DT reports international operations represented more than 64% of overall revenues
German telco Deutsche Telekom posted 17.85 billion euro ($19.68 billion) in fourth quarter revenues last year, climbing 5% compared to the same quarter in 2014. International operations, which include its T-Mobile US holdings, accounted for 64.3% of the group’s quarterly revenues.
Quarterly profits reached 946 million euro, compared to a net loss of 110 million euro in Q4 2014, with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization EBITDA for the quarter increased from 3.75 billion euro in 2014 to 5.11 billion euro last year.
In Germany, the operator recorded revenues of 5.66 billion euro in revenues, down 1.1% compared to Q4 2014. The domestic operation accounted for 31.7% of the group’s overall revenues in the period. Deutsche Telecom’s capital expenditures for Q4 totaled 3.01 billion euro.
Deutsche Telecom ended last year with 40.37 million mobile subscribers in Germany, of which 23.7 million were contract customers. DT counted 52.18 million customers across the rest of its European operations, which include Greece, Romania, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Austria, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro. The company also has a joint venture in the U.K.
STC selects Juniper Networks for backbone deployment in Middle East
In other EMEA news, Middle East telecom operator Saudi Telecom Company said it deployed Juniper Networks routers in its fixed and mobile Internet backbone across the region.
The new backbone is said to enable STC to provide high-speed Internet access in support of 3G, LTE and fixed-line subscribers in many locations throughout the Middle East. In addition to the PTX Series, the project also includes Juniper’s software-defined networking-ready MX2020 3D Universal Edge Router.
