German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has vowed to address what is widely considered to be one of the weakest areas of the country's telecommunications network: internet on trains.
How many times do you check emails, news sites and social networking sites each day on your smartphone? Most people have no idea, say a group of German scientists, who have developed an app to help people regain control.
Deutsche Telekom is planning to cut at least 6,000 and possibly as many as 8,000 jobs at its IT subsidiary T-Systems, the business newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Monday.
Although more than 85 percent of German households are connected to the internet, many consumers are rightly unimpressed with the service they get from providers a study published on Monday suggested.
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom said on Thursday that multi-billion-euro writedowns in the United States had pushed it into a net loss of €5.255 billion in 2012.
Deutsche Telekom will cut 1,200 jobs in Germany by June in what it termed "reorganization" rather than a downscaling operation, the <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Thursday.
Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Finnish and German engineering giants Nokia and Siemens, said on Wednesday it was shutting down one of its German units with the potential loss of 1,000 jobs.
The German government is riven over whether telecom companies should be allowed to keep customers' data indefinitely. Critics say easier police access to data could have helped solve recently-revealed Neo-nazi murders.
Seven companies, among them Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, have purchased tender documentation for the upcoming sale of a majority stake of state-controlled Telekom Serbia, officials said Friday.
Europe's first auction of "fourth generation" frequencies, which promise to revolutionise what mobile phones can do, raised €4.4 billion ($5.4 billion), German authorities said Thursday.
O2 Germany announced plans on Monday to be the first major mobile phone provider in the country that would no longer block internet voice (VoIP) applications on devices.
Computer giant Apple is to open its first store in Germany, the company has announced. A link on Apple’s homepage put an end to speculation over the company’s plans for Germany by announcing plans to open the republic’s first Apple store in Munich. Apple is also looking for store employees over the Internet.
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has offered workers in Bochum, Germany a chance to transfer to the new plant in Romania. Nokia’s 44 percent surge in net profit over the last quarter has stirred further anger among those affected by Nokia’s plant closure in Bochum and has intensified criticism.
