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KKR bids for Deutsche Telekom tower business

A trio of investors, KKR & Co, Global Infrastructure Partners and Stonepeak Partners, have combined to bid for a controlling stake in Deutsche Telekom’s (DT) cellular towers subsidiary, according to Bloomberg. However, they are not alone in the bidding war. A consortium of Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management and Cellnex Telecom has also made […]

June 21, 2022By Chris Forrester

Comcast Technology Solutions for Magenta TV

Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable that provides media and entertainment technology to content providers, operators, and advertisers, has announced that its Cloud TV Suite is being deployed as the new back-end platform for Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV in selected markets. Deployments began in Austria and will be phased across other Deutsche Telekom […]

June 6, 2022

ANGA COM readies to open doors

ANGA COM 2022 will kick-off on May 1th with 390 exhibitors from 33 countries on the Cologne fairgrounds. The successful restart of the Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online will take place on more than 22,000 sqm of exhibition space until May 12th.According to the event’s slogan ‘Where Broadband meets Content’, ANGA COM […]

May 9, 2022

ANGA COM 2022: Conference Programme, Exhibitor List

ANGA COM has released an interactive floor plan, the complete conference programme and an extended exhibitor list for 2022. The exhibitor list offers search and filter functions as well as extended information about the exhibitors and their location in the two exhibition halls. This enables an optimal preparation of the show visit. The exhibition space […]

April 8, 2022

Airties selected by Deutsche Telekom

Airties, a supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions to service providers globally, has signed an agreement with Deutsche Telekom to deploy Airties’ suite of Smart Wi-Fi products and services across DT-Europe. Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, with some 242 million mobile customers, 27 million fixed-network lines, and 22 million broadband […]

March 31, 2022

Survey: Germany SVoD adoption continues to rise

Results from the Kagan year-end 2021 Germany Consumer Insights survey show a substantial spike in online subscription video use last year, with overall SVoD use climbing 9 percentage points over 2020 to 81 per cent. Use of Amazon Prime Video, the most widely used SVoD service among respondents in Germany, reached 52 per cent at […]

March 30, 2022

Aferian appoints Foster 24i CEO

Aferian, the B2B video streaming solutions company, has announced a leadership transition within its 24i business. 24i CEO, Joachim Bergman, will step down from this role effective immediately and from the Board of Directors of Aferian on April 30th. Bergman joined Aferian in September 2017 as SVP Cloud Services and has been instrumental to the […]

March 21, 2022

Deutsche Telekom brings service automation to B2B domain with Netcracker

Netcracker Technology announced that Deutsche Telekom has selected Netcracker Service Orchestration to automate its B2B services across multivendor software-defined WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi (SD-X) environments. Netcracker is responsible for all aspects of the cloud-based solution, including build and deployment, as well as ongoing operations delivered as a managed service. Through strong collaboration and the use […]

March 8, 2022

Deutsche Telekom exceeds guidance

Deutsche Telekom increased its financial figures in 2021. The Group’s total revenue grew by 7.7 per cent in the 2021 financial year to €108.8 billion, with service revenues increasing by 6.5 per cent to €84.1 billion. Adjusted EBITDA AL rose by 6.6 percent year-on-year to €37.3 billion. Based on constant exchange rates, i.e., those used […]

February 24, 2022

Akhavan replaces Dugan as EchoStar CEO

Michael Dugan, President & CEO at EchoStar, is retiring after 30 years of working with Charlie Ergen and the EchoStar/Dish family of businesses. He is being replaced by Hamid Akhavan. Dugan will remain on the board of directors and will serve as a strategic advisor to the company. Akhavan will take over at the end […]

February 23, 2022By Chris Forrester