t-online.de is Germany’s biggest news portal, owned and published by digital multi-channel media companyStröer. It reaches over 179 million visits per month coming from 29 million unique visitors and is known for its progressive approaches to increase its audience further. The editorial team in Berlin has a dedicated editor for voice devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. t-online.de has also the ability to use Out-of-home-Displays to feature its stories in Germany's largest cities.
History
In 1995 Deutsche Telekom renamed the Bildschirmtext service as "T-Online". In Spring 2000, T-Online became the first major ISP in Germany to offer a flat-rate dialup plan for consumers. This was important because local telephone calls in Germany, including dialup access to ISPs, were not offered on a flat price per call basis. The flat-rate service was also offered to customers with ISDN connections at the same price as for analog service. In Spring 2001, T-Online announced the demise of the flat-rate dialup plan but offered a flat-rate DSL plan in its place. Deutsche Telekom was the monopoly Internet Service Provider for the German Internet until its privatization in 1995, and the dominant ISP thereafter. Until the 21st century, Deutsche Telekom controlled almost all Internet access by individuals and small businesses in Germany.
T-Online France
is the French subsidiary of T-Online International AG, Deutsche Telekom's internet arm and has about 1 million registered customers and 2,000 points of sale in convenience stores and supermarkets. Its portal receives more than 30 million visits and 213 million pages are viewed per month. T-Online had an estimated 13.4 million customers in Europe in the first quarter of 2004 and a sales volume of about 1.58 billion euro in 2002; the business unit, which is based in Darmstadt, has about 2600 employees, of which 2000 are located in Germany.
Online portal
The website t-online.de was taken over by digital multi-channel media company Ströer in 2015. In addition to acquiring Germany’s number one news site, the synergy enables Ströer to publish T-Online premium content via a network of public video screens in shopping malls as well as train and subway stations.
