Deutsche Telekom first announced the signing of the deal to purchase GTS CE in November 2013 for €546 million in hopes of augmenting the company strategy “of building a pan-European network.”

With GTS CE serving some 35,000 business customers in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, T-Com sees an opportunity to “add fixed line networks in […] countries where its operations are primarily based on wireless services” with the buyout.