Joerg Rockenhaeuser, head of the German operations of financial investors Permira, has told Die Welt that there the company will not sell its 25% stake in freenet this August. Permira has the right to sell 40% of its share in freenet on 8 August, and the remainder one year later. However, Rockenhaeuser did say that ‘once freenet has stabilised in its current shape, we will slowly reduce our shareholding.’