FRANKFURT (AFX) - Deutsche Telekom AG is to offer broadband internet access to every German citizen by the year 2012 at the latest, its chief executive Kai-Uwe Ricke said.

"That is a promise," Ricke said in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel to be published tomorrow.

The move will be possible because Deutsche Telekom is planning to switch its old telephone network to a new network based on internet protocol technology, the magazine quoted Ricke as saying. newsdesk@afxnews.com jfb/ak

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