CAMPBELL, CA — Excerpts released from market research firm Infonetics Research from its “Service Provider Capex, Revenue, and Capex by Equipment Type” report, predict that capex is on track to be up close to 4 percent this year led by Asia and North America. The report tracks telecom operator revenue and capital expenditures (capex) by operator type, region, and equipment segment and provides insight into telecom spending trends. “With three quarters of the data in [...]

In addition to T-Mobile announcing that they’ll start selling Apple products in 2013, is the potentially more interesting fact that they’ll stop selling subsidized phones. Speaking at Deutsche Telekom’s annual investor conference, T-Mobile CEO John Legere confirmed that subsidized phones will no longer be a part of the company’s business model next year, with consumers either paying full price for devices, or choosing to pay the device off in installments. T-Mobile will offer the iPhone [...]

Insisting that MetroPCS and T-Mobile are “cheating shareholders” through a “drastically undervalued” deal, MetroPCS investors have filed suit to block the deal. The deal would give Deutsche Telekom a 74% stake in the combined company, and involves a 1-for-2 reverse stock split and a $1.5 billion cash payment to shareholders at $4.09 per share. The deal also involves shutting down the MetroPCS network, and migrating users slowly over to the eventual T-Mobile LTE network. However, [...]

As leaks had suggested yesterday, Deutsche Telekom’s board this morning approved a deal that would combine T-Mobile and MetroPCS. According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal will exist as a reverse merger, with MetroPCS technically acquiring T-Mobile, but retaining the T-Mobile brand. That move provides Deutsche Telekom with a publicly-traded stock they could sell over time to reduce their U.S. ownership stake (their interest in the U.S. market has long been tenuous). Deutsche Telekom [...]

The folks at Mozilla are getting ready to launch their new HTML5-based Firefox OS for smartphones, and Sprint appears to be one of seven global carriers who’ll be initially offering the devices to consumers. The new devices will be manufactured by TCL Communication Technology (Alcatel) and ZTE, and will first be made available on Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telef nica and Telenor. “Due to the optimization of the platform for entry-level smartphones [...]

T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom has thrown cold water on a recent rumor that the company is looking at an acquisition of MetroPCS, despite the fact that the two companies use incompatible wireless network technologies. “There is no need for us to enter into any kind of deal at this point in time,” said Deutsche Telekom CFO Timotheus H ttges at the recent J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference. “There’s always a perception that [...]

T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom last week confirmed that they’ll be keeping T-Mobile in the U.S. market, using the $4 billion in cash, spectrum and roaming deals from AT&T to build out an LTE network. Speaking at the Mobile Congress in Barcelona this week, T-Mobile says the LTE build will begin once they’ve finished their HSPA+ 42 (theoretically capable of 42 Mbps) upgrades, and that they won’t be proceeding to HSPA+ 84 as they had originally [...]

Deutsche Telekom CTO Olivier Baujard and BT’s Sean Williams share a panel at the Broadband World Forum Truly mobile usage is a for the most part a myth, according to the CTO of Deutsche Telekom. Speaking in his keynote address at the Broadband World Forum on Wednesday, Olivier Baujard said that according to Deutsche Telekom’s data analysis, 80 per cent of traffic for a typical customer is generated from just three cells. “One is home, [...]

Deutsche Telekom (XETRA: DTE.DE) may be Germany’s top broadband provider, reaching an estimated 29 million DSL subscribers by the end of this year, but the provider has a bullish outlook on Fiber to the Home (FTTH). According to a Financial Times Deutschland report citing unnamed sources, DT plans to create a new FTTH subsidiary with 1,500 employees. Dubbed FTTH GmbH, the subsidiary’s goal is to enable quicker FTTH network roll outs throughout Germany. Initially, FTTH [...]

Dave Burstein at DSL Prime directs our attention to the fact that overseas, Deutsche Telekom is now selling “up to” 40 Mbps LTE wireless broadband service with a 50 gigabyte monthly cap. The high speeds and high cap don’t come cheap, with the company offering the service as a traditional broadband alternative for 89.95 Euros (or about $125). The service is launching in Cologne, Germany, with 100 additional markets slated for launch over the coming [...]