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Germany: Watchdog rejects concerns about Deutsche Telekom plan

By  |  April 7, 2016

Germany’s telecoms industry regulator rejected rivals’ concerns on Thursday about Deutsche Telekom’s plan to spend a billion euros ($1 bln) on equipping its national copper network for high-speed broadband services.

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    Competitors such as Vodafone and United Internet say the move, using a technology called vectoring, will prevent them from offering differentiated services to customers in inner cities, demoting them to mere resellers.

    The regulator made some concessions, including allowing rivals to install their own equipment in more urban areas, but rejected the argument that the money would have been better spent on newer technology such as fiber optic networks.

    “The competition will not be impaired, neither will other technologies be curtailed,” said Bundesnetzagentur President Jochen Homann.

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