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=== December 2023 === | |||
December 4, 2023: NEC, one of the 1&1 radio unit suppliers downgraded the 2026 global outlook of 5G revenue outside Japan from $580 million to $210 million. The revision is as a result of “slower business progress in global 5G business due to delay of international open RAN market start-up.”<ref>https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/nec-slashes-overseas-5g-outlook-by-64-on-open-ran-gloom</ref> | |||
=== November 2023 === | |||
November 22, 2023: 1&1 said it will launch smartphone tariffs in its network from December 8, making the network fully functional. Before its customers start using Vodafone 5G under a national roaming agreement in areas that don’t have 1&1 coverage from the summer of 2024, they will have access to '''Telefonica Deutscheland’s 2G/4G/5G network under an expanded agreement to include 5G network'''.<ref>https://www.eqs-news.com/news/corporate/11-launches-smartphone-tariffs-in-its-own-mobile-network-on-8-december/1943969</ref> | |||
November 15, 2023: In an interview with Handelsblatt, CEO Ralph Dommermuth said they now have 60 active antenna sites but that they plan to start 2024 with 200 active antenna sites. Dommermuth said that its 2019 commitment of setting up antennas in 400 “white spot” areas by 2022 won’t be completed this year either. As at July 2023, 1&1 had 40 active antenna sites<ref>https://www.golem.de/news/ralph-dommermuth-1-1-raeumt-ein-nur-60-aktive-antennen-zu-haben-2311-179448.html</ref>. | |||
=== September 2023 === | |||
September 18, 2023: 1&1 concluded a comprehensive national roaming agreement with Vodafone in August. 1&1 will be able to provide 5G MVNO wholesale services using Vodafone Network from December 2023 (pushed forward from September) and 4G services on a transitional basis using Telefonica network until summer 2024, but this will need an extension of parallel sales from the Federal Network Agency. Federal Network Agency is expected to decide on the extension of parallel sales in November 2023. 1&1 reiterated that it expects to have 500 antenna sites at the end of this month as well as 300 leased antenna sites<ref>https://www.eqs-news.com/news/corporate/11-ag-11-mobile-network-launch-of-smartphone-tariffs-from-december-2023/1900377</ref>. | |||
=== July 2023 === | |||
July 19, 2023: Germany’s Koblenz Regional Court ruled against Deutsche Telecom claims that 1&1 cannot describe its network as the “most modern 5G network in Europe" in its advertising content. However, Handelsblatt said that with the ruling, 1&1 will no longer describe its network as “5G für zu Hause” (5G for at home) in its current form, a statement disagreed with by 1&1. Deutsche Telecom said it will not take any other legal steps in the matter. "The Higher Regional Court of Koblenz followed our argumentation to this effect and issued a further ban, so that 1&1 may not continue to advertise its 5G product as in the past. Unfortunately, the court did not agree with our view that the phrase ‘most modern network in Europe’ is a misleading designation, since, among other things, the availability of the network is still limited to only a few locations and no significant network expansion is currently discernible. Deutsche Telekom will not take any further legal steps in this matter," Deutsche Telecom said after the ruling. CEO Ralph Dommermuth said that the ongoing efforts by established MNOs to keep them out of the game are a “confirmation that we are on the right track”<ref>https://www.telcotitans.com/deutsche-telekomwatch/1and1-gets-a-part-win-over-dt-in-5g-ads-spat/6889.article</ref>. | |||
July 11, 2023: CEO Ralph Dommermuth said there are now 40 broadcasting stations. He added that if the fine expected to be imposed by the Federal Network Agency will be high and without a grace period, that would be hard for the company. Dommermuth noted that there have been negotiations on national roaming(in competitor's network) but the price per gigabyte would sometimes be 10 times the market price. He complained of a lack of support from regulators in ensuring more competition in the industry. Dommermuth said that they expect to have 500 locations by the end of this quarter and 1,200 locations by the end of the year. Currently, they are at 200 locations<ref>https://www.computerbase.de/2023-07/nur-40-5g-sendestationen-1-und-1-chef-macht-vodafone-fuer-rueckstand-verantwortlich/</ref>. When asked whether he regrets investing in the network infrastructure, he said, "Sometimes it's better if you don't know exactly what's coming beforehand. If I had foreseen all this, I might really not have done it."<ref name=":7">https://www.mmnews.de/boerse/201304-1-1-chef-kritisiert-die-mobilfunk-konkurrenz</ref> He repeated that it was a mistake to contract Vantage Towers. "In retrospect, yes - and even 35 years of professional experience didn't protect me from it," he admitted. "They left us hanging while the expansion for Vodafone itself worked with 4,200 special 5G locations." "We were assured that the company was really independent, efficient and that Vodafone's share in it would be further reduced. Well, then things turned out differently," he noted.<ref name=":7" /> | |||
=== June 2023 === | |||
June 20, 2023: Germany’s federal coalition government through its representatives in the BNetzA Advisory Board has urged the Federal Networks Agency/BNetzA to ensure competition in the mobile communications industry. “Fair and non-discriminatory access for service providers and mobile virtual network operators in the wholesale market must be ensured, " their amendment read. The coalition government has asked BNetzA to provide it with “comprehensive information on the current market situation” until the agency meets again. The BNetzA amendment is seen to be in response to a study conducted by 1&1 and the Federal Broadband Communications Association/BREKO in June, which asserted that the three big MNOs are unfairly inhibiting competition by blocking rollout of 5G by small companies. “ We want competitors without their own mobile network — fibre-optic network operators and service providers — to be granted exactly the same conditions as the mobile network operators’ own sales departments, ” said Sven Knapp, head of BREKO’s Berlin office<ref>https://www.telcotitans.com/deutsche-telekomwatch/germanys-coalition-govt-urges-regulator-to-clamp-down-on-mnos-blocking-competition/6752.article</ref>. | June 20, 2023: Germany’s federal coalition government through its representatives in the BNetzA Advisory Board has urged the Federal Networks Agency/BNetzA to ensure competition in the mobile communications industry. “Fair and non-discriminatory access for service providers and mobile virtual network operators in the wholesale market must be ensured, " their amendment read. The coalition government has asked BNetzA to provide it with “comprehensive information on the current market situation” until the agency meets again. The BNetzA amendment is seen to be in response to a study conducted by 1&1 and the Federal Broadband Communications Association/BREKO in June, which asserted that the three big MNOs are unfairly inhibiting competition by blocking rollout of 5G by small companies. “ We want competitors without their own mobile network — fibre-optic network operators and service providers — to be granted exactly the same conditions as the mobile network operators’ own sales departments, ” said Sven Knapp, head of BREKO’s Berlin office<ref>https://www.telcotitans.com/deutsche-telekomwatch/germanys-coalition-govt-urges-regulator-to-clamp-down-on-mnos-blocking-competition/6752.article</ref>. | ||