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iPhone Users Eat ‘30 Times’ More Data Than Others In Germany - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jan 2008 02:40 AM PST

German iPhone users consume about 30 times more data than mere mortals, T-Mobile says (via Unstrung). “The average Internet usage for an iPhone customer is more than 100 MBytes. This…

Industry Moves: Jamba Appoints Nokia Veteran Mauro Montanaro CEO - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Jan 2008 03:06 AM PST

Nearly four months after the departure of former head Lucy Hood, mobile entertainment firm Jamba has appointed Nokia (NYSE: NOK) veteran Mauro Montanaro as its new CEO. Forty-three year old…

70K iPhones Sold in Germany: T-Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 26 Jan 2008 12:33 PM PST

T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), has said that in Germany, it has sold about 70,000 Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhones since launch 11 weeks ago. These numbers come…

Mobile IM To Triple By 2013 In Europe: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 22 Jan 2008 03:20 AM PST

Mobile instant messaging (IM) adoption in Europe is expected to triple, despite network operator fears that IM will eat into the revenues of their lucrative text messaging services, according to…

European DVB-H: Mobile 3.0 Wins German License; Orange Bids In France - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 16 Jan 2008 07:30 PM PST

Germany has awarded the nationwide platform for DVB-H to Mobile 3.0, a JV between Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD), which has been running a DMB service since 2006, and Neva Media,…

Nokia To Close Germany Plant, Cut Up To 2,300 Jobs - 2 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 15 Jan 2008 03:38 PM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced plans to close its Bochum, Germany plant by the middle of this year and may cut up to 2,300 jobs, citing lack of competitiveness at…

Facebook Gets Investment From German Online Entrepreneurs Samwer Brothers; Between $10M-$15M - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 Jan 2008 01:22 PM PST

Updated below: Facebook is continuing to raise money, though this one seems to be a relatively smaller amount and mainly strategic for European expansion: it has taken an undisclosed amount…

Dutch Operator KPN Finds Success In Germany With Cheap Calls, Not Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 19 Dec 2007 04:48 AM PST

Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Base, a brand it had imported from Belgium. Indeed,…

Ofcom Finds Global Mobile Growth Surging - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 12 Dec 2007 05:17 AM PST

Mobile is the lynch pin of the communications sector, driving its growth and accounting for 53 percent of total telecoms revenues, according to the UK regulator Ofcom in their exhaustive…

Germany’s T-Mobile iPhone Sales Lagging? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 10 Dec 2007 05:07 AM PST

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has lost their case in Germany to stop T-Mobile from selling the iPhone exclusively, but their court battle may have damaged sales at their rival German network.…

Germany’s T-Mobile Considering Suing Vodafone - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 05 Dec 2007 02:50 AM PST

Now that a Hamburg Court has ruled that T-Online has the right to sell a locked iPhone in Germany, the Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) unit is thinking of suing Vodafone…

Germany’s T-Mobile Wins Right To Sell iPhone Exclusively; Dumps Contract-Free Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 04 Dec 2007 07:09 AM PST

T-Mobile can sell the iPhone exclusively in Germany, after a German court overturned a temporary injunction won by rival Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to block the sales of the handsets (via…

Interview: Lee Fenton, COO, Jamba: New Focus On Europe, Music, Simpsons - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 30 Nov 2007 10:26 AM PST

News Corp and Verisign’s Jamba mobile content JV will base its CEO in Berlin, become MySpace’s m-commerce facilitator in six European countries and push its new mobile/desktop music store out…

Debitel To Offer 600 Euro Rebate For German IPhone - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 27 Nov 2007 03:48 PM PST

German reseller Debitel has launched a spirited bid for iPhone users following T-Mobile’s capitulation into offering an unlocked version of the iPhone. T-Mobile is offering the unlocked iPhone for 999…

Germany, Britain, Netherlands Attack EU Plan Backing DVB-H As Mobile TV Standard - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 26 Nov 2007 04:07 PM PST

The EU’s controversial decision to back DVB-H technology as the standard for mobile TV broadcasts in all member countries is under attack from Germany, Britain and the Netherlands, reports the…

T-Mobile Germany Offers IPhone Sans Contract For $1,478 - 3 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Nov 2007 05:46 AM PST

T-Mobile has announced it will now start selling iPhones without a contract, for 999 euros (US$1,478), as opposed to 399 euros with a two-year contract. Any customer can now have…

Vodafone Gets IPhone Injunction In Germany; DT Responds - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 20 Nov 2007 03:03 AM PST

Vodafone Germany has succeeded in getting a restraining order against T-Mobile prohibiting the carrier from selling the iPhone in Germany, reports Dow Jones. “Specifically, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is questioning the…

Vodafone Sues Over IPhone Deal In Germany, Claims It Is Original Sin - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 19 Nov 2007 08:02 PM PST

Wow, talk about your sore losers… Right after Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin spat the dummy over not getting the iPhone contract saying “it’s a pretty poor experience” Vodafone…

EU Telecom Plan Reaction: Market Leaders Critical, Upstarts Hopeful - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 15 Nov 2007 03:58 AM PST

This week’s European Commission proposal to overhaul the telecoms industry in order to boost broadband and wireless services competition has been met by a chorus of criticism. Europe’s dominant operators,…

iPhone Friday: Germans First In Europe To Pick Up The Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 Nov 2007 01:48 AM PST

Germans will get bragging rights to owning the iPhone before UK customers this Friday. The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) store at Schildergasse in Cologne will open at 12.01am CET (1.01am…

Round-Up: T-Mobile/LogicaCMG Lawsuit; More Hutch Sale Rumors; The Sun On .mobi - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Mon 22 Oct 2007 06:55 AM PST

-- T-Mobile: The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) mobile subsidiary has filed a lawsuit for £16 million ($32.5 million) against system integrator LogicaCMG, after the latter overran on a project to…

Neuhaus Parnters Invests In 3D Mobile Game Company Fishlabs - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 15 Oct 2007 11:05 PM PST

German 3D mobile game developer Fishlabs has closed its first round of funding led by Neuhaus Partners. Fishlabs will use the funds to “add connectivity features to a portfolio of…

Deutsche Telekom Wins DVB-H Mobile TV Specturm in Germany - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 15 Oct 2007 10:54 AM PST

Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT) T-Systems has won control of German radio frequencies allotted for the DVB-H mobile TV broadcast standard in Germany, the country’s networks regulator decided. Who will build…

T-Mobile To Launch IPhone In Germany - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 19 Sep 2007 02:12 AM PST

Germany’s Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) has announced a Wednesday news conference in Berlin, reports AP, and considering the reports that Steve Jobs is in that country on Wednesday it’s not…

T-Mobile To Offer IPhone In Five Countries: Rumor - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 16 Sep 2007 03:27 PM PST

The latest rumor about the iPhone (from undisclosed sources in the Financial Times Deutschland) is that T-Mobile will be the exclusive distributor not only in Germany, but also in Austria,…