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Deutsche Telekom AG
Aktiengesellschaft

Aktiengesellschaft is a German language term that refers to a corporation that is limited by share s, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market....
 ( ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunication
Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the assisted Transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, Drum , Semaphore line, flag signals or heliograph....
s company headquartered in Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 and in the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
.

Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned
Public ownership

Public ownership refers to government ownership of any asset, industry, or corporation at any level, national government, regional government or local government ; or, it may refer to common non-state ownership....
 monopoly
Monopoly

In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it....
 Deutsche Bundespost
Deutsche Bundespost

The Deutsche Bundespost was created in 1947 as a successor to the Reichspost . Between 1947 and 1950 the enterprise was called Deutsche Post ....
 was privatized. As of June 2008, the German government still holds a 15% stake in company stock directly, and another 17% through the government bank KfW
KFW

KFW may refer to:*Keith Fullerton Whitman, an American musician*KfW or Kreditanstalt f?r Wiederaufbau, a German public-sector financial institution...
.

The former CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke was ousted by the board of the company because of slumping sales and the flight of customers to cheaper competitors.






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Deutsche Telekom AG
Aktiengesellschaft

Aktiengesellschaft is a German language term that refers to a corporation that is limited by share s, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market....
 ( ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunication
Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the assisted Transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, Drum , Semaphore line, flag signals or heliograph....
s company headquartered in Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 and in the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
.

Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned
Public ownership

Public ownership refers to government ownership of any asset, industry, or corporation at any level, national government, regional government or local government ; or, it may refer to common non-state ownership....
 monopoly
Monopoly

In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it....
 Deutsche Bundespost
Deutsche Bundespost

The Deutsche Bundespost was created in 1947 as a successor to the Reichspost . Between 1947 and 1950 the enterprise was called Deutsche Post ....
 was privatized. As of June 2008, the German government still holds a 15% stake in company stock directly, and another 17% through the government bank KfW
KFW

KFW may refer to:*Keith Fullerton Whitman, an American musician*KfW or Kreditanstalt f?r Wiederaufbau, a German public-sector financial institution...
.

The former CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke was ousted by the board of the company because of slumping sales and the flight of customers to cheaper competitors. More than 1.5 million customers changed to rival companies during 2005 and 2006 and as a result, Deutsche Telekom laid off more than 30,000 workers. The new CEO was announced on November 12 2006 after a long-night board session: René Obermann, the former CEO of T-Mobile International
T-Mobile

T-Mobile is a mobile network operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the FreeMove Business alliance....
.

The predecessor of Ricke, Ron Sommer, chairman of Deutsche Telekom between 1995 and 2002, was ousted because of the drop in the share price of the company in 2002. At the height of the dot-com bubble
Dot-com bubble

The "dot-com bubble" was a economic bubble covering roughly 1995?2001 during which stock markets in Western world saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new quaternary sector of industry and related fields....
, the share was valued at over €100 but fell significantly to about €12/share during a couple of months. Sommer said that "he had some opinion-based difficulties between him and board of the Telekom".

Charges were filed against the company for allegedly abusing call data. In October 2008 the company confirmed, that personal information of 17 million mobile phone customers has been copied.

Holdings

All subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom have names starting with "T-".
  • T-Home (formerly T-Com), a legacy telephone and fixed network carrier and IPTV
    IPTV

    IPTV is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection....
     operator
  • T-Online
    T-Online

    T-Online, a former subsidiary and now business unit of Deutsche Telekom, is the biggest internet service provider in Germany. It evolved out of the proprietary German Bildschirmtext information service in 1995....
    , an internet service provider (ISP)
  • T-Mobile
    T-Mobile

    T-Mobile is a mobile network operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the FreeMove Business alliance....
    , a mobile phone
    Mobile phone

    A mobile phone is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites....
     provider
  • T-Systems
    T-Systems

    T-Systems is a worldwide operating Information and Communications Technology provider founded in October 2000. It belongs to Deutsche Telekom AG and its central office is located in Frankfurt, Germany....
    , a business division focused on providing to large customers


A new Group structure was introduced on January 1, 2005, Deutsche Telekom has merged the two organizational business units of T-Com and T-Online into the Broadband/Fixed Network (BBFN) strategic business area. With around 40 million narrowband lines, over 9 million broadband lines and 14 million registered Internet customers, the Broadband/Fixed Network business area is one of the largest providers in Europe. R&D is now driven by Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs).

Deutsche Telekom also holds substantial shares in other telecom companies, including Central European subsidiaries T-Slovak Telekom
Slovak Telekom

Slovak Telekom is the largest telecommunications company operating in Slovakia . It is majority owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom. The remaining share is owned by Slovakia's Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications of the Slovak Repiblic, which owns 34 percent, and the National Property Fund of the Slovak Republic, which ow...
 (Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
), Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom

Magyar Telekom Nyrt. is Hungary's largest telecommunications company. The former monopolist is now a fully-consolidated subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom....
 (Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
), and T-Hrvatski Telekom
T-Hrvatski Telekom

T-Hrvatski Telekom is the national telecommunications company in Croatia.Croatian Telecom was formerly the telephony branch of the state-owned monopoly Hrvatska po?ta i telekomunikacije; HPT , which was split into two parts in 1999....
 (Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
), which are now fully consolidated into T-Com/T-Home. Furthermore, Magyar Telekom holds majority shares in Orbitel
Orbitel

Orbitel is Bulgarian wireline telecommunications and Internet service provider with national licenses for voice and data. Through its national packet-switched network Orbitel provides convergent telecommunication solutions for telephony, high speed Internet and VPNs throughout Bulgaria....
 (Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
), Combridge
Combridge

Combridge is a small settlement in Staffordshire, England. It is near the town of Uttoxeter.External links...
 (Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
), Makedonski Telekom
Makedonski Telekom

Makedonski Telekom AD is a telecommunications company in the Republic of Macedonia with headquarters in Skopje. It is part of the Magyar Telekom Group which is a fully-consolidated subsidiary of international Deutsche Telekom Group....
 (Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
), and T-Crnogorski Telekom (Montenegro
Montenegro

Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
) all of which have also been rebranded and included under the T-Com/T-Home umbrella.

Facilities

A list of transmission facilities follows.

TV Towers/Telecommunication towers

Berlinfernsehturmfootball
The following facilities are free standing TV Towers - some of which have publicly accessible observation decks.

  • Berliner Fernsehturm
  • Fernmeldeturm Berlin
    Fernmeldeturm Berlin

    The Fernmeldeturm Berlin is a telecommunication tower on the Schaefer mountain in Berlin-Wannsee. The Fernmeldeturm Berlin was built between 1961 and 1964 and is normally not open for visitors....
  • Fernmeldeturm Bremen
  • Transmission Tower Geyer
  • Telemax
    Telemax

    The Telemax is a telecommunication tower built from 1988 to 1992 in Hanover. The tower was designed by Hans U. Boeckler and is 272 meters high....
    , Hannover
  • VW-Tower, Hannover
  • Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
    Heinrich-Hertz-Turm

    The 'Heinrich-Hertz-Turm' is a radio telecommunication tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg, Germany.Designed by architect Fritz Trautwein, in co-operation with civil engineers J?rg Schlaich, Rudolf Bergermann and Fritz Leonhardt, it was built 1965–1968 for former Deutsche Bundespost near Planten un Blomen and the St....
    , Hamburg
  • Florianturm
    Florianturm

    The Florianturm is a landmark of Dortmund . It is named after Florian, the patron saint of gardeners.The Florianturm is the TV tower of Dortmund and was built in 1959 as an attraction for a federal horticulture show with a height of 219.6 metres....
    , Dortmund
  • Rheinturm Düsseldorf
    Rheinturm Düsseldorf

    The Rheinturm D?sseldorf is a 240.5 metre high concrete Radio masts and towers in D?sseldorf, Germany, capital of the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia....
  • Telecommunication Tower Bungsberg, Eutin
  • Fernmeldeturm Kiel
    Fernmeldeturm Kiel

    The Fernmeldeturm Kiel is a modern landmark of Kiel in Germany, completed in 1975. The 230 metre high tower, which is used for directional services and TV-, VHF- and Ultra high frequency-transmission is not accessible to the public....
  • Colonius
    Colonius

    Colonius is the Cologne telecommunications tower, which was finished in 1981. The Colonius possesses a cafeteria, viewing platform, and a restaurant, apart from antennas for radio relay and radio services within the Very high frequency range....
    , Köln
  • Transmission towers on Brocken
    Sender Brocken

    The Sender Brocken is a facility for FM- and TV-transmitters on Brocken in Germany.The facility includes two transmission towers. The old tower was built between 1936 and 1937....
  • Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower
    Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower

    H?nenburg Telecommunication Tower is a 164 metre tall telecommunicatio tower of Deutsche Telekom AG on H?neburg near Bielefeld, which was built in 1972 as replacement for a smaller telecommunication tower, built in 1952, which is today used as H?nenburg Observation Tower....
    , Bielefeld
  • Fernsehturm Kulpenburg
    Fernsehturm Kulpenburg

    The Fernsehturm Kulpenburg is a 94 metre high telecommunication tower on the 477 metre high Kulpenberg mountain in Thuringia, Germany. This tower built of reinforced concrete was built between 1959 and 1964 and has an observation deck and a restaurant in a height of 76 metres....
  • TV Tower Dresden
    Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz

    The Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz is a TV tower in Dresden, Germany. It is situated on the Wachwitzer Elbh?hen and serves as a transmitting tower for television and radio broadcasts....
  • Fernsehturm Schwerin-Zippendorf
    Fernsehturm Schwerin-Zippendorf

    The Schweriner Fernsehturm is a 136.5-metre-tall radio masts and towers built of steel-concrete between 1960 and 1964 in Schwerin, Germany. Unlike most other TV towers, the ground plan is a spherical triangle and not a cylindric cross section....
    , Schwerin
  • Europaturm
    Europaturm

    The Europaturm is a 337.5 meter high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt in Germany....
    , Frankfurt/Main - referred to by Frankfurters as the "Ginnheimer Spargel" (Ginnheim's Asparagus!)
  • Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg
    Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg

    The Fernmeldeturm N?rnberg, the tallest structure in Bavaria, is the Nuremberg telecommunication tower, also called the N?rnberger Ei because of its egg-shaped tower basket in a height of 185 metres, is 292 metres high and was built between 1977 and 1980 according to blueprints by architect Erwin Heinle....
  • Fernmeldeturm Mannheim
    Fernmeldeturm Mannheim

    The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 204.8 metre high concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck in Mannheim. It was designed by the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and constructed between 1973 and 1975....
  • Fernmeldeturm Heubach
    Heubach Telecommunication Tower

    Heubach Telecommunication Tower is a 162 metre tall telecommunication tower of Deutsche Telekom AG on Glasenberg at Heubach in Baden-W?rttemberg ....
  • Fernmeldeturm Münster
  • Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf
    Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf

    The Stuttgarter Fernmeldeturm is a reinforced concrete tower for radio relay, FM broadcasting and TV transmitting services tower at Stuttgart-Frauenkopf in Germany ....
  • Olympiaturm
    Olympiaturm

    The Olympiaturm in Olympiapark, Munich, Munich has an overall height of 291 m and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of 190 m there is an observation platform as well as a small rock and roll museum housing various memorabilia....
    , München
  • Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower
    Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower

    Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower is a 142 metre tall TV tower built of reinforced concrete on the 238 metre high elevated Jakob's Mountain near Porta Westfalica....
    , Porta Westfalica
  • Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower
    Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower

    Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower is a 230 metre tall telecommunication tower of reinforced concrete at Cuxhaven in Germany. Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke Tower, which is named after Friedrich Clemens Gerke, was completed in 1991 and is not accessible for tourists....
    , Cuxhaven
  • Nordschwarzwaldturm
    Nordschwarzwaldturm

    Nordschwarzwaldturm is the name of a 148 metre free standing steel framework tower near Sch?mberg im Schwarzwald at in the Black Forest. The Nordschwarzwaldturm was built in 1974 and is used for directional radio services, FM- and TV-transmissions....
    , Schömberg
  • Directional Radio Tower Torfhaus
  • Reisenbach Telecommunication Tower
    Reisenbach Telecommunication Tower

    Reisenbach Telecommunication Tower is among the tallest structures in the Northern parts of Baden-W?rttemberg. Only the two masts of Sender Donebach are taller in the Mudau community....
  • Schlemmin TV Tower
    Schlemmin TV Tower

    Schlemmin TV Tower is a TV tower of reinforced concrete southwest of Schlemmin, a village in the municipality of Bernitt in northern Germany. The tower was built in 1967....
  • Transmission Tower Sonneberg-Bleßberg


Guyed masts for FM, directional radio and TV


  • Richtfunkstelle Berlin-Frohnau
    Richtfunkstelle Berlin-Frohnau

    The Richtfunkstelle Berlin-Frohnau was a facility for directional radio services in Frohnau . Before the German reunification, the facility served as a directional radio link between West Berlin and West Germany....
  • Gartow-Höhbeck transmitter
    Gartow-Höhbeck transmitter

    Gartow-H?hbeck transmitter is a large facility for FM- and TV-transmission in Lower-Saxony, situated behalfof the community of Gartow and H?hbeck....
  • Behren-Bokel Transmitter
  • FM- and TV-mast Heidelstein
    Heidelstein transmitter

    Heidelstein transmitter is a facility for FM- and TV-broadcasting on the Heidelstein mountain in Rh?n. It uses as antenna tower a 218 metre tall guyed mast of tubular steel, which weighs 245 tons and was built in 1969....
  • Transmitter Torfhaus
  • Transmitter Wesel
    FM and TV-mast Wesel

    The FM and TV-mast Wesel is a 320.8 metre tall guyed steel framework radio mast of the Deutsche Telekom at Wesel-B?derich, Germany. FM and TV-mast Wesel was built in 1968 and is used for FM- and TV transmission....
  • Peheim transmitter
    Peheim transmitter

    Peheim transmitter is a facility of Deutsche Telekom AG for FM- and TV transmission northeast of Peheim at 52?53'17" N and 7?50'59" E. Peheim transmitter, which is often incorrectly named as Cloppenburg transmitter uses as antenna tower a 20 metre tall guyed lattice steel mast, which is guyed in 4 levels and whose base is situated 43 me...
  • FM- and TV-mast Treolin
  • FM- and TV-mast Casekow
  • Bleialf transmitter
    Bleialf transmitter

    Bleialf transmitter is a facility of the Deutsche Telekom AG on the Black Man mountain at Bleialf, Germany for FM- and TV-broadcasting. It uses as antenna tower a 224 metre tall guyed steel-tube mast....
  • Heidenberg transmitter
  • TV-mast Verden


Transmission facilities for long- and mediumwave


  • Longwave transmitter Donebach
    Sender Donebach

    The Sender Donebach is a 500 kilowatt longwave transmitter working on 153 kHz, which transmits the program of "Deutschlandfunk".This radio facility, which is property of the Deutsche Telekom was built between 1965 and 1967 on a former airfield and on March 10 1967 went into service....
     (Programme: DLF)
  • Long- and mediumwave transmitter Zehlendorf
    Sender Zehlendorf

    The Sender Zehlendorf is a transmission facility, existing since 1936. At that time in Zehlendorf a short wave transmitter was built for firm radio services....
     (Programm: DLR und Mittelwelle, Programm: Stimme Rußlands)
  • Longwave transmitter Aholming
    Aholming transmitter

    Aholming transmitter is a facility for broadcasting the program of Deutschlandfunk on 207 kHz with a power of 500 kW at day and 250 kW at night between Aholming and Ottmaring in Bavaria....
     (Programme: DLF)
  • Medium wave transmitter Nordkirchen
    Nordkirchen transmitter

    The Nordkirchen transmitter is a medium-wave broadcasting facility of Deutsche Telekom near Nordkirchen in Northrhine-Westphalia. It was built in 1979 and 1980 after the 549 kHz frequency was again made available in that location....
     (Programme: DLF)
  • Medium wave transmitter Thurnau (Programme: DLF)
  • Medium wave transmitter Ravensburg
    Ravensburg-Horgenzell transmitter

    Ravensburg-Horgenzell transmitter is a mediumwave broadcasting facility of Deutsche Telekom used for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk on the area of community Horgenzell nothwest of Ravensburg in Baden-W?rttemberg....
     (Programme: DLF)
  • Medium wave transmitter Cremlingen
    Cremlingen transmitter

    The Cremlingen transmitter is a large mediumwave transmission facility established in 1962 for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk on 756 kHz near Cremlingen-Abbenrode....
     (Programme: DLF)
  • Medium wave transmitter Ehndorf
    Ehndorf transmitter

    Ehndorf transmitter is a Deutsche Telekom mediumwave facility broadcasting Deutschlandfunk on 1269 kHz . It is at Ehndorf, a village west of Neum?nster in Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Republic of Germany....
     (Programme: DLF)
  • Mainflingen longwave transmitter
    Mainflingen longwave transmitter

    Mainflingen longwave transmitter is a large facility for commercial longwave transmissions at Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany. It uses several T- and triangle antennas, which are mounted on guyed masts of lattice steel, insulated against ground....
  • Mediumwave Transmitter Mainflingen
    Mediumwave transmitter Mainflingen

    The Mediumwave transmitter Mainflingen is a mediumwave transmission facility south of the A3 motorway near Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany. Mainflingen was the first mediumwave transmitter for the radio station Deutschlandfunk....
  • AM transmitter Burg (Longwave and mediumwave transmission facility)
  • Medium wave transmitter Wilsdruff
    Transmitter Wilsdruff

    The transmitter Wilsdruff is a medium wave radio broadcasting facility near Wilsdruff, Germany. Until the nineties there was a transmitter for 1044?kHz with 250 kilowatts transmission power....
     (Sendeanlage für Mittelwelle, Programme: MDR Info)
  • Wiederau transmitter
    Wiederau transmitter

    The Wiederau transmitter is the oldest broadcasting facility in Saxony. It is located near Wiederau, a village which is part of the municipality of Pegau, and is used for medium-wave, FM broadcasting and Television broadcasting....
     (Programme: MDR Info, also FM- and TV-broadcasting)
  • Medium wave transmitter Wachenbrunn (Programmes: MDR Info und Stimme Russlands)
  • Medium wave transmitter Wöbbelin (out of service)
  • Medium wave transmitter Hirschlanden
    Hirschlanden transmitter

    The Hirschlanden transmitter is a facility of the Deutsche Telekom AG for mediumwave broadcasting south of Ditzingen-Hirschlanden situated at 48?49'47" N and 9?02'15" E....
     (Programme: AFN)
  • Medium wave transmitter Reichenbach (Programme: MDR Info)


Transmitters for non-broadcasting use

  • DDH47, Pinneberg
    Pinneberg

    Pinneberg is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, capital of the Pinneberg in Germany. The town has about 41,000 inhabitants.Near Pinneberg there is the transmission site for the maritime weather fax service DDH47, working on 147.3 kHz....
  • Mainflingen longwave transmitter
    Mainflingen longwave transmitter

    Mainflingen longwave transmitter is a large facility for commercial longwave transmissions at Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany. It uses several T- and triangle antennas, which are mounted on guyed masts of lattice steel, insulated against ground....


Transmission facilities for shortwave


  • Shortwave transmitter Wertachtal
  • Shortwave transmitter Jülich
    Shortwave transmitter Jülich

    The shortwave transmitter J?lich, was operated by Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems, is part of the shortwave broadcasting facility at J?lich, Germany....
  • Shortwave transmitter Nauen
    Nauen Transmitter Station

    Nauen Transmitter Station in Nauen, Havelland , Brandenburg, Germany, is the oldest transmitting plant in the world. It was founded on 1 April 1906 by Telefunken engineer R....


Aerial testing sites


  • Aerial test facility Brück


Facilities for satellite communication


  • Erdfunkstelle Usingen


Acquisitions

2001
  • VoiceStream Wireless for $24 billion


2007
  • SunCom Wireless for $2.4 billion
  • ImmoScout24


2008
  • OTE
    OTE

    OTE is the national telecommunications provider of Greece.Standing for Hellenic Telecommunication Organization , OTE is the incumbent telecommunications operator of Greece....


Music in Werbespots

The Telekom AG promoted the career from Ella Larsson
Anna Depenbusch

Anna Depenbusch is a German singer and musician....
 , her first song was "Lara's Song" in the Winterwerbespot 2008.

The Company is also promoting songs from many other musicans, the songs are downloadable for free on the official website.

List of Songs

  • Agnes Obel - Just So
  • Birgit Fischer - Winterabend
  • Paul Potts
    Paul Potts

    Paul Robert Potts is a United Kingdom tenor who in 2007 became the winner of the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot....
     - Nessun Dorma
    Nessun dorma

    Nessun dorma is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera....
  • Matt Ryan - There was a Day


External links

  • with links to its various subsidiaries
  • Google Finance
    Google Finance

    Google Finance is a website launched on March 21, 2006 by Google. The service features business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions and major news events....
     stock information for , ,