Deutsche Telekom adds 413,000 Entertain TV subscribers in 2012

Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has released results for 2012.

Germany

The number of customers with the Internet-based television service Entertain went up by 26.6 percent year-on-year to 2.0 million. Entertain via Sat, available since September 2011, made up 299,000 of the total.

Germany TV (including satellite) customer numbers (thousands):

                                  2012   2011   2010       4Q12 v 4Q11
            --------------------------  -----  -----  ----------------
               4Q     3Q     2Q     1Q     4Q     4Q  Change  Change %
            -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  ------  --------	
Total       1,966  1,906  1,830  1,725  1,553  1,156     413      26.6
 Consumer   1,804                       1,434  1,070     370      25.8
 Business     161                         117     86      44      37.6

Europe

The most important growth areas remained stable despite the difficult economic conditions. The number of broadband customers increased by 3.9 percent to 4.8 million. At 18 percent, IPTV growth continued apace in almost all markets.

Europe IPTV customer numbers, December 31st (thousands):

                                  2012   2011       4Q12 v 4Q11
            --------------------------  -----  ----------------
               4Q     3Q     2Q     1Q     4Q  Change  Change %
            -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  ------  --------   
Total         954    903    872    842    809     145     17.9%
 Greece        45     44     42     46     50      -5    -10.0%
 Romania       40     37     35     31     29      11     37.9%
 Hungary      312    290    275    256    226      86     38.1%
 Croatia      333    322    323    323    323      10      3.1%
 Slovakia     104    100     96     95     94      10     10.6%