All the latest key telecoms and digital infra insight, news and analysis from Germany.
FY24: Group CEO wants to keep staff on toes despite another strong financial performance, prefacing row-back on homeworking and senior leadership shake-up.
FY24: Commercial strength across regions enables DT to meet all major financial targets for year.
FY24: DT’s differing position and priorities to European rivals sees regional capex remain elevated.
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.
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.
Latest around Vodafone, including rumours of a UK pay-TV play once Vodafone and Three complete their combination; Vodafone and Digi’s Romanian M&A hits its first regulatory speedbump; Group entities lobby for improved subsea security and land bank protections; Vodacom’s Shameel Joosub goes on tour…
Germany’s antitrust authority finds that pair engaged in “anti-competitive” behaviour, saying they could have reallocated resources to fulfil contractual obligations to 1&1. Final decision expected later this year…
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.
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.
Glasfaser Nordwest firms up open access agreement, with implementation set to begin in the second half of 2025. Panellists from other German fibre players at recent FTTH Conference heatedly debated state of open access in the nation, with DT taking potshots at the altnets…
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.
Oliver Schmäschke, a key figure in Deutsche Telekom’s corporate venturing strategy over the last decade, becomes Managing Partner at T.Capital.
Collectively, Telefónica’s core quad deliver on key Group ambitions in FY24, particularly around operating and capital efficiency.
Latest from Vodafone as the Group faces the ups and downs of dealmaking; hype turns to more grounded optimism on small cells and 5G MPN solutions; several key changes to OpCo ExCos, and some new digs for former CEOs; more across the footprint…
Consultant Sven Müller brought in to drive turnaround effort from new position on the OpCo’s Executive Committee.
German fibre operator sits down at negotiating table with national energy provider (and Deutsche Telekom partner) EWE, seeking to forge open network access pact in bid to further alleviate overbuild concerns.
