Deutsche Telekom released 2002 figures showing strong customer growth across all its major service segments. Some highlights:
- For 2002, the number of mobile customers served by Deutsche Telekom and its affiliates increased by more than 25% to almost 82 million. T-Mobile USA added more than one million subscribers in Q4 alone, giving it a total of 9.9 million.
As of 31-December-2002, Deutsche Telekom had sold over 3.1 million T-DSL lines, up by 41% or nearly a million subscribers in a year.
Demand for T-ISDN continued to grow. The number of channels in use in Germany increased from around 20.4 million to 22.4 million. In a corresponding development, the number of analogue lines in the German fixed network shrunk - primarily a reflection of the substitution effect and a trend that was also apparent in T-Com's Eastern European affiliates.
Deutsche Telekom's total number of telephone lines served (including ISDN channels) rose to 57.5 million, up from 56.9 million at the end of 2001.
The company's T-Online Internet service had 12.2 million users at the end of 2002, up from 10.7 a year earlier.
