The start was stony, but now the Deutsche Telekom can book a small success. We announced today that an agreement with ARD and ZDF was decided. This enables the company to distribute the digital programmes of public broadcasters on its own IPTV offering.

The program is currently available via the VDSL network of Deutsche Telekom in so far ten metropolitan areas. Part of this offer is also the “T-com honorary lounge”, which every weekend the football Bundesliga be transferred via the rounds and which several times negative headlines in recent weeks.

By feeding the digital services of ARD and ZDF in the IPTV network, now over 100 channels are currently available, so the Telekom in a press release. Also, we had recently with ProSiebenSat.1. 1 transmitter family agreed, discussions with the RTL Group take place at the time. This development led Board Member Walter Raizner to make the following statement: “The development of our IPTV service is on track.” “This applies to the contracts with broadcasters as well as for the technical roll-out.”

The technical basis for the IPTV offer put the T-com with the introduction of a VDSL service, which currently offers speeds of up to 25 MB per second and allows to the so-called “triple play”. This offer includes also phone and television via an Internet connection in addition to Internet. Currently, up to three million households benefit from such a connection can be used; the end of the year it should be those six.

In the past few days, T-com with the VDSL connections was repeatedly reported problems. Finally, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that one could call just 43 customers his own at the start of the Bundesliga. Furthermore, was there suggestion that the launch of VDSL due to technical difficulties on the October of this year could delay.