Internal documents show that the federal government, in the person of the then Transport and Digital Minister, deliberately sacrificed tougher regulation.
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Hamburg The German mobile communications market is like a cake that has been distributed amazingly fairly. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland (O2) each claim around a third. The pieces grow or shrink – as is currently the case with Vodafone – from time to time. But basically the magenta-red-blue harmony has been preserved in recent years. One consequence: mobile phone charges are comparatively high in Germany – and are likely to rise even further this year.
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