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Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Bonn. Its Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) operates the Berlin Quantum Lab and runs one of Europe's leading carrier-side quantum-networking research programmes. In March 2025, T-Labs and Qunnect achieved a 17-day field demonstration of stable polarisation-entangled-photon distribution at 99% fidelity across 30 km of commercially deployed fibre with 1% downtime, presented at OFC 2025. In February 2026, T-Labs and Qunnect demonstrated quantum teleportation over a live Berlin commercial fibre network. T-Labs partners with TU Berlin, TU Dresden, TUM Munich, and Fraunhofer HHI. Deutsche Telekom is positioning entanglement distribution and QKD as foundations for future quantum-secure enterprise services.

Quantum Specifications

Quantum Focushardware

Backed By

Lakestar
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Quantum Coast Capital
Type One Ventures
Trumpf Venture
Gic Government Of Singapore Investment Corporation
Hercules Capital
Inven Capital

Application Areas

Secure communicationsTelecommunications

Research Partners

Tu Berlin

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Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Bonn. Its Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) operates the Berlin Quantum Lab and runs one of Europe's leading carrier-side quantum-networking research programmes. In March 2025, T-Labs and Qunnect achieved a 17-day field demonstration of stable polarisation-entangled-photon distribution at 99% fidelity across 30 km of commercially deployed fibre with 1% downtime, presented at OFC 20...
Deutsche Telekom is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.
Deutsche Telekom was founded in 1995.
Deutsche Telekom operates in the following sectors: quantum communications, quantum networking, qkd, quantum cryptography, quantum internet.