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list. I never thought I would someday live here. During my adolescent years in Germany I always dreamed of getting a college education, although no one in my family had done so. Looking back, I wish I would have had more guidance as how to continue after high school. Initially I wanted to apply at an art school, but the student career counselor had told me the application deadline for admission had already expired. An alternative choice was a language related course. The counselor advised me to first apply for an administrative course, since those were supposed to be a good foundation for language related fields. Therefore, I applied for different administrative offered in our area and got accepted for a 3 year vocational course with Deutsche Telekom in Heidelberg, Germany in coalition with the local vocational business school Willy-Hellpach-Schule. It was a marvelous experience and while I learned an abundance of new skills this was not supposed to be the end of my career path, but life threw me a major curve ball. At the end of the 3 years of training I had reached one of those infamous crossroads in life when I met a US soldier who was stationed in Heidelberg and we ended up getting married. My plans for a higher education were temporarily put on hold. To do my part financially, I took an administrative job at the city hall in the small town of Leimen processing passport applications and registrations while occasionally helping out with translations in the immigration…

it is particularly interesting to have a detailed look on the process of privatization of the German market leader Deutsche Telekom. First, the history of Deutsche Telekom will be discussed and some background information about the telecommunication industry will be given. This will be followed by a theoretical point of view why privatizing former SOEs was suggested by many specialists at that particular time. Subsequently, the concrete privatization of Deutsche Telekom will be discussed. In…

identifies orange and deutsche telekom as competitors of Vodafone. Considering these TWO companies as benchmarked by Vodafone for its financial performance normally I will use these benchmarks to compare Vodafone sustainable practices with to identify and evaluate which of companies are better off in its sustainability practices and why. There is a limitation i.e. I have picked these competitors from yahoo finance and are assuming they are benchmarked by Vodafone for determining its sustainable…

calculated current ratio “CR” was 63.56% for Verizon in 2015 and 105.40% in 2014. However, the average for the five years was 1.2215. According to Plunkett Research Ltd (2015), the average in the industry, based on 54 companies, became 97.17% in 2014. Further, its competitors including BT Group plc, Deutsche Telekom AG, and NTT DOCOMO, Inc., pointed out current ratios of 0.97, 0.96 and 2.17 respectively. Therefore, Verizon performs efficiently above the industry in terms of having sufficient…

Bell. The company had recorded revenues of $132.4 billion in the financial year ending December 2014. (Yahoo Finance, 2015) The Company 's wireline subsidiaries operate twenty-one states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. (Rueters, 2016). The majority of its revenue measured at 55% comes from the wireless…

analyzed, the data generated by these products and services indicates how well they are functioning and how they are used. Closer interaction with customers- enabled by these new processes, products, and services. Industry 4.0 makes the value chain more responsive, allowing industrial manufacturers to reach end customers more directly and tailor their business models accordingly. Industry 4.0 also enables business models that take advantage of the economics of mass customization, where every…

6.2. Major Potential Challenges The benefits of One.Finance project are very convincing, however the upcoming international rollouts are complex and more challenging. It is very important to understand that the processes of One.Finance (OFI) are not much different from old processes in Germany. Therefore, rollout in Germany was pretty much smoother but for international rollout Deutsche Telekom will face some challenges as given in the following table. Table 6. 1: Identification of major…

SingTel, StarHub, M1 and SCV (StarHub TV Operator)”. There are only two key business of mobile and fixed broadband that completion can be classified as intense. Even then SingTel only faces two competitors in the mobile market, i.e., StarHub and M1. In the fixed broadband market, the heavy capital investment itself is a deterrent which limits the market to basically a two horse race between SingTel and StarHub. Despite the gloomy picture that has been painted for the telecom industry, there is…

2009 to upgrade their network to support third generation technology (3G). After the 3G network was released, they came out with the LTE network. In 2011 AT&T’s LTE network covered 150 million users; by 2013 it covered 250 million users. When they released their LTE network they upgraded their currently used HSPA+ protocol. AT&T has one the largest networks on the market; they are offering speeds that compete with Verizon wireless and Sprints services. In AT&T’s future they plan to cut off the…

company’s primary focus and drive through its core competencies. As the company grew to be the largest in the industry, they remained focused on the leading edge of mobile technology. 1. Tangible Resources - Strong (a) Financial Resources - Strong Vodafone had been operating on a net profit year to year of several hundreds of millions of pounds, allowing for plenty of acquisitions and money to be spent on research anddevelopment. Vodafone had the…