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Effective 1 January 2019, Telefónica Deutschland and MediaMarktSaturn Deutschland will extend their successful sales cooperation by another five years. In addition, both partners intend to expand their existing cooperation, in particular in the online segment. The two companies have now signed the corresponding agreement.

No other network operator is better than O₂ when it comes to providing customers in Munich with LTE - this is the result of a recent network test for mobile communications coverage in the Bavarian state capital by specialist magazine connect. Overall, the new O₂ network in Munich achieved a “good” rating (830 points), having significantly improved in terms of network quality compared to the last nationwide network test in 2017 (result “sufficient”).

Telefónica Deutschland is currently pushing the nationwide LTE expansion on a massive scale. In order to enhance its customers’ network experience, the company is constructing several new LTE stations in both urban and rural areas and increasing existing capacities. In the first half of 2018, the telecommunications provider already installed more than 3,000 additional LTE stations or upgraded existing LTE sites. This corresponds to approx. 120 LTE upgrades per week – at peak times even 200 per week. Thanks to this comprehensive network expansion, even more customers can browse the web at high speed in more and more places, stream videos smoothly, share their pictures with other people within seconds and make calls in the best HD voice quality thanks to voice telephony via LTE (Voice over LTE; VoLTE).

After growth in the first half of the year, Telefónica Deutschland is on track to meet its targets for 2018. From January to June, the company increased its operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA) adjusted for exceptional and regulatory effects by 6.1% to EUR 927 million. This was driven mainly by further synergies from the merger with E-Plus as well as the cost-efficient acquisition of new customers. Adjusted for regulatory effects, revenues increased by 0.3% to EUR 3.55 billion in the first half of the year. Revenues from devices and mobile services had a positive effect here. The number of mobile contract customers rose by 333,000 in the second quarter thanks to attractive new tariffs. Mobile data use grew particularly sharply in this period with an increase of 54%, with the new O₂ Free tariffs with extra-large data packages playing a crucial role.

On its way to the mobile communications network of the future, Telefónica Deutschland is cooperating with NGN FIBER NETWORK KG (NGN) from Lower Franconia in order to have parts of its mobile communications locations connected to high-speed fibre-optic lines. The goal of the network operator is to further improve the performance of its own LTE network, while laying the foundation for a nationwide 5G network that offers significantly better data rates, higher capacities and extremely low latency times.

The Telefónica Group has published a new edition of its Digital Manifesto, in which the telecommunications company makes a global commitment to a “new digital deal” so that digitalisation benefits everybody in times of rapid technological, political and social change. In a guest article, Markus Haas, CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, explains why many existing laws and regulations no longer meet the challenges of the digital age, what he hopes will emerge from more intensive collaboration between business, politics and society, and how Telefónica is putting the Digital Manifesto into action in Germany.

The network integration is a major project unparalleled in Europe and is currently in full swing across Germany, making great progress in all regions.

CEO Álvarez-Pallete stands by the German mobile communications subsidiary.

The supervisory board of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG today elected Laura Abasolo García de Baquedano as its new chairperson. The 45-year-old Spaniard succeeds Eva Castillo Sanz, who resigned from the position on 25 April in order to pursue new professional challenges.

The chairperson of the supervisory board, Eva Castillo Sanz, has informed the company´s management board and the supervisory board that she will resign from her position as chairperson of the supervisory board with immediate effect.

OIBDA before exceptional effects²⁾ up 5.4% adjusted for regulatory effects³⁾ | Revenues grow by 0.4% adjusted for regulatory effects⁴⁾ | Mobile service revenues continue positive trend | 157,000 mobile subscriptions added in the quarter | Mobile data use continues to grow sharply: +56% among O₂ contract customers with LTE

Nokia and Telefónica Germany are taking Nokia’s “factory in a box” (FiaB) concept – a modular, portable production line in standard cargo containers – one step closer to real-world deployment.

The future government has included it in the coalition agreement and we firmly believe it as well: Germany needs a significant impulse for broadband expansion. We also need an overall strategy for mobile communications in order to be leaders in the new 5G technology and ensure the sustainability of Germany as an economic centre. An expensive frequency auction with additional economically disproportionate expenses contradicts this goal. In order for us to close the gaps in Germany’s mobile communications networks and become a leading 5G market, we need mostly one thing: a "mobile communications pact for Germany." I have suggested this today to the Federal Network Agency advisory board responsible for the allocation of mobile communication frequencies.

Telefónica Deutschland published its Annual Report 2017 today (link geschaeftsbericht.telefonica.de). The online magazine accompanying the Annual Report is available under the meta theme “Mobile Freedom”. Alongside insights into the current strategy of Telefónica Deutschland and highlights from the financial year 2017, the website chapters Customers, Employees and Society show the differing facets of mobile freedom.

On February 27th 2018, representatives of Telefónica Deutschland and Huawei underlined their successful cooperation within the framework of the Munich TechCity project during a meeting at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The partners signed a new agreement at the Huawei stand in Hall 1 of the Fira Gran Via exhibition center. This extends the cooperation within the framework of the TechCity project in the technology standard 4.5G by three years and explicitly includes 5G.

Telefónica Deutschland has started the company’s sweeping digital transformation into a mobile customer and digital champion by 2022. The programme, dubbed Digital4Growth, puts the needs of customers and customer experience in the Digital Age consistently at the centre of focus.

OIBDA before exceptional effects 1) up 2.6 percent despite impact of regulation | Mobile service revenue returns to growth path | 737,000 contract customers added in the past year | Mobile data usage up 55 percent in 2017 | Outlook for 2018: Revenue before regulatory effects broadly stable | OIBDA before exceptional effects and regulatory effects flat to slightly positive

Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland are planning to accelerate the connection of their mobile phone sites to fast fibre-optic cables. The two companies have agreed on a pilot project to connect parts of their mobile locations to each other’s high-speed backhaul broadband lines. As a result of the cooperation, even more customers will benefit directly from high-speed data coverage via LTE (4G).

Telefónica Deutschland will be the first network operator in Germany to provide voice calls via LTE and WiFi for all customers of its home brands and partner brands. This includes both postpaid and prepaid customers. When making calls with these technologies, so-called “Voice over LTE (VoLTE)” and “Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi),” customers benefit from improved voice quality and expanded network coverage via LTE and WiFi at no additional cost. Telefónica Deutschland will gradually implement the services across the individual brands and customer groups, and plans to have completed the process by the end of March 2018.