Vielsurfer have to pay more: telecom flat rate will continue up to 20 € more expensive - ABC Online

In the dispute over the data limits of Deutsche Telekom concrete prices were now for the first time called: Customers must be set in the future up to 20 € extra costs per month for their Internet Flatrate

The additional costs for flat-rate customers. from ten to 20 euros per month announced CEO René Obermann on Wednesday at the time of submission of the interim report for the first quarter of 2013. But he stressed that an accurate price at the present time is not predictable. The criticized from many sides plan to implement monthly data caps, Obermann again defended: “The fact that we are not only showered with praise, was clear. We do not ignore the criticism, “said Obermann

., The Telekom boss pointed to the rapid increase in data volumes and the billion-expenditures for the expansion of the networks as well as the fierce competition in the industry. By 2016, some six billion euros will be invested in the fixed network. “We need and want to earn back the investment.” Telecom Germany boss Niek Jan van Damme stressed that the planned price differentiation in the sense of all customers was and said. “Everyone who runs the faucet has to pay”

The Telekom had on 2 May initially established for new customers monthly data caps for fixed flat rates, from which the internet speed must be curbed dramatically. The speed brake should engage at the earliest in 2016. Critics upset mainly because telecom services such as Internet TV entertainment as opposed to competing services such as watch Ever to be exempt from the volume limit.