Press Releases Telefónica Germany

The integration of the technology division with the enterprise segment “O₂ Business” is paying off: Nine months after merging the units, telecommunications company O₂ Telefónica reports several new customer acquisitions as well as ambitious new digitalization projects.

Markus Haas will continue to serve in his capacity as CEO until a suitable successor has been identified and approved by the Supervisory Board.

Around 5,000 expansion measures since the beginning of the year are steadily improving connectivity for consumers and businesses in the country

As the first German telecommunications company, O₂ Telefónica is teaming up with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, to make its product available to its customers for free.

With an excellent value-for-money ratio, telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica Deutschland performed well in the second quarter of 2025. The company gained 184,000 mobile contract customers in its traditionally strong private customer business. In addition, customer growth is fueled by successes in the business customer segment and new or expanded partnerships.

Telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica now covers more than half of its electricity needs with wind power from the German North Sea and Baltic Sea. People and businesses using the o2 mobile network are now very likely to be using electricity from renewable sources directly from their local coastline.

Telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica has comprehensively expanded its mobile network in the first six months of 2025. With around 3,500 expansion measures since the beginning of the year, the company is ensuring noticeable improvements wherever users need them for mobile telephony and data usage.

Telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica has made a robust start to the 2025 financial year. In a first quarter characterized by intense competition, the company gained 164,000 new mobile contract customers.

Telecommunications company O₂ Telefónica and infrastructure provider 5G Synergiewerk are breaking new ground in network expansion by launching a nationwide rollout of 5G streetlights. This will improve the mobile network for smartphone users and businesses in busy city centers and tourist regions.

The technology company Siemens and the telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica are launching a partnership in Germany to advance the networking of the water industry with a new connectivity solution for customized 5G mobile networks.

Telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica has already made significant progress in network expansion at the start of the year. In recent weeks, the company has implemented more than 1,600 measures to further increase the performance of the O₂ mobile network.

At Mobile World Congress, O₂ Telefonica in Germany announced that they have selected Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN) as cloud provider for network workloads.

Collaboration harnesses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for resilient, high-performance, cloud-native 5G deployment of Nokia’s Policy Controller Functions, ushering in a new era of customer experience.

Together with Ericsson, O₂ Telefónica wants to actively promote the development of open and interoperable mobile networks.

Telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica closed the 2024 financial year with a strong operating result (EBITDA) and continued dynamic customer growth. With 824,000 net new contract connections in the reporting period, the company grew faster than the market.

The Supervisory Board of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG has extended the contract of CEO Markus Haas (52) for a further three years from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028

A German-French consortium establishes a 5G highway corridor to achieve gigabit-speed connectivity on the road. Tower companies (TowerCos) Vantage Towers and TOTEM, mobile network operators O₂ Telefónica and Orange, as well as the University of Applied Sciences Saarland (htw saar) have entered into a pioneering cooperation.

O₂ Telefónica is integrating quantum technologies into its mobile network to improve performance and explore new data security standards. As the digital landscape evolves, quantum technologies are providing new methods to solve complex computational problems that are difficult for classical systems to solve, while also enabling quantum-resistant encryption.

O₂ Telefónica has achieved a breakthrough in the telecommunications industry: just six months after the launch of the innovative 5G Cloud Core, one million customers in Germany can already use the advanced, cloud-based core network for mobile surfing and telephony.

O₂ Telefónica is creating greater flexibility in its own transport network with the so-called “whiteboxing” approach. With this new concept, the telecommunications provider ensures that the software and hardware of the numerous switching centers in the transport network – so-called IP routers – are decoupled from each other. This enables the company to remotely install vendor-independent software updates on the existing routers.

Telecommunications provider O₂ Telefónica accelerated its growth in mobile postpaid customers and further increased its profitability in the third quarter of 2024.

Mallik Rao from 5 November 2024 “Chief Technology & Enterprise Officer” of O₂ Telefónica with a contract term until 4 November 2028

O₂ Telefónica introduces new contract tariffs for its core brand O₂. The O₂ Mobile tariff portfolio will be simplified and underpins O₂'s claim to be the value-for-money leader in the German market. On 6 November 2024, O₂'s new mobile contract tariffs will be launched across all sales channels.

For a year now, O₂ Telefónica has been offering the real 5G, also known as 5G-Standalone (5G SA) or “5G Plus”, across its entire 5G network. The rollout of the 5G network began in October 2020. Just three years later, the telecommunications provider opened access to 5G Standalone for its customers.

O₂ Telefónica has reached a milestone in the further development of 5G. By bundling four frequency bands in 5G standalone mode, the company achieved peak download speeds of more than 1.7 gigabits per second. For comparison: that is almost twice as fast as the most powerful commercial fiber-optic connections currently available.