LONDON Canada Goose sale (Reuters) Vodafone is in talks with Deutsche Telekom on a wholesale deal that would allow the British company to offer its German customers TV over superfast broadband, a person familiar with the canada goose clearance sale situation said.
A woman cheap canada goose uk talks on a mobile telephone as she passes canada goose factory outlet a Vodafone store in central London November 8, 2008. REUTERS/Luke canada goose outlet uk sale MacGregor
Vodafone, traditionally a mobile only company which has to rent fixed lines in some markets to offer broadband, has come under pressure from investors and analysts to show how it can canada goose outlet online uk compete with cable TV groups and telecom firms who can lure customers with canada goose outlet black friday a combined offer for mobile, fixed canada goose outlet jackets calls, broadband and canada goose outlet TV.
The combined offer, particularly from cable operators, has proved increasingly canada goose outlet store uk attractive as consumers watch more programming on TV, laptops and smartphones.
Some investors had feared the trend would force Vodafone to go on a Europe wide spending spree to buy fixed line cheap canada goose assets, and sources told Reuters in February that it was weighing a 10 billion euro bid for cable operator Kabel Deutschland.
But the fixed line canada goose outlet uk wholesale talks in Germany and a plan announced in March to build a fibre broadband network with France Telecom in Spain shows that Vodafone has options other than acquisitions. Shares in Kabel Deutschland were down 2.5 percent at 1350 GMT.
Vodafone declined to comment and Deutsche Telekom did not reply to requests for comment on Thursday.
Some analysts have said that Canada Goose Jackets the approach to Kabel Deutschland could have canada goose outlet new york city been designed to negotiate better wholesale terms from Deutsche Telekom.
The https://www.buchholz-net.de person familiar with canada goose outlet canada goose coats on sale canada the situation, talking on condition of anonymity, said Vodafone Germany and Deutsche had opened talks in December canada goose black friday sale about agreeing a new wholesale deal for so called VDSL bitstream technology. Vodafone has 34 million customers in Germany.
VDSL helps to increase speeds from a traditional copper network and the talks are about access to this and developments currently being worked on by Deutsche, called VDSL on a canada goose uk outlet layer 2 basis and vectoring, which will provide even faster speeds of up to 100 Mbits per second and ensure the smooth delivery of TV over canada goose outlet reviews the internet.
The 100 Mbits per second compares to current levels of around 16 Mbits.
The source said discussions had been slow but were due to resume soon and that Vodafone did not rule out having to resort to the local regulator to seek help if they could not agree a price that works for both sides.
Vodafone already owns Canada Goose Parka some fixed line assets in canada goose outlet parka Europe, including in Germany where it offers mobile and fixed lines to private and business customers, but it has quad play services with TV, fixed and mobile calls on superfast networks only in Portugal.