By Noel Young

Germany is dumping US based Verizon Communications as a network provider following reports about spy surveillance by the U.S and particularly the Edward Snowden affair. Deutsche Telekom is likely to get the business .

“The federal government wants to win back more technological sovereignty and therefore prefers to work with German companies,” Tobias Plate, an interior ministry spokesman, said at a press conference in Berlin, reported by Bloomberg.

Germany is using an option in the current Verizon contract to end the arrangement next year, Plate said. He declined to confirm whether the German government had Read full story ›

Source: The Drum