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Shoot for the Starlink: How Deutsche Telekom hopes to close Europe's cellular dead zones

Speaking to Euronews Next at the 20th Mobile World Congress, Deutsche Telekom discussed partnering with Starlink, integrating more AI, and how they're navigating global growth while protecting EU sovereignty.

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00:00We have the best network in all countries we operate in, undisputed network leadership with
00:06coverage over 90% in most of our European countries. However, there's always the last
00:1110%, 5%, 1% that's uncovered. The forests, the mountains, the islands, there our customers are
00:19asking for ubiquitous communication everywhere and that's what we can offer with Starlink and
00:26that fits very well to our vision of being networks of network provider. We believe in
00:32partnerships across the world and we are the transatlantic network provider and we have an
00:38operation in US with our daughter company T-Mobile US with our investment there and also in this part
00:46of the Atlantic. Now what it means is we work with partners that offer the best communication, the
00:52best services and we believe Starlink can provide us that right now. Digital sovereignty. Sovereignty
00:58is a very important question. If you look at enterprise or even individuals they ask the
01:02question where is my data residing? Under which regulation is this being accessed through and who
01:11is accessing it? And so there's element of exactly the law and the norms of the country European and
01:18also the physical data residents. All those elements we can solve by having for example industrial AI
01:25sovereign data center like we have right now. There's element of hardware and there's element of
01:31technology and the reality is we live in an interconnected world where material comes from the east,
01:39where hardware chips comes from the west and some software comes from all over the world. So the key is
01:46how do we make sure that we have a controllable environment where our data is secure, access to
01:52data is regulated under European norm and regulation and who accesses it is really in a sovereign
01:57environment. That, yes, Europe can do and we're doing and there's more and more coming in Europe. I mean
02:03I recently saw that there were 27 unicorns last year alone created in Europe. There is opportunity,
02:08I am optimistic if we get our acts together.
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