{"id":2700,"date":"2008-01-29T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-29T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T11:51:00","slug":"broadband-gains-replace-fixed-line-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/2700-broadband-gains-replace-fixed-line-losses.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband gains replace fixed-line losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom now has 9.02 million broadband customers, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>US operations have also expanded, with the German company winning 951 000 clients there last to to boost its customer base to 28.685 million.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, Deutsche Telekom added 1.48 million new mobile telephone users, bringing the total to 35.95 million.<\/p>\n<p>Fixed-line service was the main loser, with the loss of 2.1 million customers coming on top of a similar number in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The trend was expected to continue this year, Deutsche Telekom boss Rene Obermann advised.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We will continue to lose clients to competitors,&quot; Obermann acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>He added, however, that Deutsche Telekom still held around 80 percent of the fixed-line market in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=103245\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom said on Tuesday that it had won 526 000 broadband customers in the fourth quarter of 2007 but had lost 2.1 million fixed-line clients over the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}