After the Takeover by Vodafone last year, the cable network operator Unitymedia will now disappear completely from the market. The two companies had already bundled their offerings, in the future, Unitymedia will not be as brand presence, such as Vodafone announced. For the customer to change except for the name but nothing.

In the Wake of the merger, Vodafone will save up to 135 million euros in personnel costs. This will be achieved through a reduction of around 1300 of the approximately 16 000 jobs in the two companies, as a Vodafone spokesman confirmed. The reduction of Vodafone put on socially acceptable solutions. A corresponding social plan had already been with the workers ' representatives agreed.

Unitymedia has around 7.2 million cable, telephone and Internet customers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg. The EU Commission had given last summer, the green light for the Takeover. Against the merger of the Cologne telecommunications provider NetCologne has filed a lawsuit in the General court of the European Union. The Cologne-criticise a distortion of competition to the detriment of the regional providers, as you told on Monday.

Vodafone announced on Monday at the same time, a further major step in the Expansion of its very fast Internet connections. At a stroke, the number of households increases with so-called Gigabit connection from last almost 12 million nationwide, 17 million, said Germany CEO Hannes Ametsreiter in a statement to journalists in Stuttgart. By the end of 2022 there will be 24 million. Vodafone is upgrading in the first place its existing cable network. This network will be expanded continuously, said Ametsreiter.

Vodafone is far and away the biggest driver of the Gigabit expansion in Germany. According to the company, the technology other providers, included in - current in about every second household in Germany available. Much of it is not using the technology, according to a study from last year so far but even. In the FOCUS Online/Wochit In the