Deutsche Telekom, which offers pay-TV over Internet connections, said this spring that it planned to sign up 2.5m-3m paying customers by the end of 2012 (it now has 900,000).

德国电信则提供付费电视网络连接业务，今年春天该公司声称，计划能够在2012年年底扩展到250 - 300万付费用户(现在有90万)。

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Deutsche Telekom lost 1m fixed-line subscribers in the first half of the year, and of the 400,000 broadband lines it activated in the past 12 months, over 95% were for its rivals to resell.

德国电信在上半年丧失了100万固定线路用户，在过去12个月里其中的40万元用户开通了宽带，95%被其竞争者转售。

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Deutsche Telekom lost 1m fixed-line subscribers in the first half of the year, and of the 400, 000 broadband lines it activated in the past 12 months, over 95% were for its rivals to resell.

德国电信在上半年丧失了100万固定线路用户，在过去12个月里其中的40万元用户开通了宽带，95%被其竞争者转售。

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The government still owns 32%, and in April it sold 4.5% to Blackstone, a private-equity firm, signalling that it wanted Telekom to be more market-driven, though eight months later it balked at selling a further stake to Sistema, a Russian firm.

ECONOMIST: Deutsche Telekom

It worked on Deutsche Telekom's privatisation and was a big influence behind Krupp's 1997 hostile-turned-friendly bid for Thyssen, another steel maker.

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Keeping investors guessing, Deutsche Telekom said it would sell 35% of its cable television network and float another 40% on the stockmarket.

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