funkschau readers: Telekom value-added solutions are first class
- Telekom wins "Value-Added Services" category of funkschau journal's "Carrier & Provider 2010" reader awards
- Overall, Telekom secures two first-place and three second-place ratings
Gold for Telekom's value-added services: Telekom is awarded first place in the "Value-Added Services" category of the "Carrier & Provider 2010" reader awards, published by renowned telecommunications journal funkschau. Dr. Volker Nussbaumer, Head of the Value-Added Services Center, Telekom Deutschland GmbH, is very satisfied with this top result: "We are proud of bringing our customers closer to their customers with our value-added solutions. Our first-place rating in the funkschau reader awards provides impressive recognition of our work. We intend to remain number one in future when it comes to providing companies with innovative service packages from a single source for first-class customer contact." Telekom is Germany's market leader for service telephony. Telekom achieved top ratings in five categories of the funkschau reader awards (see funkschau 15-16/2010, p. 28). In addition to awarding Telekom first place in the "Value-Added Services" category, readers also rated the company as number-one "Carrier - Fixed Network & Mobile". Telekom took second place in the "Internet Provider", "Managed Services" and "Provider - Fixed Network & Mobile" categories. Voting for the funkschau "Carrier & Provider of the Year 2010" reader awards took place from March 26 to May 2, 2010. Readers were asked to decide on the best provider in each of seven categories. Some 1,400 readers voted in this year's awards, coming from virtually all areas of the ICT sector. They included IT managers, managing directors and board members, as well as system integrators and decision-makers in retail business.
About Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 131 million mobile customers, more than 37 million fixed-network lines and approximately 16 million broadband lines (as of June 30, 2010). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in over 50 countries and has more than 251,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 64.6 billion in the 2009 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2009).