Deutsche Telekom

Telefonica O2 is to merge its mobile and fixed-line businesses in Germany in a bid to target the converged services market.

T-Mobile-parent Deutsche Telekom appeared to take investors by surprise yesterday by issuing a profits warning caused by weakening performance at its business units in the US, UK and Poland.

T-Mobile USA has made a move into the fast-growing machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile communications space with the introduction of an embedded SIM module, reports the Wall Street Journal today.

Deutsche Telekom is facing calls from key shareholders to consider selling its ailing UK mobile operation, T-Mobile UK, reports the Financial Times.

The Financial Times speculates that UK competition authorities would be unlikely to veto a move by France Telecom to buy Deutsche Telekom's UK mobile business.

Deutsche Telekom reported a EUR1.124 billion net loss for first-quarter 2009 as the German telecoms giant was forced to book a EUR1.8 billion write-down at its struggling UK mobile unit, T-Mobile UK.

The Financial Times reports that Deutsche Telekom will revamp its mobile-phone subsidiary in the UK and take a "long-term" view despite coming under pressure to sell the flagging unit.