Deutsche Telekom AG is a telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

s company headquartered in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of 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 federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

.
Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned monopoly

Monopoly

A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity...

 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 für 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 International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

.

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 speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more...

, 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".

As part of the Deutsche Telekom eavesdropping controversy

Deutsche Telekom eavesdropping controversy

The Deutsche Telekom eavesdropping controversy became public at the end of May 2008 through an article in the weekly, Der Spiegel. The prosecutor in Bonn has initiated investigations against eight former members of Deutsche Telekom's advisory board, executive board and former employees...

, charges were filed against the company for allegedly abusing call data to snoop on supervisory board members and journalists. In October 2008 the company confirmed that personal information of 17 million mobile phone customers had 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
  Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
  
   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 International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
  
  , a mobile phone
  Mobile phone
  A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
  
   provider
• T-Systems
  T-Systems
  T-Systems is a worldwide operating ICT provider founded in October 2000. It belongs to Deutsche Telekom AG and its central office is located in Bonn, Germany. Within Deutsche Telekom AG it is responsible for multinational corporations and public-sector institutions. It operates in more than 20...
  
  , a business division focused on providing services 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 Slovak Telekom

Slovak Telekom

Slovak Telekom is the largest telecommunications company operating in Slovakia .-Ownership:It is majority owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom...

 (Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

), 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 the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

), 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 pošta i telekomunikacije; HPT , which was split into two parts in 1999...

 (Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

), which are now fully consolidated into T-Com/T-Home. Furthermore, Magyar Telekom holds majority shares in Cosmote

Cosmote

COSMOTE is the largest mobile network operator in Greece, with 7.9 million subscribers. The company is headquartered in Athens and it is a fully owned subsidiary of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization , the incumbent telecommunications provider in Greece...

 (Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, 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

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

), and T-Crnogorski Telekom (Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

) all of which have also been rebranded and included under the T-Com/T-Home umbrella.

On September 8, 2009 Orange

Orange UK

Orange is a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom, which launched in 1994. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom in 2000, which then adopted the Orange brand for all its other mobile communications activities...

 and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom announced they were in advanced talks to merge their UK operations to create the largest mobile operator with 37% of the market. It is unclear the future of either brand when such deal is completed in November 2009.

TV Towers/Telecommunication towers

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 located atop the Schäferberg hill in Berlin-Wannsee. The tower was built between 1961 and 1964, and is not open to the public...
  
  
• Fernmeldeturm Bremen
• Transmission Tower Geyer
  Geyer
  Geyer is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 4000.- Geography :Geyer is situated northwest of Annaberg-Buchholz, and south of Chemnitz, in the valley of the Geyersbach creek...
  
  
• 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 metres high. The tower stands on a 10 metre high base building, which brings its overall height to 282 metres . Deutsche Telekom operates the tower.There is no...
  
  , Hanover
  Hanover
  Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
  
  
• VW-Tower, Hanover
• Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
  Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
  The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm is a radio telecommunication tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg, Germany....
  
  , Hamburg
  Hamburg
  -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
  
  
• Florianturm
  Florianturm
  The Florianturm is a telecommunications tower and landmark of Dortmund . It is named after St. Florian, the patron saint of gardeners....
  
  , Dortmund
  Dortmund
  Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....
  
  
• Rheinturm Düsseldorf
  Rheinturm Düsseldorf
  The Rheinturm is a 240.5 metre high concrete telecommunications tower in Düsseldorf, capital of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Construction commenced in 1979 and finished in 1981. The Rheinturm carries aerials for directional radio, FM and TV transmitters...
  
  
• Telecommunication Tower Bungsberg, Eutin
  Eutin
  Eutin is the district capital of Eastern Holstein located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2005, it had some 17,000 inhabitants....
  
  
• 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 UHF-transmission is not accessible to the public. The basket of this tower, which belongs to German Telekom Inc. has a diameter of...
  
  
• 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 VHF range. Because of a missing leaseholder, the visitor's area including...
  
  , Köln
  KOLN
  KOLN, digital channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on digital channel 11 in Grand Island. KGIN repeats all KOLN programming, but airs separate commercials...
  
  
• Transmission towers on Brocken
  Sender Brocken
  The Brocken Transmitter is a facility for FM- and TV-transmitters on the Brocken, the highest mountain in northern Germany.The facility includes two transmission towers. The old tower was built between 1936 and 1937....
  
  
• Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower
  Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower
  Hünenburg Telecommunication Tower is a 164 metre tall telecommunicatio tower of Deutsche Telekom AG on Hüneburg near Bielefeld, which was built in 1972 as replacement for a smaller telecommunication tower, built in 1952, which is today used as observation tower...
  
  , Bielefeld
  Bielefeld
  Bielefeld is an independent city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 323,000, it is also the most populous city in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold...
  
  
• 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 Elbhöhen and serves as a transmitting tower for television and radio broadcasts. Due to its visibility over large distances and its unusual form, it has become a landmark of Dresden and the Elbe...
  
  
• Fernsehturm Schwerin-Zippendorf
  Fernsehturm Schwerin-Zippendorf
  thumb|150px|Schweriner Fernsehturmthumb|150px|TV tower and radio mastThe Schweriner Fernsehturm is a 136.5-metre-tall communications tower 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...
  
  , Schwerin
  Schwerin
  Schwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The population, as of end of 2009, was 95,041.-History:...
  
  
• Europaturm
  Europaturm
  The Europaturm is a 337.5 metre high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt am Main in Germany.-History:Designed by architect Erwin Heinle, the tower's construction began in 1974. At its completion five years later, it became the tallest free-standing structure in the Federal Republic of Germany...
  
  , Frankfurt/Main - referred to by Frankfurters as the "Ginnheimer Spargel" (Ginnheim's Asparagus!)
• Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg
  Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg
  The Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg, the tallest structure in Bavaria, is a telecommunication tower in Nuremberg, southern Germany. Also called the Nürnberger Ei because of its egg-shaped tower basket in a height of 185 metres, it is 292 metres high and was built between 1977 and 1980 according to...
  
  
• Fernmeldeturm Mannheim
  Fernmeldeturm Mannheim
  The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a 212.8 metre high concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck in Mannheim, Germany. It was designed by the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and built from 1973 and 1975. It contains transmission facilities for UHR radio services, microwave...
  
  
• 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-Württemberg...
  
  
• Fernmeldeturm Münster
• Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf
• Olympiaturm
  Olympiaturm
  The Olympiaturm in Olympiapark, 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. Since its opening in 1968 the tower has registered over 35 million visitors ....
  
  , 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 Jakobsberg near Porta Westfalica...
  
  , Porta Westfalica
  Porta Westfalica
  Porta Westfalica is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name “Porta Westfalica” is Latin and means “gate to Westphalia”. Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of Westphalia...
  
  
• 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 Schoemberg-Langenbrand at in the Black Forest. The Nordschwarzwaldturm was built in 1974 and is used for directional radio services, FM- and TV-transmissions. The tower is not open for the public.-Transmitted...
  
  , Schömberg
  Schomberg
  -In Germany:*Schömberg in Schlesien *Schömberg, Thuringia*Schömberg, Zollernalbkreis, in the district Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg*Schömberg, Calw, in the district of Calw, Baden-Württemberg-People:...
  
  
• Directional Radio Tower Torfhaus
• Reisenbach Telecommunication Tower
  Reisenbach Telecommunication Tower
  Reisenbach Telecommunication Tower is among the tallest structures in the Northern parts of Baden-Württemberg. Only the two masts of Donebach longwave transmitter 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. Until 1992 it was equipped with an observation deck and was 64 metres tall...
  
  
• Transmission Tower Sonneberg-Bleßberg
  Sonneberg
  Sonneberg is a town in Thuringia, Germany, which is seat of the district Sonneberg.It has long been a centre of toy making and is still well known for this...
  
  

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.It first used only an overhorizon directional link...
  
  
• Gartow-Höhbeck transmitter
  Gartow-Höhbeck transmitter
  Gartow-Höhbeck transmitter is a large facility for FM- and TV-transmission in Lower-Saxony, situated behalf of the community of Gartow and Höhbeck....
  
  
• 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 the Rhön. It uses as antenna tower a 218 metre tall guyed mast of tubular steel, which weighs 245 tons and was built in 1969. The Heidelstein transmitter is property of Deutsche Telekom.-See also:* List...
  
  
• 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 AG at Wesel-Büderich, 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...
  
  
• 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.-External links:...
  
  
• Heidenberg transmitter
• TV-mast Verden

Transmission facilities for long- and mediumwave

• Longwave transmitter Donebach
  Sender Donebach
  The Sender Donebach is a 500-kilowatt longwave radio transmitter operating on 153 kHz and transmitting the program of German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk...
  
   (Programme: DLF)
• Long- and mediumwave transmitter Zehlendorf
  Sender Zehlendorf
  Sender Zehlendorf is a radio transmission facility that has existed since 1936, when a short wave transmitter was built in Zehlendorf as part of the establishment of permanent 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 northwest of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg. It was inaugurated on August 23, 1951 and used until 1959 for...
  
   (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 mediumwave radio transmission mast located at Ehndorf, a village west of Neumünster in Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Republic of Germany. Owned by Deutsche Telekom, the facility broadcasts Deutschlandfunk on 1269 kHz...
  
   (Programme: DLF)
• Mainflingen longwave transmitter
  Mainflingen longwave transmitter
  Mainflingen longwave transmitter is a large facility for commercial longwave transmissions at Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany, which was built in 1956. 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. It went into service in 1962 with a transmission power of 50 kW, on a...
  
  
• 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. This was a 153-metre guyed steel tube mast, insulated with respect to ground. Since the mid nineties...
  
   (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 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.The Hirschlanden transmitter was inaugurated in 1963 as a transmitter for the programming of AFN on 1142 kHz The...
  
   (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 district Pinneberg in Germany. The town has 42,301 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18 km northwest of Hamburg....
  
  
• Mainflingen longwave transmitter
  Mainflingen longwave transmitter
  Mainflingen longwave transmitter is a large facility for commercial longwave transmissions at Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany, which was built in 1956. 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 Jülich, operated by Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems, was a part of the shortwave broadcasting facility at Jülich, 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...
  
  

Acquisitions

2001

• VoiceStream Wireless
  VoiceStream Wireless
  VoiceStream Wireless Inc. traces it roots to the 1994 establishment of VoiceStream Wireless PCS as a subsidiary of Western Wireless Corporation. On May 3, 1999, Western Wireless Corporation spun off its VoiceStream Wireless PCS subsidiary to Western Wireless shareholders, creating an independent,...
  
   for $24 billion

2007

• SunCom Wireless for $2.4 billion
• ImmoScout24

2008

• OTE
  OTE
  Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. , usually known by its Greek initials OTE, is the dominant telecommunications provider in Greece. Formerly a state-owned monopoly, OTE was part-privatized in 1998 and is now listed on the Athens and New York Stock Exchanges...
  
  

2010

• Strato AG
  Strato AG
  Strato AG is an internet service provider headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG. With operations in Germany, France and Poland as well as more than 1.5 million customers and four million domains, Strato is the second-largest webhosting company behind United...
  
  

Music in television advertisements

Telekom AG promoted the career of Ella Larsson

Anna Depenbusch

Anna Depenbusch is a German singer and musician.- Career :Prior to her solo career she was background singer for a group called Orange Blue,In 2005 she released her first Album that united elements of Pop, Jazz and Chanson....

, by featuring her first song, entitled "Lara's Song", in their television advertisement during the winter of 2008.

The company also promote songs from many other musicians, which are available to download for free from the Telekom AG official website.

List of Songs

• Agnes Obel
  Agnes Obel
  Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album, Philharmonics, was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Denmark, Norway, Germany and other European countries. Since June 2011, Philharmonics is certified gold by the Belgian Entertainment Association for...
  
   - Just So
• Birgit Fischer
  Birgit Fischer
  Birgit Fischer is a kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East Germany , then four times representing the reunited nation...
  
   - Winterabend
• Paul Potts
  Paul Potts
  Paul Robert Potts is an English pop opera tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot". As a singer of operatic music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which went to #1 in nine countries...
  
   - 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. It is sung by Calaf, il principe ignoto , who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot...
  
  
• Matt Ryan - There was a Day

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