t-Online
{{Short description|German news portal}}
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t-online.de is a German news portal, owned and published by digital multi-channel media company Ströer. It reaches over 179 million visits per month{{cite web|url=http://ausweisung.ivw-online.de/index.php?i=116&mz_szm=201802&pis=0&az_filter=0&kat1=0&kat2=0&kat3=0&kat4=0&kat5=0&kat6=0&kat7=0&kat8=0&sort=vgd&suche=&it=1&setc=1&ic=1|title=Usage data|website=IVW Ausweisung Digital-Angebote|access-date=20 August 2019}} coming from 29 million unique visitors.{{cite web|url=https://www.stroeerdigitalpublishing.de/index.html%3Fp=379.html|title=STRÖER DIGITAL PUBLISHING - Companies|website=Ströer Digital Publishing|date=2 May 2022 }} The editorial team is located in Berlin.
History
In 1995 Deutsche Telekom renamed the Bildschirmtext (BTX) 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 (i.e., unlimited) 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 (T-Online) was the monopoly Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the German Internet until its privatization in 1995, and the dominant ISP thereafter.{{cite book | title= Internet Entrepreneurship in Europe: Venture Failure and the Timing of Telecommunications Reform | first= Niko Marcel | last= Waesche | pages= [https://archive.org/details/internetentrepre0000waes/page/162 162]–164 | year= 2003 | publisher= Edward Elgar Publishing | isbn= 978-1-84376-135-8 | url= https://archive.org/details/internetentrepre0000waes| url-access= registration }} Until the 21st century, Deutsche Telekom controlled almost all Internet access by individuals and small businesses in Germany.
The website t-online.de was taken over by digital multi-channel media company Ströer in 2015. In addition to acquiring a major news site, the synergy enables Ströer to publish T-Online editorial content via a network of public video screens in shopping malls as well as train and subway stations.{{Cite web|url=http://onetoone.de/de/artikel/stroeer-uebernimmt-interactive-media-und-t-online-de|title = Ströer übernimmt Interactive Media und T-online.de}}
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