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1&1 Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KgaA, the German company that marketed IT trade show CeBit ’99, has decided to delve further into its new focus on Internet services following the success of its most recent marketing efforts. “Now that a market share in the mass market is up for grabs, we must be there,” said board […]

Avantis and Deutsche Telekom have signed the first transfrontier telecoms contract in Europe, signalling the transition of Germany’s Internet epicenter from the eastern part of the country to the west. Total telecoms infrastructure for Internet, telephone and data traffic will be implemented by Deutsche Telekom at Avantis, the European Science and Business Park, which straddles […]

In the context of the current scramble of Internet companies for a share of Europe’s broadband potential, the sale of cable network operator TeleColumbus to DB Investor, Deutsche Bank’s holding company, is a high profile move. The company, which is jointly owned by German energy companies RWE and Veba, will be officially sold on July […]

EU trustbuster Karel van Miert told Deutsche Telekom (Dtag), which controls cable access to 18 million homes, to sell the network. Unsurprisingly, potential buyers are getting in line at Dtag’s door. The line-up is said to include media giant Bertelsmann, which is currently the biggest publisher of books in English, and Deutsche Bank, energy companies, […]

Secretary of State at the German Ministry of the Interior Claus Henning Schapper announced a dedicated Internet search engine for tracking online crime at the inaugural speech at the Sixth German Conference on IT Security, held by the federal office for IT security May 17 through 19 in Bonn. The engine is to be developed […]

Finanztrend, an Internet financial services joint venture between search engine company Endemann!! Internet.de AG and Financial.de AG is scheduled to go live May 26. According to the terms of the agreement, the new German financial online service will present stock exchange information, charts, topical news from various groups and dates of IPOs. It will also […]

The Axel Springer Verlag, publishers of a wide range of print and online titles, including Germany’s top tabloid, Bild Zeitung, have produced an extensive analysis of the German IT and telecoms market. In the 74-page study, a detailed analysis is given of dynamic market developments in telecommunications and information technology. The study forecasts sales of […]

Although there are many clouds on the horizon, in the form of the ongoing Olivetti bid for Telecom Italia set to launch Friday, the need for shareholder approval and protests from Italian politicians at the thought of German political control of their Telecom, the two companies’ boards have assented to a merger representing a market […]

INTERSHOP Communications, leading provider of e-commerce systems, is hitting the road to give classes on e-commerce opportunities. A travelling e-commerce college will call on 20 ISP partners in 25 German, Austrian and Swiss cities, April 20 through July 15. E-commerce sales top USD 15 billion worldwide. In Germany alone, Internet sales have almost reached DEM […]

In Europe, cross-border regions are the flavor of the month. Tritone, a consortium-based telco made up of energy utilities, other telcos and venture capitalists, recently started a new wireline, datacom and ISP network for the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, the Land of Charlemagne. The move is in keeping with the EU’s transition in political focus from nation […]

In Germany, an end is coming to long waits for data transmission via Internet Browsers. In April, Deutsche Telekom was first with T-DSL: an ADSL-based Internet access system which is one hundred times faster than ISDN. The service is initially only available to business clients in eight major cities. By the end of the year, […]

RWE and VEBA, Germany’s energy giants, have sold the wireline business of their joint venture telco Otelo to Mannesmann Arcor for DEM 2.25 billion (US$1.24 billion). The acquisition of Otelo’s wireline business includes the wholly owned subsidiary www.germany.net with more than 600,000 Internet clients and rights to Otelo’s 11,000 Km of optical fiber cable. This […]