Deutsche Telekomwatch Report #6 December 2011-January 2012 Snapshot
1 February 2012
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Table of Contents
1 Executive brief
4 Group
4 M&A
4 DT back to drawing board after TMUS deal collapse
5 Break-up compensation eases pain
6 Assets in play as DT looks for TMUS cash injection?
7 People
7 DT reshuffles board duties as Kozel departs
7 Nemat, Clemens widen responsibilities
8 Berlemann to take over from Weijermars at TMNE
8 Competition challenges will top agenda
9 People movement highlights
10 Products and services
10 Technology and innovation
10 Products and services
10 DT becomes Groupon’s first mobile carrier partner
12 Technology and innovation
12 Deutsche Telekom makes foray into palliative care
12 DT preps multi-screen service with MobiTV tie-up
13 Terminals
13 T-Venture
13 Terminals
13 Terminal highlights
14 Germany
14 Marketing
14 Partners
14 Network
14 Audi trials in-car comms on Cologne LTE network
14 TMDE, O2 agree network-sharing deal
15 Operators revive earlier ties
15 TMDE chosen over Vodafone
16 Products and services
16 TDE inks bulk fibre deal with housing group
16 Competition over bulk cable clients heats up
17 Europe
17 Austria
17 Bulgaria
17 Austria
17 TMAT, 3 team up on national roaming deal
18 Croatia
18 Croatia
18 LTE network supports robotics trial
20 Czech Republic
20 Czech Republic
20 Preparations underway for DC-HSPA+, LTE launches
21 Greece
21 Greece
21 Union deal reached over worker exit scheme
21 DT seeks more savings
22 Hungary
22 Hungary
22 TMHU steals march on rivals with New Year LTE debut
23 State grouping plots mobile challenge
23 Consortium criticised
24 DT, MT settle bribery lawsuits
25 Poland
25 Ixia gains network testing contract
25 Macedonia
25 No new entrant emerges from digital dividend sell-off
27 Netherlands
27 Montenegro
27 Huawei secures transmission upgrade contract
27 Netherlands
27 Auction pencilled for October; new entrants get leg-up
28 Netherlands
28 TMNE exits mobile wallet tie-up
28 Operator protests over allocation ignored
28 Romania
28 ANCOM seeks windfall from 900MHz/1800MHz sell-off
29 Netherlands
29 Slovakia
29 Orange, Vodafone hit out over timeframe
30 Serbia
30 OTE firms up Serbian exit
31 United Kingdom
31 United Kingdom
31 BT and EE update on LTE trials
31 Next steps for triallists unclear
32 United Kingdom
32 EE preps customer service revamp
32 EE hit as Ofcom changes 800MHz plans again
32 EE offered 1800MHz LTE consolidation, but still seen as main loser
33 EE hits out at Ofcom
33 Rural coverage obligations also to be tweaked
35 EE moves closer to 1800MHz sale
36 EE firms up China Telecom partnership
36 German expansion mooted
36 DT seeks place within developing global alliances
37 Systems Solutions
37 Partners
37 Customers
37 Contract highlights
37 Correos shifts to SAP/T-Systems cloud
37 Jet Aviation extension gained
37 Vueling turns to T-Systems for tech support
38 USA
38 Isis
38 Partners
38 Corporate
38 Unions hit out over DT corporate responsibility claims
39 Products and services
39 Regulatory
39 TMUS embroiled in Carrier IQ “spyware” controversy
40 Index
Index
A
ABN Amro 28
Agora SA
- Gazeta.pl 25
Aliph Inc.
- Jawbone 13
American Express Company 28
AFL-CIO 38
American Tower Corp. 6
Americas
- Canada 38
- USA 4, 5, 6, 13, 16, 24, 38
- – DoJ 4, 5, 24
- – FCC 4, 5, 39
- – SEC 24
Andreessen Horowitz 13
Apple 39
Aras Corp. 37
Asia-Pacific
- China 36
AT&T 4, 5, 6, 12, 36, 38, 39
B
Beyondsoft Corp. 36
Blyk 31
BMW 14
BT Group 31, 35
C
CareerBuilder LLC
- JobScout24 10
Carrier IQ Inc. 39
CeBIT 10
Celeno Communications 13
China Mobile 36
China Telecom 36
China Unicom 36
Cisco Systems 7
Citigroup 16
Comms. Workers of America (CWA) 38
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 10
Continental AG 10
Correos y Telégrafos SA 37
COUPIES GmBH 10
Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) 6
D
Deutsche Post 10, 37
Deutsche Telekom
- Europe
- – Austria 17, 22
- – Bulgaria (see OTE) 13, 17, 21
- – Croatia (Hrvatski Telekom) 9, 18
- – Czech Republic 15, 20
- – Greece (see OTE) 21
- – Hungary (see Magyar Telekom) 9, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25
- – Montenegro (see MT) 27
- – Netherlands 8, 27, 28, 29
- – Poland (Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa/PTC) 25
- – Romania (see OTE) 13, 21, 28
- – Serbia (see T. Srbija/OTE) 30
- – Slovakia (Slovak Telekom/T Mobile) 23, 29
- – UK (Everything Everywhere) 6, 9, 13, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 39
- Executives
- – Berlemann, Thomas 8
- – Boezel, Jerry 9
- – Clemens, Reinhard 7
- – Höttges, Timotheus 21
- – Kozel, Edward 7
- – Nejedl, Ralk 9
- – Nemat, Claudia 7
- – Obermann, René 7
- – van Damme, Niek Jan 8
- – Wössner, Dirk 8
- Ex-executives
- – Weijermars, Bart 8
- Germany 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 25, 31
- – InteractiveMedia 16
- – T Online 14
- – T-Online 14
- Investments
- – Magyar Telekom (see seperate) 9, 22, 23, 24, 25
- – OTE (see seperate) 21, 30
- Management Board 7
- Product and Innovation
- – Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) 10
- Products and services
- – App Taxi! 17
- – Connected Car 10
- – De-Mail 10
- – Dynamic Services Platform 37
- – Entertain 12, 13, 16
- – LIGA total! 16
- – LiveMAG 14
- – My T-Mobile 27
- – Net&Roll 4G 22
- – Rodina v bezpeci 20
- – Tactful Calling 10
- – T-Home 22
- – T-Mobile TV 12
- Strategy
- – Fix – - Transform – - Innovate 7
- – Growth Areas 10, 12
- – Save for Service 7, 21
- Systems Solutions 9, 37
- – T-Systems 7, 9, 14, 36, 37
- T-Venture 12, 13
- – Jawbone (see Aliph) 13
- – Portavita 12
- USA 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 28, 36, 38, 39
DHL Worldwide Express 10, 37
Drillisch AG
- eteleon e-solutions AG
- – discoTel 14
E
emuse Corporation Ltd 16
Ericsson 27
Europe
- Albania 21
- Austria 17, 22, 35
- Belgium 9, 17
- Bulgaria 13, 17, 21
- Croatia 9, 18, 29
- – University of Rijeka 18
- Czech Republic 17, 20
- Denmark 17
- France 17, 32, 33, 35, 36
- Germany 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 39
- – Bundeskartellamt 16
- Greece 21, 29, 30
- Hungary 13, 22, 23, 28, 29, 35
- NMHH 22, 23
- Ireland 15
- Italy 30
- – Posta Italiane SpA 37
- Luxembourg 9
- Macedonia 24, 25
- – AEK 25
- Montenegro 24, 27
- Netherlands 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 25, 27, 28, 29
- Poland 25
- – UOKiK 25
- Romania 21, 23, 28, 29
- – ANCOM 28, 29
- Serbia 30
- Slovakia 29
- – TÚ SR 29
- Spain 15, 37
- Switzerland 17, 37
- United Kingdom (UK) 6, 15, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36
- – Ofcom 31, 32, 33
European Union
- European Commission 24, 28
Everything Everywhere Ltd (see DT, FT) 6, 9, 13, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36
- Executives
- – Allera, Marc 9
- – O’Leary, Jackie 32
- – Swantee, Olaf 31, 32
- Ex-executives
- – Hay, Duncan 9
- – Ralston, Andrew 9
- Orange Shots 31
- Orange UK 13, 31
- T-Mobile UK 13, 31, 39
- You Choose 31
eVigilo 25
F
Facebook 18
France Télécom 32, 33, 35, 36
- Orange 13, 17, 28, 29, 31
- – Austria 17
- – Romania 28
- – Slovakia 29
- – UK (see EE, DT) 6, 9, 13, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36
FreeMove Alliance (DT-FT-TeliaSonera-TI) 21
- Service Central Report 21
G
Gemalto NV 38
General Dynamics / Jet Aviation 37
Google 35, 39
- Android 10, 13, 17, 27, 39
- YouTube 10, 39
Groupon Inc. 10
H
Hawe SA / Hawe Telekom Sp zoo 25
Hewlett-Packard 9
High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) 39
Hrvatski Telekom (see DT, Croatia) 9, 18
- Combis d.o.o. 9
Huawei Technologies 13, 18, 22, 27, 31, 36
Hutchison Whampoa / 3 Group
- – Austria 17
- – UK 9, 32, 35
I
ING 28
International Airlines Group SA
- Vueling Airlines SA 37
Ixia 25
J
J.P. Morgan Asset Management 13
JVL Ventures, LLC (Isis, USA) 28, 38
K
Kabel Baden-Württemberg GmbH 16
KBC Group N.V. 23
Khosla Ventures 13
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 13
KPN 27, 28
L
Lahn-Dill Hospitals 12
Leap Wireless International Inc. 6
Lebara Group 36
LG Electronics 39
Liberty Global Inc. 16, 22
- Chello Central Europe Zrt 22
- Unitymedia GmbH 16
- UPC Broadband 28
Lycamobile Ltd 36
M
Magyar Fejlesztési Bank Rt (MFB) 23
Magyar Posta Pal Szabo 23
Magyar Telekom (see DT) 9, 22, 23, 24, 25
- Makedonski T./T-Mobile 8, 9, 24, 25
- Montenegro (Crnogorski Telekom) 27
- T-Mobile Hungary 13, 22, 23
Magyar Villamos Művek Zrt. (MVM) 23
MasterCard 28
MEDICA 12
MetroPCS Communications Inc. 6
Microsoft / Windows Phone 13
Milner, Yuri 13
MobiTV 12
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. 13
N
NASDAQ 10
National Farmers Union (NFU) 31
neopost SA 37
NMa (Netherlands) 27
Nokia 13
Nokia Siemens Networks 31
O
Olympic Games 2012 (London) 36
one2many 25
ONE Telekom. uslugi AD (T. Slovenije) 25
OECD 38
OTE (Hellenic T. Org. SA, see DT) 21, 30
- Bulgaria (Globul) 13, 17, 21
- Cosmote 13, 21, 28, 29
- – Albanian Mobile Comms 21
- – Greece 21
- – Romania 13, 21, 28
- Serbia (see Telekom Srbija) 30
- Tsamaz, Michael 30
P
Portavita BV (see T-Venture) 12
R
Rabobank 28
RCS&RDS SA 23, 29
Research In Motion / BlackBerry 27, 39
Roam Mobility 38
Royal Bank of Scotland plc, The 35
S
Samsung 16, 39
SAP 37
SAZKA, a.s. 20
Sequoia Capital 13
Shebang Technologies Group Ltd 9
Siemens AG 9
Sierra Wireless 14
Slovak Telekom (see DT, Slovakia) 29
Sprint Nextel 4, 6, 12, 39
T
Taxi 40 100 Taxifunkzentrale GmbH 17
Technology
- 2G 15, 17, 28, 29, 33, 36
- 3G 5, 13, 15, 17, 20, 29
- – Evolved HSPA (HSPA+/I-HSPA) 20, 22
- – - 64QAM 20
- – HSPA 20, 22, 27
- – UMTS 14
- 4G 13, 22, 25, 31, 32, 33, 39
- – Long Term Evolution (LTE) 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 31, 32, 35
- DSL 31
- Ethernet 25
- Fibre 14, 16, 25
- IP 25
- IPTV 13
- NFC 28, 38
- Personal computer 12, 25, 31
- – Netbook 13
- RF 31
- Smartphone 10, 17, 25, 27, 31, 39
- SMS 17, 20, 25
- Spectrum
- – 800 MHz 20, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33
- – 900 MHz 23, 27, 28, 29
- – 1000 MHz 32, 33
- – 1800 MHz 14, 22, 27, 28, 29, 32, 35
- – 1900 MHz 27
- – 2100 MHz 27, 29
- – 2600 MHz 22, 27, 28, 29, 33
- – Advanced Wireless Spectrum 5
- – Digital dividend 20, 25, 28, 31, 32
- W-LAN 13, 31
Tele2 28
- Netherlands 28
Telecom Italia 30
Telefónica Group 14, 15, 20, 32, 35, 36
- Europe 14, 15
- – Czech Republic 15, 20
- – Germany 14, 15
- – UK 32, 35
Telekom Austria 30
- A1 17
Telekom Slovenije, d.d.
- Macedonia (ONE) 25
Telekom Srbija a.d. (see OTE/DT) 30
Telenor ASA / Hungary 22, 23
Terra Firma Capital Partners (TFCP)
- D. Annington Immobilien GmbH 16
TIE Holding NV 29
TNT NV 10
Trade Union Advisory Comm. to the OECD 38
Transatel SA 36
TRAVIK (Sixpack) 28
V
Value-added services 10, 25, 33, 36
ver.di (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft) 38
Verizon Communications 4, 12, 38
- Verizon Wireless 4, 12, 38
Viettel Group 23
Virgin Media 35
Visa 28
Vodafone 8, 15, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 32, 35, 36
- Europe Region
- – Czech Republic 20
- – Germany 15
- – Hungary 22, 23
- – Netherlands 8, 27, 28
- – Romania 28
- – UK 32, 35, 36
Volkswagen AG
- Audi AG 14
Y
YouMail Inc. 39
Z
Zesko Holding BV (Ziggo) 28
Ziggo 4 (see Liberty/UPC, Zesko) 28
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