telekom

It is a German thing as well: The Telekom sells mobile user data [1] (link in German).

And then there is also former Telekom CEO Obermann who dropped out of University to found his mobile phone business.

Fun fact, the Telekom US has a better Coverage then the mother company in germany..

Up until recently Deutsche Telekom was basically non-existent at the DE-CIX (Germany's largest Internet Exchange).

Nexus devices get the Android updates first, then unlocked phones and then telekom provider.

There are only four actual network operators in Germany: Telekom Deutschland (D1), Vodafone (D2), E-Plus (E1) and Telefónica Germany / O2 (E2).

If Apple decides that you should upgrade (or not) there's little Deutsche Telekom or Verizon or any other middlevendor can do about it.

How does Deutsche Telekom stack up against Comcast on a per-mile cost basis?

As for Telekom Malaysia, TM has the same reputation that BT has in the UK - shitty service, but Malaysians are stuck with them.

That it's closed against us is not nice at all, but being closed against Deutsche Telekom and Verizon and such is a feature, not a bug.

Presumably the Deutsche Telekom asked to have the passage removed.

In other words, German Telekom will have to compete with Finland for price, and thus can't afford to raise it's prices for fear of losing customers to Finland.

The commentator "jand" already explained very good, how the Telekom is acting in Germany...

The moment that happens, Telekom will hook them up with DSL faster than anyone can say "Internet".

"the circumvention of data caps sold by Deutsche Telekom (totally different from T-Mobile US) for users of Spotify." This is not net neutrality, it is just Deutsche Telekom bundling a product with their subscriptions.

In practice just ~1% of the resolvers (Comcast, NTT, Telekom, etc.) are handling >90% of your users.

What's your opinion on accelerators / incubators backed by big corporations such as Wayra (Telefonica) or hub:raum (Deutsche Telekom)?

The only European giants I can think of are Telefonica, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and SAP.