DT Venturing
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M&A
OTE receives a tax hit on way out of Romanian exit door
Local tax authority lands Telekom Romania Mobile with a €33.5m charge it says stems from past VAT and corporate income tax errors.
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Venturing & Investments
DT targets data centre assets via new investment push
New ‘Project Xcalibur’ initiative to see DT plough investments into data centre specialists and tap into anticipated AI-led boom.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom tackles consumer app downtime via Dynatrace tie-up
Deployment of US analytics vendor’s tech said to have helped smooth challenges stemming from major digital platform revamp.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT wants more telcos to join ‘non-exclusive’ API club
Network X: German group’s API supremo Peter Arbitter keen for broader support for new aggregator business in bid to extend proposition beyond current twelve-telco membership.
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Venturing & Investments
Deutsche Telekom plugs into nuclear fusion tech startup
Group’s T.Capital arm invests in Germany-based Marvel Fusion, which aims to have a nuclear fusion plant up and running within the next decade.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Meta ends peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom in Germany
War of words erupts between DT and Meta in the dispute over who should pay for data traffic.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Eyebrows raised as Deutsche Telekom joins association of fibre rivals
Deutsche Telekom has become a member of fibre access association BUGLAS, but not everyone is happy about it.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom IoT taps into Bridge Alliance for APAC access
Group continues efforts to make T‑IoT the “one-stop shop” for global IoT coverage.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT runs rule over South Korean B2B tech
Ahead of strategy refresh, Group’s Europe B2B boss travels to east Asian market for meetings with innovators in enterprise tech, including web giant Naver and close partner SKT.
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M&A
T-Mobile spends $5bn to make Metronet its fibre buy number-two
Tie-up with KKR sees NatCo add two million homes to its expanding fixed services footprint, as well as securing a residential customer add-on.
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M&A
Magyar Telekom becomes latest DT unit to assess tower carve-out
Hungarian NatCo evaluating potential opportunities and setbacks linked to shifting tower ownership into separate entity, following trend seen both inside and Deutsche Telekom’s operations and beyond.
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M&A
Hrvatski Telekom considering field services re-meld
Croatian operator initiates assessment of potential efficiency benefits from re-absorption of HT Servisi site maintenance and construction subsidiary.
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Venturing & Investments
DTCP joins Porsche to steer into mobility tech
Deutsche Telekom said to again act as anchor as affiliated investment group closes a third growth fund and sets up a mobility venturing vehicle with Porsche.
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M&A
Romania’s competition body runs rule over OTE’s latest exit plan
Competition Council says it has begun process of assessing antitrust implications of convoluted joint buyout by Clever Media and Digi Romania, which carries OTE’s hopes for an exit from local telecoms market.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom backs AI LLMs that ‘speak our lingo’
DTW24 – Ignite: DT’s AI lead highlights need for large language models that know telco products and services.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT and Orange plot joint developer platform for time-to-market gains
DT and Orange describe early efforts to improve developer productivity by streamlining and utilising their respective CI/CD platforms.
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M&A
German state trims Deutsche Telekom stake to 27.8%
Government intends to invest funds raised from DT share sale in Germany’s railways.
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M&A
Digi lands fresh role in OTE’s Romanian exit saga
OTE has signed an MoU with West Network Invest, said to be majority owned by Digi Romania.
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M&A
T-Mobile grabs first slice in UScellular carve-up
T-Mobile US to spend about $4.4bn on a sizeable customer, spectrum, and operational bolt-after agreeing previously mooted buyout of UScellular.
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M&A
T-Mobile’s Osvaldik stays coy on UScellular rumours
CFO indicates that UScellular would be approached in the same way as any other ‘hypothetical situation’.