It is always funny to read something like this: "[..] the telco, one of Germany's largest [..]"
There are effectively only three mobile providers in Germany. 1&1 is the fourth, but its network doesn't even cover the whole country.
From those three networks, Telefonica is the smallest by quite a margin. So the sentence in the article is technically correct, but draws a nonsensical picture.
There are effectively only three mobile providers in Germany. 1&1 is the fourth, but its network doesn't even cover the whole country. From those three networks, Telefonica is the smallest by quite a margin. So the sentence in the article is technically correct, but draws a nonsensical picture.