Germany’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn on Tuesday denied the company had engaged in widespread spying on its employees’ contacts to journalists.
Germany's national phone company, Deutsche Telekom spied on its staff for years to see who had unauthorized contacts with journalists, a former security chief at the company said on Saturday.
Deutsche Telekom said on Friday it has hired a retired judge to conduct an internal probe after a spying scandal involving journalists sparked a raid by prosecutors this week.
Prosecutors raided Deutsche Telekom's headquarters on Thursday in a probe into an escalating scandal that has seen Europe's biggest phone company confess to spying on journalists.
Germany has been hit by another privacy scandal, with telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom joining discount food chain Lidl and the state among those accused of secretly tracking individuals.
Thousands protested and strikes shut down parts of Greece on Thursday after Germany's Deutsche Telekom completed a controversial deal giving it joint management of the country's main telecoms operator.
Germany's state bank announced on Tuesday a new effort at further privatizing national phone company Deutsche Telekom with a €3-billion ($4.6-billion) convertible bond offering.
Deutsche Telekom's head declined to comment Thursday on speculation it was looking at buying US mobile operator Sprint Nextel as it reported better-than-expected first quarter results.
Deutsche Telekom is considering a partial or even full take over of America’s third-largest mobile phone provider, Sprint Nextel, a move which would put it on a par with the US market leader AT&T Wireless.
Disgraced former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has paid a "six figure" fine to end a fraud case which has dogged him since July 2006, the public prosecutor in Bonn said Monday.
The man blamed by 16,000 disgruntled Deutsche Telekom shareholders for excesses that wiped out their investments defended his actions in court on Monday in a landmark lawsuit.
Former Team Telekom soigneur, Belgian Jef d'Hont, is set to release a second book in November which will include further details on the doping practises of Jan Ullrich.
Europe's biggest telecommunications operator, Deutsche Telekom, said on Wednesday that it expected sales in fixed-line operations to decline by four to six percent this year.
