Deutsche Telekom Adds Digital Euro Role as Its Broader Growth Bet Awaits Hard Numbers - ad-hoc-news.de
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Deutsche Telekom has picked up a foothold in one of the European Central Bank's flagship infrastructure efforts, but the assignment comes with a narrow scope that investors should not confuse with a full commercial mandate. The ECB said Friday that a consortium of Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions GmbH and Nexi Payments S.p.A. will supply network services for the digital euro, handling core connectivity work. The contract took effect on 28 September. What has been awarded so far covers technical interconnection during the pilot phase only - it is not a contract for full-scale live operation. The tangible progress lies in a contractually agreed role in testing, not in a production rollout. That distinction matters because Telekom's enterprise pipeline is filling up with initiatives at very different stages of maturity. On Tuesday the company, together with Rohde & Schwarz Networks and Cybersecurity, announced a fully managed corporate network service built on German-developed networking technology and run over Telekom infrastructure, with a product launch pencilled in for 2026. Further afield, T-Systems Iberia received a proposed award on 23 October to develop and manage a sovereign public cloud for Catalonia's regional government, according to media reports. The package carries a volume of EUR 400.4 million including VAT across eight years. That figure describes a...
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