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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: congstar stamps its marque
A busy few days on the marketing front at DT as Greece’s OTE firms up a long-anticipated move closer to central branding, and figures from Germany’s congstar suggest DT’s multi-brand portfolio is delivering commercial gains in a challenging environment. Read more…
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Financial & Performance
DT FY24 Guidance: Group remains in the flow
FY24: More jumps expected in revenue, earnings, and cash flow during FY25, and beyond.
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Financial & Performance
DT FY24 Spend: light-touch regulation
FY24: DT’s differing position and priorities to European rivals sees regional capex remain elevated.
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Financial & Performance
DT FY24 Headlines: full forward movement
FY24: Commercial strength across regions enables DT to meet all major financial targets for year.
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Financial & Performance
Germany’s sparring telcos are yet to lay a glove on DT
FY24: Telekom Deutschland keeps a firm grip on user acquisition and retention numbers despite Germany’s emergence as a hotbed of tariff competition and promotional offers over the past year or more.
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Financial & Performance
DT highlights T-Systems’ ‘relevance’ as B2B telco clouds gather
FY24: Group says long-challenged enterprise IT division is fit-for-purpose and properly aligned to meet B2B client demand in an ever-murkier macro environment.
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Financial & Performance
DT quietly loosens purse strings in Europe, despite qualms
FY24: Buoyed by competitive wins and progress on cost extraction, DT’s leadership has freed managers to up spend in Europe this year and next.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: political tremors and quake alerts
As one part of DT flags experiments with fibre-based earthquake monitoring, ructions of a different kind will be on the minds of Group leadership as elections loom and geopolitical heat rises. Read more…
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: T-Mobile’s looking up
Un-Carrier continues to build out its growth platform as it reports FY24 figures, mooting a wider play in satcomms and assuring over the strength of its prepaid business. Read more…
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: CEO gets back in the Hött seat
DT’s Board gets a major agenda item for 2025 sorted, tieing down the operator’s long-serving Chief Executive to a ‘continuity’-delivering contract extension. In parallel move, Germany boss Srini Gopalan is to head over to T-Mobile US to lead operations overhaul. Read more…
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: US spends, Europe saves
A roundup of turn-of-year news from Deutsche Telekom, with another tale of DT’s Atlantic divide when it comes to willingness to spend. As cash-rich T-Mobile US continues an acquisition spree, to bolster its growth platform, new data puts the spotlight back onto the Group’s slow shift towards next-gen wireline infra in Germany and other European markets. Read more…
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Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: API New Year, T-Wholesale reorg, BNetzA puzzler
Group flags first of its traditional start-of-year organisational tweaks with news it is to consolidate its domestic and international wholesale divisions. Meanwhile, the exec tasked with setting up telco platform venture Aduna is named. Read more…
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Weekly Briefings
The Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: Constellations and consternation
New-style satcomms ventures take a step forward on both sides of the Atlantic, with IRIS² contracts now signed and T-Mobile Starlink service opening for business.
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Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: T-Mobile quells urge to converge
Latest from DT, including: Group remains challenged by task of finding fixed-line investment balance in ‘T-Mobile’ markets where it is expanding beyond wireless.
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Weekly Briefings
The Deutsche Telekomwatch Briefing: no macro alarms, yet
Reporting Q3 numbers, DT execs delight in strong performance of Europe-side businesses and calm concerns over any bumps from political and economic developments in Germany and the USA.
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Financial & Performance
Guidance: DT doubles up on EU-US earnings
Q3 FY24: Jointly-driven earnings guidance uplift gives DT a welcome chance to underline how its business is not just about T-Mobile US.
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Financial & Performance
In-depth: DT’s show of strength creates analyst anxiety
Q3 FY24: DT continues to leave European rivals behind with strong growth throughout P&L and across geographies, creating apparent signs of concern among sector stakeholders.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: Telco Cloud heads east
Group lays out operational and commercial ambitions based on expansion of network of cloudified network core hubs across Europe.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: Group goes fishing with Euro tower chips
DT wraps up central and eastern European tower assets as a deal sweetener, as it seeks to revive regional infra consolidation hopes.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: refreshed T.Capital goes nuclear
Anticipated refresh of the Group’s tech ecosystem strategy sees org changes within T-Systems and Group Development.