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Corporate Reports  Deutsche Telekom deeply in the red on
writedowns  Deutsche Telekom of Germany has reported massive
losses, putting them down primarily to merger-related writedowns
in the US. But the company said revenues had been stable,
allowing for an unchanged dividend.  German telecommunications
giant Deutsche Telekom announced Thursday it logged a bottom-
line loss of 5.25 billion euros ($6.9 billion) for 2012.  "We
recorded the net loss primarily due to the recognition of an
impairment loss of 7.4 billion euros on T-Mobile USA," Chief
Executive Rene Obermann said in a statement.  He explained it
was a non-cash, purely accounting effect as a consequence of the
planned business cooperation between T-Mobile USA and its
competitor MetroPCS, taking into consideration that Deutsche
Telekom's US subsidiary was worth more years ago than at the
time the merger was announced last October.  No need to wor