Chairman of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, Helmut Ricke, speaking in London on Friday on the occasion of the opening of a London office, said that the Bundespost plans to invest UKP8,000m in what was formerly East Germany over a time period of seven years: Ricke said that the Bundespost needs to put around 6.5m lines into the Eastern part of Germany to bring penetration of fixed lines up to a level with the West, East Germany currently has around 1.8m lines; the Bundespost currently has 60% of East Germany covered by cellular communiations and it intends to keep cellular penetration level with fixed lines.
