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…
Europe’s only world-scale telco puts AI-led cost reduction and efficiency at heart of refreshed medium-term strategy, with CEO Tim Höttges set to oversee wide-scale deployment of the tech personally.
Group’s Head of Technology & Innovation emphasises continuation of key Group strategies such as product scaling, automation, and AI.
Regional CEO Dominique Leroy sets more bullish goals for the operator’s next strategic cycle compared to previous, more modest ambitions.
Cost burden and missed B2B opportunities at top of agenda at Capital Markets Day.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges sees things “going into our favour” at BT as German operator’s ‘biggest mistake’ begins to turn around and new international shareholders target the operator.
DT regional boss Dominique Leroy rules out an expansion into fibre build in Poland, pointing to how local business has gained a huge new targetable base of customers through third-party tie-ups.
German operator’s Head of Group Development insists large-scale consolidation is coming — and says it is packaging up central and eastern European assets, plus targeting significant earnings growth in Germany and Austria, to improve DT’s bargaining power.
New ‘Project Xcalibur’ initiative to see DT plough investments into data centre specialists and tap into anticipated AI-led boom.
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Key stories include: Ad venture Utiq to tick US box | DT builds beyond ORAN Town | Hungary: new tech phase started | Poland: 10m FTTH homes hit | Sievert sticks to wireline Plan A
Key stories include: TDE gap with peers prompts ‘stability’ query | Telco Cloud extension targets hyphers | BuyIn buys into AI with custom apps | Cablecos dig in to limit tenant law loss | Greece puts skids on FTTH build
Key stories include: CMD 2024: Group aims high on AI | DT still keen on EU-wide tower tie-up | Tech division asked for €1bn value-add | API boss chases wider telco buy-in | Brakes applied on German fibre build
Contracts belatedly tied up with SpaceRISE consortium, which features Orange and Deutsche Telekom, and will build and operate planned regional satellite network.
T-Mobile Poland activates broadband services on Vectra Group network, taking its premises reach into eight figure territory.
Brussels raises “serious doubts” about the legality of Hungary’s plans to regulate wholesale broadband access, leaving telcos in limbo.
New tech and finance chiefs to join Hungarian incumbent in early-2025, with Current CTIO Lubor Zatko heading into a new role within Deutsche Telekom.
Birgit Bohle, Board Member for Human Resources and Legal Affairs at Deutsche Telekom, has outlined plans for a “refresh” of the Group’s leadership team.
Telekom Strategy Consulting’s Julia Kainz to switch to DT’s Group Development division, with responsibility for seeking out high-tech growth acquisitions.
