Deutsche Telecom ( DT) is paying 9.1%, Telecom Italia ( TI) 5.4%, France Telecom ( FTE) 11.1% and Vodaphone Group ( VOD) a 7.9% dividend.
There are questions however about how effective this directive will be in facilitating competition, because the two incumbents with the biggest cable operations, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and British Telecommunications, have already announced their plans to divest their cable operations.
The biggest loser was Deutsche Telekom (nyse: DT - news - people ), which dropped 20%.
Number four carrier T-Mobile USA --a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG (nyse: DT - news - people )--might also be interested in a merger.
With T-Mobile USA--a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom (nyse: DT - news - people )--also in the picture, the U.S. would still have four big carriers fighting for share as the cellular marketplace begins to reach saturation.
On other business fronts, Merkel was the driving force behind opening Deutsche Telecom (nyse: DT - news - people ), still 15% owned by the state, to investment from the Blackstone Group, an American private equity firm.
Meanwhile, Malone's Liberty Media (nyse: L - news - people) appears to be playing hardball as it tries to win German regulatory approval for its bid to buy Deutsche Telekom 's (nyse: DT - news - people) cable TV assets.
Deutsche Telecom (nyse: DT - news - people )has given no official reason for his resignation but it is almost certainly linked to his previous tenure as head of the communications division of Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), rather than his performance at T-Systems.
T-Mobile, a division of Germany's Deutsche Telekom (nyse: DT - news - people ), is the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier and, until last month, lacked the capacity to support "third-generation" (3G) high-speed data networks--which are already offered by some of its larger U.S. rivals, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ).
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