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To: slacker711 who wrote (17831)	1/15/2002 10:04:12 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Slacker, Then this sticker should state "Qualcomm Inside", or the like and not "3G"

To: slacker711 who wrote (17831)	1/18/2002 11:17:58 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

re: STRONG VoiceStream Numbers for DT T-Mobile * 668,000 new subscribers to a total of about seven million by the end of December, well ahead of analyst expectations * The strong rise contrasted sharply with results from VoiceStream's bigger U.S. rivals Sprint Corp. and Verizon Wireless, which both reported lower-than-expected customer growth in the fourth quarter. >> Deutsche Telekom Shares Gain As U.S. Business Grows James Mackenzie Steven Silber Jess Smee Jan 17, 2001 Reuters Shares in Deutsche Telekom AG rose three percent on Thursday after the German telecoms giant reported a sharp rise in subscriber numbers at its U.S. mobile subsidiary VoiceStream. Deutsche Telekom said VoiceStream had added 668,000 new subscribers to a total of about seven million by the end of December, well ahead of analyst expectations of some 400,000-550,000, with an 87 percent rise in more stable contract subscriptions in the fourth quarter. In November, Deutsche Telekom said it expected total VoiceStream subscribers to reach about 6.8-6.9 million in 2001. VoiceStream is a cornerstone of Deutsche Telekom's drive to establish itself as a global telecom leader and analysts say its progress is central to the group's ability to keep up the pace of growth and meet market expectations. The strong rise contrasted sharply with results from VoiceStream's bigger U.S. rivals Sprint Corp. and Verizon Wireless, which both reported lower-than-expected customer growth in the fourth quarter. Deutsche Telekom, which said its worldwide mobile subscriber numbers rose 40 percent last year to 66.9 million, also said it had seen strong growth in demand for fast broadband Internet lines as well as a 35 percent annual rise in subscribers to its T-Online Internet provider. Deutsche Telekom shares rose after the announcement and was trading 3.5 percent higher at 17.82 euros, slightly outperforming the Dow Jones Eurostoxx telecoms index, which was 2.3 percent higher. ``The U.S. figures are better than we expected and beat Deutsche Telekom's own VoiceStream target. T-Online seems very strong and the German numbers were in line,'' Sal Oppenheim analyst Marcus Sander said. ``It is good news and should help the share price recover from the decline of the past few days.'' Strong Christmas Business Telekom ascribed the rise in VoiceStream subscribers to strong Christmas sales and new customer retention measures, but some analysts questioned whether the sixth-largest U.S. mobile operator had bought customer growth at the expense of future revenues by offering special discount rates. ``Whilst it is encouraging that VoiceStream is gaining scale in the U.S, we believe that this is likely to put pressure on our current assumption of stable to rising ARPU (average revenue per user),'' Merrill Lynch analysts said. Deutsche Telekom, which aims to list its mobile phone business this year as part of a plan to cut its debt from around 65 billion euros ($57.27 billion) to 50 billion by the end of 2002, said growth in other markets had also been strong. T-Mobile Deutschland, operator of Germany's biggest mobile service D1, added 526,000 new subscribers and UK mobile operator One2One added 493,000, bringing total subscriber numbers to 23.1 million in Germany and 10.4 million in Britain. The former German monopolist also saw strong growth in broadband Internet services, tripling the number of lines sold to 2.2 million in 2001. The group, which has been locked in a tussle with German regulators amid accusations it has built market share at the expensive of rivals by underpricing fast DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) data connections, controls about 95 percent of the local broadband market. ``The strategy of expanding into new, future-oriented business areas, such as T-DSL, continued just as successfully as the group's internationalisation, particularly with a clear increase in the number of subscribers at the American mobile communications company VoiceStream acquired last year,'' it said. Deutsche Telekom, which is due to publish more key figures for 2001 on March 5, also said its T-Online unit lifted its number of subscribers by more than 35 percent on the year to 10.7 million. The German telecoms giant was originally scheduled to report on January 29 but changed the date after it decided to stop reporting preliminary quarterly sales and earnings figures following growing confusion among investors about the numbers. << - Eric -