Germany Telecoms News

All the latest key telecoms and digital infra insight, news and analysis from Germany.

2025-11-26T17:14:00+00:00

In depth: Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger envisions his firm as the “Deutsche Telekom of defence”, but a real-world alliance with the telco giant is also now in play, targeting Germany’s €35bn space-defence allocation. The move signals broader trend of European telcos pivoting toward military-grade connectivity and national resilience to capture new spend…

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Partnerships & Alliances

Germany: O2 refreshes Nokia RAN deal for five more years

2025-11-26T16:24:00+00:00

Operator to implement new solutions and continue using equipment from Nokia in its RAN until 2030. The contract is the latest that has been firmed up by a major European operator in recent months, and comes as Germany seeks to clamp down on 5G equipment from ‘high-risk’ vendors…

Analyst Briefing

Deutsche Telekomwatch: Germany’s roadmap to recovery

2025-11-24T11:21:00+00:00

Analyst Briefing: Telekom Deutschland’s new management switches tactics on broadband after customer trends remain in reverse; Group continues to aim high on AI; European tech harmonisation push accelerates.

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Deutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: Group extracts EU execs to push IT meld

2025-11-19T11:12:00+00:00

The latest strategic and senior changes at Deutsche Telekom see systems consolidation-focused operator looking to build up its central, Europe technology function with the extraction of multiple senior execs from Hrvatski Telekom and Magyar Telekom. Elsewhere, DT appoints a new Chief Networks Officer and former senior technology figures Claudia Nemat and Kim Kyllesbech Larsen take on new jobs.

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Telefónica Deutschland (O2 Germany)

Partnerships & Alliances

Germany: O2 refreshes Nokia RAN deal for five more years

2025-11-26T16:24:00+00:00

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Vodafone Germany

Financial & Performance

In-depth: defiant Vodafone CEO eyes European rebound

2025-11-20T14:15:00+00:00

Q2/H1 FY25–26: unwaveringly positive CEO claims right-sizing initiative has Vodafone moving in the right direction, and earnings largely back up the claim, but as some headwinds wane others are gathering on the horizon…

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Venturing & Investments

DT adds agentic AI biz Decagon to venturing portfolio

2025-11-12T16:39:00+00:00

DT’s corporate venturing arm T.Capital continues to expand its AI investment portfolio by backing Decagon’s Series-C fundraise, with the operator launching a commercial pilot in parallel…

Financial & Performance

Vodafone unsure on Gigafactory economics — focused on ‘low-hanging B2B fruit’

2025-11-12T15:42:00+00:00

Q2/H1 FY25–26: Fast-growing digital services now approximating €2bn annual revenue for Business growth engine, with intent to invest more in segment. Vodafone considers itself well placed for SMEs and sovereign cloud, but will not be rushed into big ticket AI data centre projects…

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Ex-Deutsche Funkturm exec becomes American Tower’s new Germany CEO

2025-11-12T15:16:00+00:00

Knud Felde’s promotion follows predecessor’s departure to rival Vantage Towers. Appointment is latest organisational shake-up in the German tower segment…

Financial & Performance

Vodafone begins German bounce back

2025-11-11T15:41:00+00:00

Q2/H1 FY25–26: Group CEO Margherita Della Valle claims that Vodafone Germany is benefiting from proactive moves to recover from recent lows, with service revenue growth the first fruit of its labour. MDU impact now lapped, 1&1 migration close to completion, and work ongoing to navigate competitive pressures to raise ARPU…

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Freenet bosses ‘not unhappy’ over rival O2’s CEO swap-out

2025-11-11T10:06:00+00:00

After Telefónica Deutschland announces a change of CEO and partner business leadership, execs at service provider major Freenet express hope that the changes will usher in a new (and less high-octane) period of competition in Europe’s largest telecoms market.

Partnerships & Alliances

Vodafone-SpaceMobile choose Germany for SatCo JV’s mission control

2025-11-07T18:22:00+00:00

European joint-venture advances with a Satellite Operations Centre in Germany and disclosure of security preparations for in-region sovereign services, ahead of 2026 launch plan. Vodafone stake in SpaceMobile could now be worth $1bn…

Network & Infra

DT preps 30,000-site tender for 2026, as Tier-1 open RAN builds

2025-11-06T14:13:00+00:00

Fyuz: Deutsche Telekom is dramatically expanding its open RAN ambitions, including changing its operating model to handle larger-scale rollout. Another wider takeaway from Fyuz 2025 in Dublin is that open RAN is now a question of ‘when’, not ‘if’, at least for major, small cell, and neutral host deployments…

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Telefónica Peoplewatch: McKinsey exec tasked with mining Murtra’s ‘diamonds’

2025-11-06T12:56:00+00:00

The latest strategic and senior changes at Telefónica, including news of a hire from consultancy McKinsey to lead a refreshed skills development push, as part of the Group’s new strategy, and changes of leadership at Telefónica Infra, the UK’s giffgaff, and in German wholesale.

Analyst Briefing

Vodafonewatch: satellite deals, towers sales

2025-11-06T07:56:00+00:00

Latest Vodafone Analyst Briefing: including moves in satellite and direct-to-device; a progress report from VodafoneZiggo on performance and a planned wireless infra divestment; installation of a new CEO at Vantage Towers; and more share price volatility at Vi…

Network & Infra

DT ties with NVIDIA and SAP on €1bn AI data centre

2025-11-05T10:55:00+00:00

Deutsche Telekom is transforming an existing Munich data centre through the installation of 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

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European telcos’ call to arms: DT in defence collab talks with Rheinmetall

Latest Headlines from Germany

DT backs AI image generation specialist Black Forest Labs

In-depth: defiant Vodafone CEO eyes European rebound

Deutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: Group extracts EU execs to push IT meld

Germany: DT targets Vodafone as it reboots fibre tactics

DT seeks ‘strong partners’ for German AI mega-hub pitch

Germany: O2 refreshes Nokia RAN deal for five more years

Deutsche Telekomwatch: Germany’s roadmap to recovery

Telekom Deutschland

Deutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: Group extracts EU execs to push IT meld

Deutsche Telekomwatch: New network chief; FWA and Wi-Fi boosts; Poland innovates on B2B

DT ties with Comcast to bolster Wi-Fi capabilities

Deutsche Telekomwatch Analyst Briefing: Srini seeks to keep the big mo at T-Mo

Deutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: Telefónica and Vodafone tap DT talent pool

Telefónica Deutschland (O2 Germany)

Germany: O2 refreshes Nokia RAN deal for five more years

Telefónica Peoplewatch: McKinsey exec tasked with mining Murtra’s ‘diamonds’

Telefónica plugs AI into new enterprise messaging service

Telefónicawatch Analyst Briefing: Group eyes German reboot; VM O2 aims high on mmWave

Telefónicawatch Analyst Briefing: Group vs Gloop as strategy unveil nears

Vodafone Germany

In-depth: defiant Vodafone CEO eyes European rebound

Vodafone unsure on Gigafactory economics — focused on ‘low-hanging B2B fruit’

Vodafonewatch: satellite deals, towers sales

Vodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: pragmatic Vodafone finds subsea ‘niche’

Vodafone adds public cloud integration expertise in Skaylink acquisition

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DT adds agentic AI biz Decagon to venturing portfolio

Vodafone unsure on Gigafactory economics — focused on ‘low-hanging B2B fruit’

Ex-Deutsche Funkturm exec becomes American Tower’s new Germany CEO

Vodafone begins German bounce back

Freenet bosses ‘not unhappy’ over rival O2’s CEO swap-out

Vodafone-SpaceMobile choose Germany for SatCo JV’s mission control

DT preps 30,000-site tender for 2026, as Tier-1 open RAN builds

Telefónica Peoplewatch: McKinsey exec tasked with mining Murtra’s ‘diamonds’

Vodafonewatch: satellite deals, towers sales

DT ties with NVIDIA and SAP on €1bn AI data centre