Deutsche Telekom

Who owns it

No filing-sourced ownership yet. That means we haven’t found a filing — not that the company has no owners.

1 further ownership link is recorded, but not from a filing we can point you to, so it is not shown here.

What’s documented

• 2024-12-31lobbyingDeutsche Telekom AG, through its majority-owned US subsidiary T-Mobile US, spent approximately $7.5 million on federal lobbying in 2024, according to Lobbying Disclosure Act filings aggregated by OpenSecrets. Disclosed lobbying issues include telecommunications regulation, spectrum policy, and broadband infrastructure.source →
• 2024-11-05politicalDonationT-Mobile USA's Political Action Committee (T-PAC), a subsidiary PAC of Deutsche Telekom-controlled T-Mobile US, contributed approximately $958,000 to federal candidates in the 2023-2024 election cycle, per Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. T-PAC is a monthly-contribution corporate PAC registered since September 2000.source →
• 2024-08-15regulatoryActionCFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) imposed a record $60 million civil penalty on T-Mobile US, Inc. — the US subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG — for failing to comply with national security commitments under a 2018 National Security Agreement (NSA) entered in connection with T-Mobile's merger with Sprint Corporation. Between August 2020 and June 2021, T-Mobile failed to prevent unauthorized access to certain sensitive law enforcement data and delayed reporting incidents to CFIUS. The penalty is the largest ever imposed by CFIUS and the first enforcement action in which the regulator publicly named the targeted company.source →
• 2020-04-01regulatoryActionThe proposed $26 billion merger of Deutsche Telekom's US subsidiary T-Mobile US with Sprint Corporation was challenged by nine US states and Washington D.C. in the antitrust case New York v. Deutsche Telekom AG. On July 26, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice conditionally approved the merger, requiring T-Mobile to divest Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Sprint's prepaid business to Dish Network for $1.4 billion. On February 11, 2020, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero rejected the states' challenge, finding the merger procompetitive. T-Mobile separately settled with 12 states and D.C. in March 2020. The merger closed April 1, 2020, creating the third-largest US wireless carrier.source →

What we’ve classified so far

• political influence2

2 further documented actions have not been classified yet. These counts show what we have got to, not a total.