Deutsche Telekom $DTE (+2,36%) has reached a technological milestone and is the first mobile provider worldwide to introduce multi-orbit roaming for the Internet of Things (IoT).

For the first time, IoT devices can seamlessly transmit their data via terrestrial mobile networks as well as geostationary (GEO) and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The solution has already been tested with a commercial IoT device and represents an important step towards globally available, fail-safe IoT connectivity.

》Satellites and mobile communications - combined for maximum range《

According to Telekom, the new multi-orbit concept is based on the combination of Telekom's global IoT network (NB-IoT and LTE-M) with several satellite partners.

Skylo covers the GEO orbit, while Sateliot and OQ Technology provide LEO connectivity. From the second half of 2026, Iridium's "NTN Direct" will add additional LEO capacity to the network.

GEO satellites will provide continuous coverage, while LEO satellites will enable low latency, higher data rates and better availability in mountainous and high latitude areas. Together, this creates a hybrid system that reliably reaches even the most remote regions.

Deutsche Telekom sees itself as a global pioneer in satellite-based IoT communication. "Deutsche Telekom is thus establishing itself as the leading global network operator offering IoT connectivity via multiple satellite orbits," says Jens Olejak, Head of Satellite IoT at Deutsche Telekom.

》Practical applications - from maritime security to critical infrastructure《

IoT solutions that combine terrestrial and satellite-based connections are currently being developed and tested as part of the Multi-Orbit Early Adopter Program.

15 companies and five research institutes are working together with partners such as Sateliot, OQ Technology, Skylo, Nordic Semiconductor and KYOCERA AVX.

》Technical validation with standard hardware《

One important aspect is the use of standard 3GPP-compliant hardware. The nRF9151 module from Nordic Semiconductor is the first cellular IoT module to support NB-IoT/LTE-M and NB-NTN via GEO and LEO. In tests, it successfully established connections to LEO satellites with a Telekom SIM. Antenna solutions for the necessary frequency bands n249, n255 and n256 are already available and make it easier for manufacturers to develop new devices.

With multi-orbit roaming, Deutsche Telekom is creating an IoT infrastructure that is global, flexible and highly fail-safe. It lays the foundation for new applications in industry, energy supply, logistics and security - wherever connectivity gaps previously existed.

T-Mobile US $TMUS (+0,81%) ($DTE (+2,36%)) announced that it has agreed to issue bonds with a total nominal value of € 750 million with an interest rate of 3.200% and a term until 2032, € 750 million with an interest rate of 3.625% and a term until 2035, and € 1 billion with an interest rate of 3.900% and a term until 2038 as part of a registered public offering.

The bond issue is scheduled to be completed on February 19, 2026.

T-Mobile USA intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes. This may include, among other things, share repurchases, the payment of dividends by T-Mobile's Board of Directors and the ongoing refinancing of existing debt.

The Polish antitrust and consumer protection authority UOKiK has ordered the telecommunications provider T-Mobile $DTE (+2,36%) to compensate consumers who have lost their discounts due to late bill payments, as the authority announced in a statement.

"Consumers are required to fulfill their obligations in a timely manner, and the law provides certain consequences for failure to do so. This does not include withdrawing discounts and adding their value to the basic monthly fee. Such a practice is an unfair penalty on the part of the entrepreneurs. It violates the law and harms the interests of consumers," explained Tomasz Chrostny, head of UOKiK, in the statement.

According to the statement, T-Mobile discontinued the objectionable practice immediately after the proceedings were initiated, introduced new contract templates and discontinued the verification of timely payment when determining whether consumers retain discounts in a given billing period.

The head of the UOKiK issued a commitment decision obliging the company to provide compensation to eligible consumers.

Once the decision is final, T-Mobile will inform its customers via its website, the "Moj T-Mobile" app, social media and individual correspondence, indicating the compensation due and the method and deadline for receiving it.

In recent years, our devices have gained a new kind of high-tech convenience: Many smartphones can now translate conversations in real time without the need for a human translator in between.

With the Google $GOOG (-0,24%)
$GOOGL (-0,09%) Translate app on an Android smartphone or Apple $AAPL (+0,49%) AirPods Pro 3 connected to an iPhone, language barriers can be overcome.

But not everyone has a smartphone that supports live translation, or has the time or bandwidth to install an app such as Duolingo $DUOL (and possibly commit to a subscription).

T-Mobile $TMUS (+0,81%) ($DTE (+2,36%)) now wants to remove any barriers to making calls.

The company is offering live translations at the network level so that even with a basic cell phone, you can speak to someone who speaks one of over 50 languages with the help of T-Mobile's AI agent.

Starting today, T-Mobile is accepting applications for a beta version of its new live translation feature for phone calls, which will be tested in the spring.

Participation is open to all customers with a T-Mobile postpaid contract, such as the Essentials, Experience More, Experience Beyond and Better Value plans.

"We want to make language cool again," said John Saw, Chief Technology Officer of T-Mobile, pointing out that its customers make 6 billion international calls a year and 40% of those people travel internationally."

"Live Translation is a real innovation breakthrough as it brings the latest AI models to our voice network."

Just as during the beta phase of the later T-Satellite service, T-Mobile has not yet decided which tariffs will include the Live Translation feature. The costs, if any, have also not yet been decided. T-Satellite is currently included in the Experience Beyond and Better Value plans and is available for other plans as an add-on option for USD 10. However, it is also available to customers of other providers for USD 10 per month.

》How does live translation work《

To activate Live Translation during a call, the T-Mobile customer presses *87* (star-eight-seven-star), which activates the AI agent. Only one party on the call needs to be a T-Mobile customer, and the feature is also available while roaming.

According to T-Mobile, no setup, no language training and no specification of the languages to be translated are required. The AI agent recognizes which languages are being spoken in real time and speaks the translation as soon as a person stops speaking.

The AI agent also recognizes whether you are calling from another country and selects a language for translation. For example, if you call someone in Brazil, it will choose Portuguese. If the person speaks another language, for example Spanish instead of Brazilian Portuguese, the agent switches immediately.

In addition, the spoken translation does not sound like a robot voice. "Our AI model can actually clone your voice in another language while retaining the intonation, emotion and rhythm," all of which are captured spontaneously, Saw said. He attributes the performance to the low latency inherent in T-Mobile's 5G Advanced network.

Once activated, the feature doesn't need to be turned off. When both speakers switch to the same language, the AI agent simply stops acting as an intermediary.

》The true test will be the quality of the translations《

"We've done a lot of benchmarks for AI-powered translations," Saw said, "and they match the accuracy of any established service." He said the model complies with FCC 2027 captioning guidelines and meets all ADA accessibility standards.

Saw would not reveal exactly which AI translation models are being used and which partner companies are providing them. He did confirm that T-Mobile is working with several AI companies, but "we won't name them because we value them all equally."

Saw noted that the way T-Mobile's network is designed as a platform has the advantage that updated AI translation models can be incorporated, updated overnight and made available to hundreds of millions of handsets.

》Live translation is just the first AI feature from T-Mobile《

All major mobile operators are using AI at different levels. AT&T $T (+0,2%) for example, recently announced AI technology to optimize internet traffic at the home router level, and Verizon $VZ (-0,35%) is using Google's AI to improve its customer service experience. T-Mobile itself is using AI to automatically reroute cellular traffic between towers during emergencies.

Without going into specific future strategies, Saw mentioned some other tasks that AI agents could take on in the future, for example as AI receptionists or AI concierges.

The focus on AI technology in the network opens up these possibilities.

So why is the company choosing live translation as its first entry into AI-based, customer-centric network functions?

"Live translation is not an easy solution," Saw replied, "but it's exactly the right starting point to solve the current problem."

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Deutsche Telekom $DTE (+2,36%) currently has no plans to sell shares in its US subsidiary this year. The Bonn-based DAX-listed company, which currently still holds 52.8 percent of T-Mobile's capital, has expressly stated that this also applies in connection with the ongoing share buyback program of T-Mobile US. Deutsche Telekom has not sold any more T-Mobile shares since the last transaction at the end of October last year.

"T-Mobile US has once again delivered strong results in the 2025 financial year and is clearly on track to achieve the targets set at Capital Markets Day 2024. As the majority shareholder, we are firmly committed to T-Mobile US' strategy and focus on strong and sustainable earnings growth," said Deutsche Telekom Group CEO Tim Höttges.

"We do not plan to sell any T-Mobile US shares from our holdings in 2026, not even in the current share buyback program. In addition, we are continuously reviewing opportunities to further increase our stake if this makes strategic sense and is financially attractive."

T-Mobile US $TMUS (+0,81%) ($DTE (+2,36%)) issued a cautious forecast along with a mixed fourth quarter report that included a decline in profits and lower than expected net postpaid subscriber growth.

The company's shares have already fallen by up to 6.5% in pre-market trading on Wednesday.

For 2026, the telecom company forecasts adjusted free cash flow of between $18 billion and $18.7 billion, below Bloomberg's estimate of $18.92 billion.

Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between USD 37 billion and USD 37.5 billion (mean USD 37.25 billion, estimate USD 37.3 billion).

The company expects expenses of USD 10 billion for the year, which is slightly below the estimate of USD 10.12 billion.

Net additions to postpaid contracts are expected to be between 900,000 and 1 million.

In the fourth quarter, net additions to postpaid customers were 2.38 million, above the estimate of 1.92 million, while net additions to postpaid telephone customers were 962,000, below the estimate of 991,709.

The net increase in postpaid accounts amounted to 261,000, which corresponds to a decrease of 2,000 compared to the previous year.

Net additions to T-Mobile's 5G broadband customers increased by 67,000 to 495,000 and the company ended the quarter with 8.5 million 5G broadband customers.

Net broadband customer additions increased 126,000 year-over-year to 558,000, including 63,000 net fiber additions.

The churn rate for postpaid telephones was 1.02%, 10 basis points above the previous year's figure.

ARPU for postpaid phones amounted to USD 50.71 compared to an estimate of USD 50.77.

Net new customer acquisition in the prepaid segment fell by 44.7% year-on-year to 57,000.

The churn rate for prepaid contracts was 2.76%, 9 basis points lower.

The ARPU for prepaid contracts was USD 33.33 compared to the estimated USD 33.77.

At the end of the fourth quarter, the company had a total of 142.39 million customers (estimated 141.67 million), compared to 129.53 million customers in the same period last year.

In the three months to December 31, net income fell from USD 2.98 billion in the previous year to USD 2.10 billion, which is attributable to severance costs of USD 293 million.

The company generated earnings per share of USD 1.88, missing the average analyst estimate by 18 cents.

Sales rose by 11% to USD 24.33 billion, exceeding the consensus estimate of USD 24.2 billion.

Separately, the company announced that it has integrated real-time artificial intelligence into its network and will be the first AI offering to provide a live translation service for calls in more than 50 languages.

T-Mobile announced that it has opened registration for its postpaid customers to beta test the feature, which is scheduled to begin in the spring.

Once the feature is ready, T-Mobile said customers will not need to install apps or update their phones to use the live translation feature.

The demand for data in social media is huge. However, "big techs" do not want to pay for data transmission, as this is a matter for the network operators.

The Facebook parent company Meta $META (-0,47%) is now being asked to pay in Germany.

In the dispute over usage fees, the Facebook parent company Meta must pay Deutsche Telekom around $DTE (+2,36%) around 30 million euros according to a ruling.

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court confirmed a decision by the lower court - the Cologne Regional Court had set the payment obligation at around 20 million euros almost two years ago. As the appeal proceedings concerned a longer period of time - more than three years - Meta has now been ordered to pay around 30 million euros.

Meta had paid the Bonn-based company for years for the transportation of data - internet users were given access to the online services of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp via the Telekom network. In 2021, Meta stopped these payments and Telekom went to court. It continued to transmit the data.

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court ruled that Telekom was right to demand payment from Meta subsidiary Edge Network for services rendered.

The Meta subsidiary had argued that there was no legally valid contract including an obligation to pay, for example because Telekom did not provide any service to Meta, but rather to the Telekom end customers who initiated the data transfer. Telekom only fulfills contractual obligations towards end customers when transmitting data.

》Harsh accusations from both sides《

In the legal dispute, both sides had accused each other of dominating the market and abusing their positions in violation of antitrust law. With regard to Telekom, however, the court did not accept this accusation in the proceedings. On the contrary, the judges found that the Meta subsidiary had considerable countervailing power, which ruled out the exploitation of a dominant market position in this case. Edge Network could have stopped transmitting data to the network operator Telekom and routed the data via Telekom's competitors instead, according to the chamber.

The fact that Telekom received money from Meta on a small scale until 2020 is to a certain extent a special historical case - other network operators such as Vodafone do not pay the Facebook parent company. The financial amount that Telekom is demanding ultimately only plays a minor role in the legal dispute. Much more important to the company is the court ruling that the network operator has a fundamental right to payment.

A Telekom spokeswoman said that the ruling had been acknowledged. "The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has confirmed our legal opinion that the transport of data traffic from Meta through our network constitutes a valuable service."

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An optoelectronic light source that generates individual photons on demand in the telecommunications C-band of Deutsche Telekom $DTE (+2,36%) with record quality has an interference visibility of 92 percent. This is an important step towards scalable photonic quantum computing and quantum communication.

A research team from the University of Stuttgart and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg led by Prof. Stefanie Barz (University of Stuttgart) has realized an optoelectronic light source that generates single photons in the C-band (1,550 nm), which is critical for telecommunications, with record quality and deterministically. With a two-photon interference visibility of almost 92 percent, the quantum dot device achieves values that are competitive with probabilistic systems for the first time, while at the same time operating deterministically.

"The lack of a high-quality C-band photon source that operates deterministically has been a key problem in quantum optics laboratories for over a decade. Our new technology now removes this obstacle," explains Prof. Stefanie Barz. This means access to synchronizable photon sources for the telecommunications band for the first time.

Unlike conventional probabilistic methods such as spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), the new quantum dot-based source generates photons exactly when it is electronically controlled. This property is essential for the synchronization of multiple photon sources in complex optoelectronic systems.

The high indistinguishability of the generated photons is a critical parameter for quantum interference applications and enables precise control over interference effects. These controlled quantum effects are a prerequisite for advanced applications in quantum computing and quantum communication.

A research team from the University of Stuttgart and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg led by Prof. Stefanie Barz (University of Stuttgart) has realized an optoelectronic light source that generates single photons in the C-band (1,550 nm), which is critical for telecommunications, with record quality and deterministically. With a two-photon interference visibility of almost 92 percent, the quantum dot device achieves values that are competitive with probabilistic systems for the first time, while at the same time operating deterministically.

"The lack of a high-quality C-band photon source that operates deterministically has been a key problem in quantum optics laboratories for over a decade. Our new technology now removes this obstacle," explains Prof. Stefanie Barz. This means access to synchronizable photon sources for the telecommunications band for the first time.

》Deterministic photon generation《

Unlike conventional probabilistic methods such as spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), the new quantum dot-based source generates photons exactly when it is electronically controlled. This property is essential for the synchronization of multiple photon sources in complex optoelectronic systems.

The high indistinguishability of the generated photons is a critical parameter for quantum interference applications and enables precise control over interference effects. These controlled quantum effects are a prerequisite for advanced applications in quantum computing and quantum communication.

》Integration in telecommunications infrastructure《

Compatibility with existing fiber optic infrastructure is crucial for the industrial implementation of photonic quantum technologies. The telecommunications C-band around 1,550 nm offers minimal optical losses in standard single-mode fibers and is therefore the industrial standard for long-distance data transmission.

Previous quantum dot photon sources achieved their best properties at shorter wavelengths of 780 to 960 nm, while C-band implementations achieved at best 72 percent interference visibility. This is well below the requirements of demanding quantum applications.

The developed device is based on indium arsenide quantum dots in an indium aluminum gallium arsenide matrix, integrated into a circular Bragg grating resonator to amplify the photon emission.