deutsche telekom made a point of distinguishing itself from deutsche post and its characteristic yellow on aim to find a color that works for it in its own right. the company's ads feature lots of magenta the hue is now central to the brand around the world it is registered trademarks for the color with respect to certain product groups in many countries if a competitor tries to use magenta till it comes lawyers go after it. that's placed we have to defend our right to the color if we hear of any firm using it in a product for which we have registered our trademarks we tell it to stop. if it doesn't comply it'll be a matter for the courts. we have dozens of cases involving the issue every year. we have five people in our legal department who only deal with protecting our trademark color. competitor mobile com for example dared to use the color and lost when telecom sued trademark holders taking fractions seriously when he lifted the fifth manages to establish an association of a certain color in the mind of the public it has to do whatever it can to defend it so right to it that's what

technology to make autonomous driving possible on a wide scale for example so far the bettors are deutsche telekom britain's vodafone spain's telefonica and newcomer a german newcomer united internet it's brand one and one has no network of its own . in other parts of the world five g. has already taken off in asia pacific region there are forecast to be around one hundred twenty million five g. subscriptions by two thousand and twenty one now we're vendor ericsson expects north america to be in second place with forty eight million subscriptions followed by europe which one and two million subscriptions lead america will start off with just three million and africa in the near east with two million. and let's talk now to our financial correspondent frankfurt conrad booze and. conrad big auction today how much money is this expected to fetch and how telecom carriers how much money do they stand to make from these networks. experts predict that the auction will fetch an amount between three and five billion euros which is far less than the carriers have to pay at previous auctions you know at the b

needed for autonomous driving or the so-called internet of things now so far the bidders are deutsche telekom british vodafone and spanish telefonica as well as german newcomer one and one in other parts of the world five g. has already taken off forecaster for one hundred one hundred twenty million subscriptions in the asia pacific region by two thousand and twenty one that's followed by north america by forty eight million with europe than in third place twenty two million subscriptions by twenty twenty one and then bring up the rear latin america with three million and africa with two million subscriptions and let's go now to our business correspondent paul christian brit's who's standing by in mines germany where the auction is set to take place paul you're there right now with this auction taking place does this mean that five g. is right around the corner for consumers. well steve we have a huge high above five g. but you know the super fast internet isn't going to come super fast the operators that. are are looking for the frequencies right now there are required to cover ninety eight

make autonomous driving possible on a wide scale the bettors for this lees licenses are so far deutsche telekom britain's vodafone and spain's telephony co as well as a german newcomer united internet its brand called one and one has no network but so in other parts of the world five g. has already taken off in the asia pacific region there are forecast to be around one hundred twenty million five g. subscriptions by twenty twenty one network supplier ericsson expects north america to be second place with forty eight million subscriptions by then followed by europe with twenty two million latin america will start off with just three million subscriptions and africa in the middle east with two million. it's well here in europe a controversy is a company in the build out of the five g. network almost every major telecom carrier says they need equipment from china is why the way to control costs and meet deadlines but the u.s. has been pressuring its allies to prohibit hallways components here's why. remote brain surgery in china the patient was in the beijing hospital the neurosurgeon three thous

much as three hundred to five hundred billion euro for all of europe that was an estimate by deutsche telekom their chief recently so very expensive prospect but they also hope to make a lot of money on it in the future of the government doesn't and while way is the main player in five g. globally isn't it and they have a main role to build out or could potentially absolutely brian they're one of the their furthest along probably in terms of network hardware so this is the major hubs sort of the basically the joints of the network. that these carriers are going to be installing that means that all these carriers soon all of them are going to rely on huawei in terms of cost in terms of technology it's better than the rivals you would see such as ericsson things like that those would be more expensive to use so if the government wants to build out that's affordable it's going to probably have to allow these carriers to go with huawei and what we've seen with the auction is that it has not prohibited them from using huawei which is something that could be expect now this is of deep concern to th

example that would make autonomy striving possible on a wide scale while the biggest so far are deutsche telekom britain's vodafone spain's telefonica and a german company. it's a newcomer to the market doesn't have any network of its own now. other parts of the world five g. has already taken off in the asia pacific region for example there are forecast to be about one hundred twenty million five hundred subscribers and about two years time by twenty twenty one network supplier ericsson expects north america to be following to be trailing in second place with forty eight million and that's followed by europe with twenty two million and latin america with three million the mena region the middle east and africa with about two million subscribers expected by twenty twenty one we're joined now by stephen beard he's been following this very closely today from d.w. business hi there stephen o'bryan d.w. set to be a technology that will be dominating the future of communications were right absolutely five g. is going to make everything possible from what you hear from the hype from autonomous driving

deutsche telekom and softbank. members of the committee, that is economic treason. these are two of the worst companies in the united states when it comes to the treatment of workers. they ship jobs overseas and in recent years t-mobile has been charged with more labor law violations per worker than even walmart. let's talk numbers. this merger would kill american jobs. we estimate that 30,000 americans would lose their job if this merger is approved. the wall street firm moffitt estimates this merger would kill 20,000 jobs. whether you take their number or ours, you should understand that t-mobile's job creation promises are sheer fantasy. sprint and t-mobile compete with each other for the same type of customers. often, low income households which is why their stores are located near each other. sometimes right across the street. if the companies merge, chances are they would shut down one of the two neighboring stores and most of those workers would be out of a job. what about the people lucky enough to stay employed? the merger would drive down wages for all wir