Staff writer

At a time of frequent mergers and acquisitions in the global telecommunications market, Global One, partly owned by Deutsche Telekom AG, is ahead of its competitors and has already started to implement its alliance strategy, Eugen Angster, president of Deutsche Telekom (Tokyo) said.

"AT&T and BT's forming an alliance now is what we did three years ago. ... And we are already implementing our strategy with our partners," Angster said. Global One is a joint venture of Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom S.A. and Sprint in the United States.