This month the German postal minister will award a licence to one of two competing consortia to operate a Personal Communications Network for the country, Reuter reports from Bonn: the consortia are E-Star, led by Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and E-Plus, led by Thyssen AG, and they both promise to create thousands of jobs in […]
This month the German postal minister will award a licence to one of two competing consortia to operate a Personal Communications Network for the country, Reuter reports from Bonn: the consortia are E-Star, led by Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and E-Plus, led by Thyssen AG, and they both promise to create thousands of jobs in eastern Germany if they win – the E-Star consortium expects to create 1,600 direct jobs and another 3,400 jobs at partner firms and suppliers in the east, and the E-Plus consortium plans to create 3,500 jobs in the east out a total 8,000 jobs; E-Star says it will be based in east Berlin and site its technical centre and two of three sales centres in the east; in addition to BMW, which has 20% of E-Star, major owners include MAN AG, RWE Energie AG, Metallgesellschaft AG, GTE Mobile Communication International Inc and US West Inc; five east German partners also belong to E-Star with Jenoptik GmbH holding 1% and the remaining four firms holding 0.1% each; the other members of the competing E-Plus consortium were not listed.
