefónica; TelcoTitans; Telesign; Univision Communications; Vodafone Germany; VodafoneZiggo; Vonage; WeWork.