Deutsche Telekom will unveil its “Strategie 2.0” in the early part of 2010, highlighting further partnerships for its T-Mobile units and more.
"In the future, we will expand our product development as well as commit to further investments and cooperations,” CEO Rene Obermann told German magazine Der Spiegel.
DT has reportedly been looking for a suitor for T-Mobile USA, with rumors centering on Sprint-Nextel Corp. That rumor gained additional wings when DT decided to merge its underperforming T-Mobile UK operations with Orange UK as a proposed joint venture in Britain; the deal was seen as evidence that DT is willing and able to marry off its divisions when necessary.
Obermann said: "It is true that we have to ask ourselves time and time again in every country whether or not the path taken also remains the right one in the future."
However, he noted that DT regards the United States as a big opportunity for mobile data. T-Mobile spent $3 billion in 2009 as it built out its 3G network; a figure Obermann said could be repeated in 2010.
"I still see good growth prospects in the United States, particularly in the area of mobile Internet,” Obermann said. “We want to utilize those.”
Strategie 2.0 is about more than just wireless, however; he also said the carrier – Europe’s largest –plans to launch a three-screen strategy of merging services across television, broadband and wireless.