Tuesday, December 4 ¬ took place on the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom, less than a month after the noisy resignation former number one â € ™ Kai Uwe Ricke and the subsequent appointment of Renà © Obermann, former head of the division T-Mobile , as CEO and Chairman of the Board of the German colossus. A month later, today 6 December, in Bonn's new CEO has met the international press for clarity on the new course of the Group.
The partial gap costs (and staff) performed by Ricke à ¨ The first priority of top management and the improved services to customers, and the € ™ sign of a strong interaction between the different souls of the Group at the side of the Obermann are seated two new positions, Timotheus Hà ¶ ttges, assumed responsibility for the business to sales services subsidiary T-Com, and Hamid Akhavan, head of Product Development and Innovation and Group CTO at T-Mobile. Grand marshal event â € ™ à ¨ was Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Board, which stressed that the road taken by Obermann in selecting new members is entirely in line with the strategy-oriented œcustomer â € €? long-term, Deutsche Telekom, which will be announced next spring.
Remain in the saddle the other two members of the Board and specifically Karl-Gerhard Eick, reconfirmed the guidance â € ™ area Group (© and Deputy CEO) and Lothar Pauly, CEO of T-Systems (a division of DT entries confirmed damage still engaged in talks with dense Atos Origin, Capgemini, and EDS to create a mega joint venture in the field of ICT services outsourced) and in charge of development strategies and procurement â € ™ network and IT infrastructure and customer business.
Value added services on fixed and mobile networks
What will be, is the new Board, the present of Deutsche Telekom, dealing with accounts that do not add up (the € ™ last quarter showed a decrease â € ™ net income by 34% annually) and a number of subscribers decline (1.5 million people lost on the road since January 2006), despite growth forecasts € ™ confirmed for the current year which would lead to an EBITDA close to 20 billion euros on a turnover of about 62 billion?
Obermann € ™ began by emphasizing the absolute importance of customer focus to reach € ™ ultimate goal, one that seeks a future for Deutsche Telekom œservice company â € €? reference in the telco industry € ™, â € straddles œunâ € ™ Tailored for the user € ™ based on a network on top quality and maximum efficiency in service delivery € ™ €?. For the 43-year old manager, very critical of the â € œtante speculation surfaced in recent days about the new Board of Deutsche Telekom € ', the first challenge to be overcome seems to be to make a step change € ™ company that has suffered perhaps pià ¹ due to the exercise price pressure from competition on the local market.
œLâ € â € â € ™ access "the bet of Obermann declared â €" and communications services to real value added, via fixed and mobile networks with a very large bandwidth, are our core business. Customers are the heart of our company, we have the task to understand its needs and propose them in the single most specific way, from a single source of service, and more specifically to Germany on a €?. A sort of public apology, in some ways, calling into question the previous management and, most importantly, it changes the paradigm of market approach from Deutsche Telekom: ¨ priority to meet customer demand, home and business as they are, and not easily to â € ¹ œautocelebrareâ €? portfolio of products and services of the various T-Com and T-Mobile.

For interactive TV approx € ™ Ã ¨ time
The certainty of that first Obermann à ¨ â € œil number of active lines broadband couldn which continues to grow, like the Internet traffic generated on fixed and mobile networks next-generation of mobile broadband communications will change the way in which goes online or make phone calls but the fixed networks to advanced VDSL technology will remain a cornerstone of interactive services of tomorrow and the starting point for the convergence between IT and telecomunicazioniâ €?. Leaving white spaces on the possible descent in the field of Dt on the front of Internet TV and HDTV services, Obermann has finally concluded his speech by noting two things. On the one hand confirm that it is vital to revive Dt business assets tied to Internet services on fixed networks at high speed and support with competitive prices pià ¹ demand for mobile services: from the other € ™ speak badly about € ™ organization to dress Deutsche Telekom with new clothes, those of a â € œOne Service Company €? where many of the strategic functions (such as corporate governance, regulation, communication and executive development) of the various divisions will be centralized and formed a special € ™ Academy, which will take shape in the first half of 2007.

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