| [Berlin, GERMANY] Deutsche Telekom is rejecting the introduction of a
wholesale flat rate as "not feasible". Hans-Willi Hefekauser, Deutsche
Telekom manager responsible for the area of regulation, told the Associated
Press on Sunday that, due to already existing technological bottlenecks, he
believes a flat rate will only be possible through investments of several
billion German marks. The wholesale flat rate, an all-inclusive price not
based on the amount of time spent online, is being called for by competing
Internet service providers so that they can offer their end customers a
marketable flat rate.
NOTICE ::
By suggesting that we analyze a wholesale market, GTE proposes that we examine inputs Deutsche Telekom with 1.8 percent, and Sprint with 1.6 percent.
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The AfoD ("Angebot fur Online-Dienste", or tender for online services) is a
charge that Internet service providers must pay to Deutsche Telekom for the
use of the telephone lines. Even Telekom's own Internet subsidiary,
T-Online, must pay this charge. The price has sunk to 1.5 pfennigs (US $0.02)
per minute, and the ex-monopoly Telekom argues that this is a price
reduction of 80 percent over the past two years.
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Motorola and Deutsche Telekom have revealed a collaboration to deliver IPTV in . Kangaroo’s ability to set prices for wholesale content and advertising.
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Hefekauser referred to Internet access over the narrowband telephone network
as a "technological dead end" in which investments would not be able to pay
for themselves. Prospects lie instead in broadband DSL technology, which
Telekom hopes to have expanded to the point of blanket coverage in one to
one and half years. Hefekauser called for competitors to switch their
Internet connections over to DSL so that they could be directed past the
normal telephone network. Normal lines would still be used between the
user's private residence and the switching center, but the DSL signal would
be completely separated from normal telephone communication before reaching
the switching equipment and connected to the Internet by way of high-speed
data lines. It would therefore not matter how long a computer was connected
to the Internet.
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Apple Computer (AAPL) said today it has reduced wholesale prices of its Power Macintosh .. with the option to switch to flat-rate pricing starting today.
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