German radio tower

German radio tower
legal form	GmbH
founding	January 1, 2002 (spin-off from DeTeImmobilien )
Seat	Munster , Germany
management	Bruno Jacobfeuerborn ( chairman ), Martin Bouchard, Thomas Ried
Number of employees	approx. 800 (2019)
sales	€ 700 million (2006)
Branch	Infrastructure
Website	dfmg.de

The German Radio Tower GmbH ( DFMG ) is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG , the antenna support plans, builds and markets. In the course of organizational changes, the company also became the owner and operator of the telecommunications towers . The company is based in Münster .

The DFMG was founded on January 1st, 2002, but only started operations on October 1st, 2002. The original goal of Telekom was to sell the DFMG by 2007 in order to completely separate itself from this business area. However, it has not yet been sold.

Business area

The DFMG portfolio includes the marketing of antenna support and technical areas at tower, mast and roof locations. In addition, the DFMG builds, operates and maintains radio towers and masts. DFMG customers can then attach antennas to these, which broadcast and receive radio signals. Telekom Deutschland GmbH, part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the customers . In addition, the two other mobile network operators active in Germany, Vodafone and O _{2, are} also included. But the antenna carriers erected by the DFMG are also required outside of mobile communications, for example by predominantly private and public television and radio broadcasters , but also by BOS and amateur radio .

facts and figures

Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) owns the entire share capital . This holds 83.33% directly and the remaining 16.67% are held by the DTAG subsidiary Telekom Deutschland

The DFMG has around 800 employees (2019) who were taken over by DeTeImmobilien and T-Mobile when it was founded . The headquarters in Münster is a service provider for the ten regional agencies in Hamburg , Hanover , Berlin , Dortmund , Leipzig , Cologne , Frankfurt am Main , Nuremberg , Stuttgart and Munich . In 2006, the DFMG generated total sales of 700 million euros. The property, plant and equipment amounts to 707 million euros.

The DFMG owns around 30,000 radio sites across Germany (2019). These include around 16,000 smaller masts on house roofs (so-called “rooftops”, height up to ten meters), 8,000 free-standing masts (as spun concrete or steel lattice masts, height up to 80 meters) and 500 telecommunications towers. The most famous radio towers owned by the DFMG include the Berlin TV tower , the Heinrich Hertz tower in Hamburg and the Europaturm in Frankfurt am Main. Some well-known radio towers such as B. the Düsseldorf television tower are not owned by the DFMG, but are operated by the DFMG in the area of ​​the technical transmission systems.

Promotion of amateur radio

After the Second World War, radio amateurs from the then " Association of Radio Amateurs of the German Federal Post Office " (VFDB) and a. Locations are available on the telecommunications towers for automatic amateur radio stations.

Even after the privatization of the Deutsche Bundespost, DeTeImmo and later the DFMG continued to make these exposed locations on the towers available to the radio amateurs in the VFDB - albeit no longer free of charge.

Thus, these locations are still available to the amateur radio service in Germany today and form the "backbone" for the private, non-commercial and radio-amateurs-operated packet radio , relay and emergency radio network . Since May 1, 2007, new framework conditions apply to automatic amateur radio stations of the VFDB at DFMG locations. The restriction to a maximum of 100  watts of power consumption and a maximum of four antennas at one location means a massive cut in the operation of automatically operating amateur radio stations.

German radio tower in court

Since the construction of cell phone systems meets with resistance from part of the public, the company is repeatedly involved in legal proceedings. Here, the DFMG acts both as a plaintiff (before administrative courts if a municipality rejects a building application ), as a defendant (before civil courts if neighbors assert defense claims) and as an intervener (before administrative courts if neighbors request the revocation of a building permit from a municipality) .

In addition, the rental agreements are also regularly the subject of legal proceedings that the DFMG concludes with the owners of the properties on which antenna systems are (are to be) built. In contrast, there is rarely a dispute between the DFMG and its tenants, i.e. the antenna users. The framework agreements concluded between the companies ensure this .

Possible sale

On March 1, 2007, the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom announced a press release in which the company's new strategy of focused and targeted growth was presented. This said: “In addition, Deutsche Telekom wants to sell business units that do not fit the strategy. The […] radio towers in Germany and the USA (Deutsche Funkturm GmbH and US Towers) […]. ”On November 15, 2007, Deutsche Telekom announced that after a thorough examination of the purchase offers, Deutsche Funkturm was on the test bench no longer for sale.

According to Telekom Deutschland's annual report, the American infrastructure was sold for 1.4 billion euros in November 2012.

In mid-2017 it was reported that Telekom would plan to sell 49% of the company's shares in DFMG by the end of the year. So far, no sale has taken place, and no further details have been disclosed.

See also

• List of the television towers and transmission systems of the German radio tower

Web links

• German radio tower

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsche Telekom: Concentrate and grow in a targeted manner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Reuters: Deutsche Telekom sells neither information nor radio towers  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ circles: Telekom wants to sell radio towers by the end of the year. Retrieved July 23, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 14 ″  E