Regional conditions at its central location are excellent for Telekom Laboratories. Berlin and Brandenburg have the most closely knit university and institute research base in Germany.

Spread over four universities, seven colleges of applied science, three art colleges and over 70 publicly financed research facilities, more than 50,000 people in the region work on groundbreaking technologies and innovations. Berlin has a creative potential of around 140,000 students, and the information, telecommunications and media industries are also strongly represented in the city by around 8,000 companies with 100,000 employees.

Innovative Workplace Concept

Telekom Laboratories takes advantage of its location on the TU Berlin campus to implement an innovative workplace concept that supports the creativity of employees and a close scientific exchange. Six floors of a building were gutted and converted into a flexible, state-of-the-art, open-plan office landscape.

Open Structures

At the Telekom Laboratories communicative, open structures are the hallmark of our day-to-day research and development activities. The borders between scientific research and business - and between strategic, basic research and application-oriented research - are permeable. An interdisciplinary matrix structure, in which market-oriented development and strategic research are closely networked, ensures a dynamic exchange and acceleration of innovation cycles..

Subsidiaries in Israel, the US and in Germany

Just a year after Deutsche Telekom Laboratories was inaugurated, it opened its first subsidiary. Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University is the name of the Labs’ university outpost in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the Negev Desert. The agreement establishing the institute was signed on February 6, 2006. The focus of the new R&D facility is on research into security issues impacting telecommunications networks.

In 2008, sites additional in Berlin and Darmstadt were added; since the beginning of 2009 Telekom Laboratories are represented in Silicon Valley with the R&D Lab USA.