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- Group plans to double cloud revenue with business customers by 2018
- On the road to becoming cloud leader in Europe with new partnerships
- Business units step up cloud activities across the Group
Deutsche Telekom is keeping its sights set on the European market for cloud services, with the intention of more than doubling the current annual figure of approximately one billion euros of revenue from business customers by the end of 2018. Building on its market position among business customers is an important step for Deutsche Telekom towards becoming the leading telecommunications company in Europe. Business in IT and telecommunications services from the cloud is growing unabatedly and in response, the Group is constantly expanding its cloud ecosystem with technology partners who are in turn market leaders. Deutsche Telekom and Huawei took the opportunity provided by the Huawei Innovation day today to announce the extension of their cloud services cooperation.
"At Deutsche Telekom, we want to grow by more than 20 percent each year in the field of cloud platforms, and to become the leading provider for businesses in Europe," said Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, Head of the IT Division at
"Huawei provides hardware and solutions expertise, while we offer cloud management with the best availability, via the best network," was how Mr. Abolhassan summed up the new cooperation. "In this way, we are securing the best balance of price, service and quality for our customers when migrating their IT to the cloud." Quality in the sense of failsafe services is the decisive purchase criterion for corporate customers, coming even before price, a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed. As one of the cloud pioneers,
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About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2014). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year – more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.
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Deutsche Telekom considers the European business customer segment a strategic growth area. Deutsche Telekom offers small, medium-sized and multinational companies ICT solutions for an increasingly complex digital world. In addition to services from the cloud, the range of services is centered around M2M and security solutions, complementary mobile communications and fixed network products, and solutions for virtual collaboration and IT platforms, all of which forms the basis for our customers' digital business models.
With approximately 47,800 employees worldwide,