Deutsche Telekom AG : Germany

In the course of the coming years, the corporation Deutsche Telekom AG will be systematically restructured into a group. In specific markets characterized by particularly dynamic growth (mobile communications, for instance) subsidiaries have been founded under private law in order to obtain strategic flexibility within the framework of the group structure and seize market opportunities. At the end of 1996, the group employed about 201,000 People.

Deutsche Telekom AG is Europe’s number-one telecommunications provider and the world’s third largest carrier: At the end of 1996 the group had about four million mobile communications customers. The number of telephone accesses exceeds 44 million (includingwell over five million ISDN basic channels). Deutsche Telekom AG has the world’s largest cable television network (nearly 1 7 million households connected).