DT Financial & Performance – Page 12
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Deutsche Telekom Q1 FY20 headlines: Trans-Atlantic platform coming together
Slow-and-steady recovery continues in Europe, at least ahead of lockdown. Major boost as broadband momentum regained in Germany.
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Deutsche Telekom Q1/FY20 first take: only mild symptoms, so far
Upbeat executives comfortable enough to keep guidance and dividend unchanged, despite some COVID-19 impact on B2B projects and consumer sales.
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Financial & Performance
TMUS’ Sievert: AT&T and Verizon privately fought Sprint merger
Q1 call sees new CEO Sievert riff on familiar Legere-era themes, taking aim at rival duo on pricing and service. COVID-19 impact still being assessed, but mixed. TMUS responds with operational “re-evaluation” but cites commercial upside too. Sprint merger: buying economies being accelerated, brands to be melded to support ...
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Deutsche Telekom’s Q4 FY19: hyped-up Höttges preps master plan update
FY19 sees Group remain on track with short- and medium-term targets. European businesses regaining form. DT now entering new era after supercharging US presence through Sprint merger. COVID-19 outbreak adds to sense of a watershed. Ex-CFO Dannenfeldt trolled over cost savings miss.
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Deutsche Telekom’s European division continues to improve, within limitations
CEO Gopalan given till 2024 to progress business revival plan. DT remains cautious, though, with brake held on spend. Outgoing M&A still on agenda, to help turnaround.
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Efficiency now name-of-game in German FTTP rollout
Average cost-per-premises passed dips below €1,000, with further efficiencies anticipated. Agile IT and advance fibre planning supporting an accelerated rollout and streamlined back-office processes. Höttges ready and willing to buy wholesale and collaborate to build fibre momentum with progress on EWE and Stuttgart partnerships flagged.
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Al-Saleh retained for next phase of T-Sys reboot
CEO gets a two-year extension as results hold up during overhaul. Deal positions 2022 as target year for emergence of revamped T-Sys. Cash flow production remains the big unticked box. DT confirms coming extraction of division’s network activities.
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Buoyant T-Mobile moves into next chapter
Q4 results draw line under pre-Sprint era, continue rapid, Un-Carrier-led growth. American NatCo now producing more revenue than Group’s other three main segments added together. Sprint merger hastily wrapped up as COVID-19 crisis escalates. DT leadership joy evident as transaction goes through with improved terms and seemingly better-than-expected ...
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Vodafone promotions put Gigabit ball back in Telekom Deutschland’s court
Slowdown in Telekom Deutschland broadband user growth evidently concerning leadership and stakeholders. Focus increases on whether FTTP plans need a rethink, to strengthen position.
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Suppliers & SCM
Oracle to supply public cloud infrastructure for T-Mobile US
TMUS engaged Oracle to supply it with public cloud infrastructure to support its device financing offerings.
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SDS partners with unnamed “Big Four” auditor
Software Daten Service (SDS) — a wholly-owned subsidiary of T-Systems, focused on financial services IT — partnered with an unnamed “Big Four” auditor.
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Deutsche Telekom Trust pulls away from Ströer SE & Co
Deutsche Telekom Trust (DT Trust), an asset manager for DT’s corporate pension schemes, reduced its stake in outdoor advertising company Ströer SE & Co from 11.3% to 10.1%, reinvesting the proceedings of the sale into other trust assets.
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Deutsche Telekom expands scope of B2B reorg
Acronyms scrambled again as Group leadership pushes through B2B tidy-up. Leadership targets political battles between TDE and T-Sys. DT’s B2B focus remains somewhat fragmented.
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T-Mobile, Sprint merger impact on Ericsson
T-Mobile US suppliers note softness from Sprint merger delays.
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Customers Bancorp may pull rug from under T-Mobile MONEY
T-Mobile US partner Customers Bancorp provided further signals of a coming sale of its BankMobile digital division, which underpins the T-Mobile MONEY digital banking service launched by the NatCo in mid-2019.
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Products & Services
T-Mobile MONEY shows positive early results
TMUS partner Customers Bancorp claimed T-Mobile MONEY, the digital banking service launched by the NatCo in mid-2019, was off to a good start.
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T-Mobile US partner Quibi raises another $400m
TMUS mobile video partner Quibi raised another $400m in its latest round of investment. It also disclosed further details of the deal it announced with TMUS in late-2019.
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Deutsche Telekom gets Sprint stress headache, takes dividend pill
Group boasts of “record” Q3 results, but numbers shadowed by strategic and operational challenges. Dividend trimmed to keep spend taps flowing and offset US and balance sheet pressures. Capex guidance raised. German broadband “softness” tackled. Leadership looks forward to All-IP completion for German go-to-market. Romanian difficulties continue: “all possibilities” ...
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T-Systems retains UK outpost, despite challenges
Descent into loss blamed on contract and organisational restructuring. Questions pervade over management’s true interest in UK market.
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Axiros enlisted for T-Mobile’s push on home front
Connected-home angle to TMPL’s fibre broadband expansion drive.