Frequently asked questions regarding Shareholders' Meeting.

The next shareholders’ meeting is expected to take place on April 10, 2024.

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You can find details of important dates for shareholders in our financial calendar.

Online version of the annual report for 2022.

You can print out a participation certificate for your personal income tax return at the information counter. You will need your personal AGM-Card for this, which you hold under the scanner of the terminal provided for this purpose. A participation certificate will then be printed out immediately for you. If you forget to print out a participation certificate before you leave the meeting, you can also request one afterwards from Investor Relations at Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn. In order to issue this certificate, we need to know the number on your personal AGM-Card, as we can only verify participation using the list of persons present.

As the dividend is to be paid in full from the tax contribution account in accordance with § 27 of the Corporation Tax Act (Körperschaftsteuergesetz– KStG), payment will be made without deducting capital gains tax or the solidarity surcharge. Dividends paid to shareholders in Germany are not subject to taxation. Dividends do not entail tax refunds or tax credits. In the German tax authorities’ view the dividend payment reduces the acquisition costs of the shares for tax purposes. Out of today’s perspective the dividend payment from the tax contribution account in accordance with § 27 will continue over the next years.
 

The share needs to be in your deposit on the evening of the shareholders’ meeting.

Deutsche Telekom paid  a dividend of 70 cents per share for the 2022 financial year. This corresponds to Deutsche Telekom's dividend policy of 40 to 60 percent of the adjusted recurring earnings per share (EPS): the forecast for EPS in 2023 is >€1.60.

The approval of the Annual General Meeting is required for the distribution of the dividend. The payment of the dividend to the shareholders takes place immediately after the Annual General Meeting.

The invitation and agenda to the shareholders’ meeting are no longer sent out together with the shareholders’ meeting documents. The invitation and agenda can be viewed and downloaded online at www.telekom.com/hv. We also send them as PDF printouts by postal mail on request. Please send an email to hv-service@telekom.de, or call our hotline on +49 228 18155770.

Those shareholders who are registered in the company’s shareholders’ register and have registered with the company either by logging in to the password-protected Internet Dialog at http://www.telekom.com/hv-service and using the procedure provided for this purpose or at the following address in good time, i.e., by 12 midnight CEST on Friday, March 31, 2023 (deadline for registration) at the latest, are entitled to participate in the shareholders’ meeting and to exercise their voting right at the shareholders’ meeting in accordance with § 16 (1) of the Articles of Incorporation

DTAG Hauptversammlung 2023, c/o ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH, 20683 Hamburg, Germany or by email to hv-service@telekom.de. The registration must be received by the above date in order to be deemed to have been made on time. Registrations received after March 31, 2023 will not be considered. For further information on the procedure to follow when registering via the Internet Dialog, in particular the requirements for using the Internet Dialog, please read our Information on Internet Dialog.

The expected start date for sending shareholders’ meeting documents to the shareholders entered in the company’s shareholders’ register is March 8, 2023. Please remember that the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting does not in itself authorize you to participate in the shareholders’ meeting or to exercise voting rights. For this, you are required to register in good time for the shareholders’ meeting (see also: Participation). We ask that you fill out the documents we have sent you in accordance with your requirements and return them to the address indicated. To ensure your requests are implemented as quickly as possible, you can also use the Internet Dialog at www.telekom.com/hv-service. You must register by 12 midnight CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Friday, March 31, 2023 (deadline for registration) at the latest. Shareholders will not receive an invitation to the shareholders’ meeting if they were not yet recorded in the shareholders’ register when the shareholders’ meeting was convened, i.e., on February 23, 2023. These shareholders will receive their invitation in additional dispatches. If you have not received an invitation to the shareholders’ meeting, please call our hotline on +49 228 18155770 Monday through Friday, from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (except public holidays).4

In this event, you evidently have more than one securities account, possibly even at different banks. In this case, you have been allocated more than one shareholder number. In order to be able to exercise all voting rights arising from your Deutsche Telekom AG shares in all your securities accounts, please use all registration forms provided to you to register each share portfolio. Please fill out the relevant forms individually (see also: Invitation to the shareholders’ meeting). If you would like to register via the Internet Dialog, you have to register separately for each share portfolio recorded under a different shareholder number.

Shareholders who register on time – i.e., by 12 midnight CEST on March 31, 2023 – and who have not received an admission ticket can still attend the shareholders’ meeting. The admission ticket has then merely not reached the recipient (in time) by postal mail. If you have registered in time, you will be included in the list of registered participants. If this is the case, a replacement admission ticket can be issued at the special tickets counter in the World Conference Center Bonn. You can view the current status of your registration at any time in the Internet Dialog at www.telekom.com/hv-service. If you are in any doubt, please contact our hotline on +49 228 18155770.

Counter-motions within the meaning of § 126 AktG and nominations within the meaning of § 127 AktG, together with the shareholder’s name, the corresponding reasons (which are not required in the case of nominations), and any response by the company’s administrative bodies, will be published online at www.telekom.com/gegenantraege provided they are received by the company by no later than 12 midnight CET on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at the following address:

Postfach 1929
53009 Bonn, Germany
or sent by fax to +49 228 18188259
or by email to gegenantraege@telekom.de and providing all other conditions triggering the company’s obligation to publish such information under § 126 and/or § 127 AktG have been met. For legal reasons we are unable to accept counter-motions received after this date.

You can register via the Internet Dialog to have the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting sent to you electronically. After successfully registering, the invitation to the next shareholders’ meeting will be sent to your electronic mailbox. This is the quickest way to obtain information about the upcoming shareholders’ meeting. You can cancel this service at any time and then receive your shareholders’ meeting documents as usual by postal mail. It is easy to register at www.telekom.com/hv-service. To do this you will need the access data that you received together with the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting.

If you would like to edit your registration data (electronic mailbox address, online password, security question), please log on again with your shareholder number and your password at http://www.telekom.com/hv-service and update your details.

You may revoke your consent to participate in the electronic delivery of invitations to shareholders’ meetings at any time by visiting www.telekom.com/hv-service and logging in to the Internet Dialog.

If you would like to have your invitation to the shareholders’ meeting sent by encrypted email, we require a public PGP certificate from you. You can make it available to us at www.telekom.com/hv-service. As soon as we have a valid PGP certificate from you, we will encrypt all emails we send to you in connection with your invitation to the shareholders’ meeting.

Once you have entered your registration data online at http://www.telekom.com/hv-service, we will confirm this by email to the electronic mailbox address you have specified. Activate your registration by clicking on the link in the email. Only when you have done this will you be activated to receive your invitation to the shareholders’ meeting electronically.

Please note that you must activate the service for electronic transmission of the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting within seven (7) calendar days. If you do not confirm registration within this period, your registration data will be deleted in the interests of your own security. You will then have to register again.

If you, as a group of persons or a legal entity, would like to register to receive the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting electronically, then the individual who applies for registration must have authorization from all members of the relevant group of persons or legal entity.

Using the internet dialog, you can enjoy on http://www.telekom.com/agm-service the following benefits:

• Activation of the email distribution of your shareholders’ meeting invite
• Ticket ordering for the shareholders’ meeting
• Issuing and managing third-party authority and -directives
• Independent modification of reference data, i.e. when relocating

Do you have the documents for the shareholders’ meeting on hand? If yes, you can find your shareholder identification number and your initial personal password under.  ‘Explanations on registration and exercising voting rights’.

If you do not have the documents on hand, please contact our the agm-hotline on +49 228 181-55770 or send us an email to hv-service@telekom.de.

We wil send you a new password by email if you have already registered for email distribution. In order to get a new password, please follow the directions below::

• Click on 'Password' on the internet dialogue starting page (www.telekom.com/hv-service). 
• After entering your shareholder identification number and your registered email address, you will be asked to answer your security question which you have chosen during registration for the electronic document distribution. 
• After answering the security question correctly, you will be sent a new online password via email.

In case you have not registered yourself for the electronic document distribution yet, please contact the agm-hotline under +49 228 181-55770 or send an email to hv-service@telekom.de.

The Internet Dialogue can be used with current browsers such as Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

JavaScript and cookies should be activated. In principle, however, it is possible to use the Internet Dialogue without JavaScript.

A version of Acrobat Reader should also be installed on the device to display the stored documents.

Security and encryption

Is the transmission of my personal data secure?
Your connection to the server used for the shareholders' meeting services offered by Deutsche Telekom is established via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) with 128-bit encryption. I.e. personal data such as passwords and so on cannot be viewed by any third party over the Internet during the session.

How safe is it to receive shareholders' meeting documents by e-mail?
E-mails sent on the Internet are normally not encrypted. We cannot guarantee security on the general Internet here. However, the shareholders' meeting invitation sent by e-mail do not contain any personal data. You can, of course, opt to have your shareholders' meeting invitations sent by encrypted e-mail. We will then require your public PGP certificate, which you can make available to us at http://www.telekom.com/hv-service

What is SSL?
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and is an extension to standard information transmission over the Internet. The function of this extension involves the exchange of an encryption logarithm and a session key between the Internet server and your own computer prior to transmission of the actual data. Only when this has taken place is the application data itself transmitted. It is encrypted in compliance with the previously "agreed" procedure and is therefore protected from access by third parties. Whenever a site is visited whose URL (Uniform Resource Locator) begins with https:// instead of the usual http://, it is potentially a secure site. Normally, SSL is transparent for the user. The first time a secure site is used by a web server, browser and server negotiate the requested or possible encryption. The defined encryption is used again for the following sites that are requested.

How does SSL work?
SSL uses certificates for authentication. Central offices in charge of the commercial operation of certification services manage the so-called root certificates that can be recognized by the browser (the key for recognizing these certificates is provided for the browser by the manufacturer). These certification offices grant temporary subcertificates to website operators confirming the authenticity of the services they offer. From a technical point of view, subcertificates are granted in accordance with the public key procedure. The encryption is initiated by the browser. It generates a session key that is sent to the server with the key that belongs to the certificate. This server, in turn, divides the key into a server key and a client key, sends the client key back to the browser and from then on encrypts the data with the server key in the exact same way as the browser does with the client key.

How can I check encryption strength?
To check the encryption strength of the link to the Internet Dialogue, please click on the lock symbol in the address or status bar in your browser.

a) If you wish to authorize a specific person when registering, you can do this using the registration form. Please select 1b on the form and fill out 1b and the rest of the registration form in full. You can then send the registration form back to us by postal mail using the enclosed envelope. Please note that in this case we must receive the registration form by 12 midnight CEST on Friday, March 31, 2023 (deadline for registration). Documents received after this date will not be considered.

b) Authorization via the Internet Dialog

You can also use our convenient Internet Dialog at www.telekom.com/hv-service to authorize a third party. For further information about our Internet Dialog, in particular the requirements for using the Internet Dialog, please read our Information on Internet Dialog.

a) Issuing proxy authorizations and voting instructions by postal mail together with registration (return in enclosed reply envelope)

If you wish to authorize an official proxy of the company when registering, please use the registration form. Please select 3a on the form and fill out 3a along with the rest of the registration form. Please remember to sign at the bottom and do not forget to issue your voting instructions on the voting instructions form. You can then send the registration form, including the voting instructions on the voting instructions form, back to us by postal mail using the enclosed envelope. Please note that in this case we must receive the registration form by 12 midnight CEST on Friday, March 31, 2023 (deadline for registration). Documents received after this date will not be processed.

b) Authorizing and issuing voting instructions via the Internet Dialog

You can also use our convenient Internet Dialog at www.telekom.com/hv-service to authorize and issue voting instructions to the company’s proxies. For further information about our Internet Dialog, in particular the requirements for using the Internet Dialog, please read our Information on Internet Dialog.

c) Necessity of issuing instructions

Please note that the company’s proxies will only make use of your proxy authorization if they have received specific instructions on how to vote. In this respect, they will only take into account voting instructions regarding motions for resolution announced in the invitation as well as the counter-motions and nominations for elections made public under § 126, § 127 AktG. In particular, voting instructions regarding making spoken contributions or asking questions or proposing motions or raising objections will be ignored.

d) Subsequent changes to voting instructions already issued

You may change any instructions you have given to the company’ proxies until just before voting takes place at the shareholders’ meeting; you will be informed in the Internet Dialog when no further changes to voting instructions are possible. Please note that if the proxy authorization granted to the company’s proxies is revoked, it will not be possible for the company’s proxies to vote according to your instructions.

If you wish to authorize an intermediary, a shareholders’ association (or other persons who have the same legal status as a shareholders’ association), or a voting advisor within the meaning of § 134a (1) sentence 3, (2) sentence 3 AktG, please make sure before submitting the proxy authorization whether, and on what conditions, the intermediary/shareholders’ association/voting advisor you have selected is prepared to exercise your voting rights. Please use the registration form under 3b to provide a proxy authorization for an intermediary, a shareholders’ association, or a voting advisor. Please note that in this case, the registration form with the authorization must reach the intermediary/shareholders’ association/voting advisor with enough time for them to register with the company as required by 12 midnight CEST on Friday, March 31, 2023.

If the intermediary is not prepared to exercise your voting rights, you can authorize the proxies named under 3a according to the terms specified therein to vote in accordance with your voting instructions, provided the form was duly forwarded to the company (this sentence can be deleted from the form if required). You can also authorize an intermediary, a shareholders’ association, or a voting advisor using the Internet Dialog.

Provided the requirements stated under “Conditions for attendance and exercising voting rights” are fulfilled, shareholders can choose to cast their vote by post/online without attending the shareholders’ meeting. Shareholders casting their votes by post/online can do so either in text form (§ 126b BGB) sent to the address specified for registration or via the password-protected Internet Dialog using the procedure provided for this purpose (subject to the requirements and restrictions stated under “Using the password-protected Internet Dialog”) at the web address stated above (www.telekom.com/hv-service). For administrative reasons, postal/online votes should be cast using the forms provided by the company for this specific purpose (including electronic forms).

Postal/online votes can only be cast in respect of resolutions proposed by the company’s administrative bodies and published by the company prior to the shareholders’ meeting, but including any proposal on the appropriation of net income that is adjusted during the shareholders’ meeting in line with the published proposal, and in respect of resolutions proposed by shareholders that were published by the company prior to the shareholders’ meeting on the basis of a minority request pursuant to § 122 (2) AktG, as a counter-motion pursuant to § 126 (1) AktG, or as a nomination pursuant to § 127 AktG. Postal/online votes that are cast may be changed or revoked at any time up to and including the day of the shareholders’ meeting, right up to shortly before voting commences.

Shareholders who use postal/online voting are nonetheless entitled to attend the shareholders’ meeting, either in person or through a proxy.

If, a few days before the shareholders’ meeting, you have still not received the tickets you ordered, please contact our hotline immediately on +49 228 18155770. Please also note the time it will take for the admission ticket to be delivered to you.

If we receive your registration after 12 midnight CEST on March 31, 2023 (deadline for registration), we will not issue any more admission tickets.  It will also not be possible to issue you an admission ticket during the accreditation process. The most convenient way to order your admission ticket is via the Internet Dialog at http://www.telekom.com/hv-service. For further information on the procedure to follow when ordering admission tickets via the Internet Dialog, in particular the requirements for using the Internet Dialog, please read our Information on Internet Dialog. You can print out the admission tickets directly or send them by email to your smartphone.

Please bear in mind that we can, as a rule, only issue one admission ticket per shareholder to our shareholders’ meeting.

Shareholders who register on time – i.e., by 12 midnight CEST on March 31, 2023 – and who have not received an admission ticket can still attend the shareholders’ meeting. The admission ticket has then merely not reached the recipient (in time) by postal mail. If you have registered in time, you will be included in the list of registered participants. If this is the case, a replacement admission ticket can be issued at the special tickets counter in the World Conference Center Bonn. You can view the current status of your registration at any time in the Internet Dialog at www.telekom.com/hv-service. If you are in any doubt, please contact our hotline on +49 228 18155770.

Our Internet Dialog provides you with a flexible, convenient way to order tickets for yourself or a proxy online and to print them out directly. Select the option to print your own admission ticket when ordering in the Internet Dialog or send the tickets by email to your smartphone.

To open the admission ticket on your computer, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free of charge at www.adobe.de.

The admission tickets are generated and displayed in color, but if you do not have a color printer you can of course print your admission ticket out in black and white.

Your connection to the server used for the shareholders’ meeting services offered by Deutsche Telekom is established via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) with 128-bit encryption. This offers the maximum possible security, i.e., none of the personal data necessary to print out the admission ticket can be viewed by a third party over the internet during the session.

Please check with our hotline (+49 228 18155770) to find out if you are listed as being registered to participate in the shareholders’ meeting. If you are, we can issue you with a replacement ticket on the day of the meeting. Please go to the special tickets counter.

You can view the current status of your registration at any time in the Internet Dialog at www.telekom.com/hv-service.

Bearers of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) can request additional information from Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, c/o American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, 6201 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA, email db@astfinancial.com, phone +1 866 2823744.

The shareholders’ meeting of Deutsche Telekom AG will take place at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB), main entrance, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn, Germany, at 10:00 a.m. CEST on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Doors open at 8.00  a.m.

Each shareholder is responsible for organizing their own trip to and from the shareholders’ meeting. Please note that the admission ticket cannot be used to travel on public transport. Due to cost considerations, the costs of tickets to and from the shareholders’ meeting and/or parking charges will not be assumed by the company. Nor will travel costs be reimbursed.

There are several parking options, including the nearby parking garages Parkhaus WCCB on Karl-Carstens-Str. and Parkhaus Museumsmeile on Emil-Nolde-Str., or the Rheinaue parking lot on Charles-de-Gaulle-Str. Due to cost considerations, the costs of tickets to and from the shareholders’ meeting and/or parking charges will not be assumed by the company. Nor will travel costs and/or parking charges be reimbursed.

Please also watch for the current on-site signs and routing on the day of the shareholders’ meeting. You should also note that Bonn has a low emission zone in which you may only drive if your vehicle has the appropriate emissions sticker.

To make your arrival by car easier, just enter your starting address in the route planner provided. Please enter the following address in your GPS: Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn. Please note the location of the various parking garages/lots. You will also find these on the directions provided on the admission ticket. Parking charges will not be reimbursed by the company.

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Shareholders and guests are welcome to enter the WCCB from 8:00 a.m. onward. In order to avoid having to wait too long, we recommend that you arrive as early as possible. The shareholders’ meeting will start at 10.00 a.m. with the opening remarks from the Chair (see also schedule).

The persons accompanying school/student groups are asked to be at accreditation with their students at 9.30 a.m. at the very latest. They are otherwise not permitted to enter until 11.00 a.m. This is necessary to allow quick access for shareholders and to ensure that the shareholders’ meeting starts promptly.

Beverages will be available from 8.00 a.m. and various hot and cold snacks will also be offered later.

Every shareholder has the right to know which data concerning them is stored in the shareholders’ register. This data can be viewed in person at Deutsche Telekom AG’s registered office at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn, Germany or written requests can be sent to Deutsche Telekom AG, Investor Relations, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn, Germany. You will also find your personal registration data in your invitation to the shareholders’ meeting.

The shareholders’ register is maintained as an electronic database which is updated daily with buying and selling activities worldwide. The following data is stored in the shareholders’ register: last name, first name, address, email address (if given), shareholder number, share portfolio, date of birth.

In this case, the depositary bank is then the shareholder in relation to the company and can order admission tickets for the number of customers it has. The depositary bank can then authorize its customers to participate in the shareholders’ meeting and exercise its voting rights. In some cases, the depositary banks that are listed in the shareholders’ register on behalf of shareholders will send out the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting to their securities account customers.

The invitation to the shareholders’ meeting includes an address change section, which you can use to change the address for your entry in the shareholders’ register of Deutsche Telekom AG. Please fill this section out and return it to Deutsche Telekom AG. You can also change your address online by visiting www.telekom.com/hv-service under “Shareholders’ register service.”

Please do not forget to inform your depositary bank of any change of address. We have prepared a form for this purpose that you can download and send to your depositary bank. You should also be aware that only the depositary bank can arrange for the actual entry in the shareholders’ register.

We can only change data already entered in the shareholders’ register with your permission. We are also not able to make changes pertaining to the amount of shares held or the share ownership information. In particular, we as a company are unable to update your entry to reflect name changes, for instance through marriage; for this, you will need to notify the depositary bank.

If the shareholder does not raise an objection, the depositary bank will arrange for the shareholder’s data to be entered in the shareholders’ register. It is also possible to enter a trustee. However, as far as Deutsche Telekom AG is concerned, only the person who is entered in the shareholders’ register is considered to be the shareholder. Please remember that you will not receive any information from the company concerning the shareholders’ meeting if you are not listed in the shareholders’ register.