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...Ricke, the embattled CEO of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG, efforts to revive the company's sagging domestic business and boost the share price were just too little too late. Shareholders of Europe's biggest telecommunications company, which also owns the successful American wireless company T-Mobile, have lost confidence in management's ability to stop the dramatic decline in its domestic business, according to people familiar with the situation. One of those big shareholders is the U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group, which has been exerting American-style, do-it-now pressure on one of Germany's iconic...
...leading candidate to replace Ricke is Rene Obermann, the boyish CEO of T-Mobile, Telekom's fast-growing international mobile phone unit and the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. Obermann is the candidate preferred by the German government and labor representatives on the supervisory board. But there is some opposition to Obermann's appointment by investors and supervisory board members, who would rather see an outside executive with international experience...
...former German telephone monopoly Deutsche Telekom took a leap of faith across the Atlantic and bought an upstart U.S. mobile-phone company called VoiceStream Wireless for $46.5 billion. Telekom's management was excoriated for paying an exorbitant price for the smallest operator in a crowded market, dwarfed by giants Cingular, Verizon and Sprint. But the bet paid off. Today, the U.S. arm of T-Mobile, the German mother ship's wireless unit, is still ranked fourth, but it is the fastest-growing part of the $75 billion company and well on its way to becoming Telekom's largest revenue source...
That's why Telekom's CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke just opened his wallet again and spent $4.2 billion to span a high-speed 3G wireless network across the U.S. "We want to maximize our sales in the U.S. and expand T-Mobile USA into the largest single unit in the group," Ricke told reporters in New York City...
Ashley C. “Ash” Dyer, a recent MIT graduate, worked as a student on a public-access wireless network for people near MIT’s campus...