Yes Telecom plans summer arrival in Germany

Dutch mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Yes Telecom has announced it plans to enter the German wireless market in the summer of 2009. According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database, there are over 50 mobile resellers in Germany’s wireless market, but only one, freenet, provides serious competition to the facilities-based operators, following its takeover of main MVNO rival debitel in July 2008. At the end of March 2009 freenet boasted a wireless subscriber base of 18.53 million.