All Timotheus Höttges articles – Page 5
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Weekly BriefingsTelefónicawatch Weekly: Shareholder dance continues with growing Spanish flavour; O2 presses on with 5G experiments
Spanish banking foundation pops up as Telefónica top shareholder, as Spanish government seperately said to be seeking spot on board as it builds its own national interest stake. Elsewhere: O2 gets 5G projects on the move; refinancing in Peru; VM O2 resumes digital landline project…
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Network & InfrastructureDeutsche Telekom boss decries 1&1 5G network as ‘huge white spot’
Timotheus Höttges takes another swipe at rival during AGM speech.
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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 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’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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Public AffairsTelefónica’s Rao adds to calls for German auction rethink
O2 Germany’s CTIO helps maintain pressure as BNetzA considers next move on spectrum rights.
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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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Network & InfrastructureGreece’s OTE exploring tower spin-off
National telco wants to trim down the costs of managing wireless infra by creation of a dedicated (but 100%-owned) subsidiary.
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EventwatchAWS: the buzz at MWC is the sound of getting things done
Another full-on Mobile World Congress proved itself to be about far more than just talk as we saw operators and their partners coming together with exciting proofs that the sector is ready to reap the benefits of all the intense network and ecosystem investment. Generative AI was a bright thread ...
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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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Weekly BriefingsVodafonewatch Weekly: Della Valle calls for EU rethink as Group begins Italy retreat
Weekly Briefing: Vodafone CEO looks likely to get rationalisation wish granted as Italian escape nears, days after she presented a united front at MWC with European peers to demand change on the continent. Other developments showcased in Barcelona include an XR headset demo and open API momentum…
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Public Affairs“Who the hell is giving these companies money?” — Höttges warns of investment crisis as big four unite
In a “historic” coming together of the heads of Europe’s four biggest operators, calls were made for changes in regulation, spectrum, and merger policy to support future investment. The EC appears open to change on all fronts, but not always as the operators wish.
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Weekly BriefingsDeutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: FY23 results, Europe NatCo CEOs, logo loggerhead, Mavenir wins
Dispute with Telefónica over ‘T’ logo design rumbles on. First look at FY23 results shows strengthening cross-Atlantic business platform, but longlist of operational and regulatory challenges ahead of strategy refresh…
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Network & InfrastructureETNO in existential crisis as Europe weighs response to global business threats
ETNO’s recent State of Digital Communications report portrayed the big beasts of European telecoms as open to change, but hamstrung by regulation and pondering long-term impact of letting infrastructure go.
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Weekly BriefingsDeutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: T-Mo seeks ways to keep Big Mo
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly Briefing: T-Mobile US kicks off FY23 reporting from around the Deutsche Telekom world, and shrugs off handset sales slowdown to post further big growth in earnings and cash flow. And much more…
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PeopleDeutsche Telekom goes strategic with new BT board rep
DT Chief Operating Officer Raphael Kübler to join BT boardroom to oversee stake and keep an eye on transformation agenda.
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MarketingDeutsche Telekom’s new brand sharpens identity down to a ‘T’
DT has reportedly deliberated the adoption of a more generic Group brand.
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Public AffairsTelefónica’s Álvarez-Pallete takes soapbox to Davos, repeats call for EU refresh
Telefónica’s CEO says deregulation and investment “agenda” needed to drive innovation and increase EU telcos’ competitiveness. Comments come hot on the heels of similar messaging from other industry execs. Entrance of SEPI and stc as Group shareholders not a distraction from new three-year strategy…
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MarketingStudy says Deutsche Telekom is now world’s most valuable telecoms brand
Brand Finance places Group ninth overall across global businesses.