Deutsche Telekom reaches 15 million broadband lines across Europe in 2009
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Deutsche Telekom published 2009 results and gave details on broadband retail lines of the group. The operator has subsidiaries in Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Greece, Romania and others.The growth rate is 12.6% YoY, due to growth in Greece and Slovakia with more than 20%. The consolidation of Greek company OTE had an impact on the figures.
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Deutsche Telekom Broadband retail lines in 2009 (in million)
| Q408 | Q309 | Q409 | %QoQ | %YoY | |
| Group | 13,5 | 14,5 | 15,2 | 4,8% | 12,6% |
| Germany | 10,6 | 11,3 | 11,5 | 1,8% | 8,5% |
| Hungary | 0,6 | 0,6 | 0,6 | 0,0% | 0,0% |
| Croatia | 0,5 | 0,5 | 0,6 | 20,0% | 20,0% |
| Slovakia | 0,3 | 0,3 | 0,4 | 33,3% | 33,3% |
| Greece | 0,9 | 1 | 1,1 | 10,0% | 22,2% |
| Romania | 0,7 | 0,8 | 0,8 | 0,0% | 14,3% |
| Others | 0,1 | 0,2 | 0,2 | 0,0% | 100,0% |
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