Deutsche Telekom in TV tie-up with Microsoft

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Deutsche Telekom has inked an agreement with Microsoft on an alliance to deliver next-generation television to consumers across Germany.

The alliance will enable Deutsche Telekom (nyse: DT - news - people ) to deliver next-generation television, as well as complementary interactive services and a range of entertainment products, over its ultra high-speed VDSL broadband network. Under the agreement, Telekom will use Microsoft Internet Protocol Television software to deliver TV on the network.

Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) will support Deutsche Telekom with marketing to help develop IPTV in the country. The agreement reached with the giant telco is Microsoft's largest IPTV-contract on the continent to date and its second largest worldwide

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