Deutsche Telekom surpassed the 4.0 million subscriber milestone for DSL, up 40% for 2003. In Q4 alone, Deutsche Telekom's T-Com division added more than 300,000 net DSL customers. The company also serves an additional 110,000 DSL customers in Eastern Europe.
Despite the strong uptake for DSL, demand for the Deutsche Telekom's T-ISDN service continues to grow. The number of ISDN channels operated by T-Com in Germany increased year-on-year from 20.7 to 21.5 million. However, Deutsche Telekom posted a slight decline in the number of standard analog lines it serves, which now stands at 27.2 million, down from 28.6 million a year earlier. The company attributed this loss to the migration from analog to T-Com's more advanced lines as well as to growing competition and regulatory action.
Some additional 2003 operational statistics for Deutsche Telekom:
- the number of mobile customers in the Group increased by 13% to 66.2 million
- T-Mobile USA added a record number of new subscribers in Q4 with 1.02 million. It now has more than 13.1 million subscribers
- T-Mobile Deutschland remains Germany's mobile market leader with 26.3 million subscribers
- T-Mobile UK added 1.2 million new subscribers in Q4
- T-Online increased its European customer base to 13.1 million
