Deutsche Telekom Strike

The German Deutsche Boerse has decided not to proceed with the purchase of a minimum 51-percent stake in the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), Poland's treasury said on Monday. "The Deutsche Boerse did not present a new document, which means the end of the process according to our strategy," the treasury said in a statement. Poland had given the Deutsche Boerse, the sole bidder for the WSE, until last Friday to refine its offer for a minimum 51-percent stake in central Europe's largest stock market. Aside from the best sale price, Poland was looking for guarantees that an investor would guarantee that the WSE would ... Read Full Story

* First multi-vendor tests of 3GPP standardised interface T-Mobile, the mobile arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, Ubiquisys Limited ('Ubiquisys') and Huawei Technologies ("Huawei") today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct femtocell Interoperability Testing (IOT) at T-Mobile's labs over the next 6 months. These ground-breaking interoperability tests will involve Femtocells from both Ubiquisys and Huawei, which will communicate using the 3GPP's new Iuh standardised open interface. They will be connected to a Huawei Femto Gateway into T-Mobile's core network. T-Mobile, Ubiquisys and Huawei are committed to a scalable, multi-vendor femtocell market based on open standards. Today's announcement paves the way ... Read Full Story

Deutsche Telekom is making numerous new functions available to all customers of the Entertain TV service. Thanks to the "connected video recorder," Entertain customers can now link up several media receivers, manage serial recordings even more easily and share photos with friends and relatives via Entertain. This and other functions have been implemented as part of a software update and are available to all customers free of charge. With the "connected video recorder," Entertain customers can now link up the media receiver required for receiving Entertain with a second device, such as the Media Receiver 100, within the same household. In this way, Entertain ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and German labor leaders announced a transatlantic alliance on Wednesday aimed at persuading Germany's giant Deutsche Telekom AG to allow collective bargaining at its subsidiary, T-Mobile USA. Under the agreement, which U.S. labor officials called unprecedented, German trade union Ver.di will represent T-Mobile USA workers and the Communications Workers of America in talks with Deutsche Telekom managers in Bonn. CWA, which has been unable to establish representation at T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. mobile phone service, said it would also launch a new effort to organize workers and open a dialogue with the U.S. subsidiary's managers. The deal was ... Read Full Story

Deutsche Telekom AG reported third-quarter net income rose 7 percent as it remained focused on controlling costs and developing key markets in the U.S., Britain and Poland. Telekom, based in Bonn, on Thursday reported net income of euro959 million ($1.4 billion) in the July-September period compared with euro895 million a year earlier. This quarter's figure includes results for Greece's Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA. Revenue rose 5 percent to nearly euro16.3 billion in the quarter compared with nearly euro15.5 billion. "We have continued the positive trend of the second quarter and have picked up the pace," Chief Executive Rene Obermann said. "We responded quickly and ... Read Full Story