Press Releases Telefónica Germany

Tangible customer benefits due to network enhancements and attractive new products | Revenues grow 2.9% y-o-y to 1.90 billion Euro | Mobile service revenues increase by 1.5% y-o-y | Strong underlying OIBDA (+5.7% y-o-y) reflects focus on customer base development | Outlook and synergy target for 2015 confirmed | CEO Thorsten Dirks: “We came out of the blocks well at the start of the year”

Telefónica Deutschland is using the merger with E-Plus to position itself as leading digital telecommunications company. This goal is also the title of the presently published Annual Report 2014: Building the leading digital Telco. It documents our strategy and shows first successful steps on our path towards becoming a digital telecommunications provider.

Number of customer accesses increased to 47.7 million at year-end 2014 | Integration process fully on track with first milestones successfully completed | Combined annual revenues of 7.79 billion Euro in 2014 | Underlying combined(1) OIBDA reached 1.46 billion Euro in 2014 | OIBDA excluding material extraordinary effects to increase by more than 10% in 2015

On January 2, 2015 Telefónica Deutschland has closed the deal regarding the planned transfer of yourfone GmbH (a company of E-Plus) with long-time business associate Drillisch AG as announced in mid-November. Drillisch acquires yourfone GmbH including all trademark rights, customers and staff.

374 thousand net additions in mobile postpaid customer segment | Sustained improvement in revenue trend | Strong conversion of operating cash flow into free cash flow | Integration of E-Plus Group started at full speed | Confirmed synergies of more than 5 billion Euro

Telefónica Deutschland has completed the acquisition of the E-Plus Group.

Today Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG is beginning with the implementation of the cash capital increase for the partial financing of the cash consideration for the acquisition of E-Plus.

Telefónica Deutschland has received the EU Commission’s final clearance for the acquisition of the E-Plus Group.

Positive indications for revenue performance in a competitive market | Significant increase in postpaid net additions | Strong generation of Free Cash Flow

Telefónica is launching its first smartphone with Firefox OS in Germany. For the first time, O₂ customers can now use an innovative open operating system developed by a non-profit organization: the Mozilla Foundation.

Thorsten Dirks nominated as new CEO | Markus Haas in charge for all joint operations as COO | Rachel Empey takes responsibility for finance and strategy as CFO | Munich remains headquarters of the company

Today, Telefónica Germany brings its latest cloud offer on the market: Digital Phone from O₂ is a telephone system for business customers.

Double digit growth of Non-SMS data revenues in a competitive market | Free Cash Flow increases to 107 million Euro | LTE pop coverage increases and achieves 50 percent end of April

Consistent execution of corporate strategy in a competitive market | Growth in data revenues of 21.7% | Strong Free Cash Flow generation

Very successful debut on the international bond markets | High demand led to more than 3x oversubscribed orderbook | Deal volume upsized to €600 million

Data revenues increase by 20.2 percent | 110,000 new prepaid customers | Revenue trends stabilizing | Investments lay the foundation for future success

O₂ My Handy is now also available in the online shop | Down payment from 1 EUR already

Data revenue shows strong growth of 24.6 percent | LTE available in all high-speed areas in Germany | Highly dynamic market in the second quarter 2013

24.1 percent higher data revenue | Successful launch of O₂ Blue All-In portfolio | Stable wireless service revenues and OIBDA development

Telefónica to extend its position as fixed network provider | Telefónica's transition from common subscriber line to high speed network of Telekom | Customers benefit from the integrated and future-proof range of fixed and mobile network | Risk sharing enables faster network expansion for Telekom

7.0 percent increase in wireless service revenues | Over 10 million contract customers | 31 percent increase in data revenues | 11.3 percent growth in OIBDA

Check the status of the nearest base station yourself| Available via web or app| More precise network coverage maps with new functions

O₂ customers can now also pay for music, e-books and films with their mobile phone bill. Telefónica Deutschland is the first operator in Germany who offers its customers such a service.

12.5 percent growth in OIBDA | Data revenue up 28.3 percent | Wireless service revenue up 5.6 percent | 10.3 percent more contract customers

50 MBit/s for more than 11 million households | High-speed DSL, starting from 14.99 euros a month | Three-month free trial period for Speed option