Telecommunications Magazine reported that Deutsche Telekom is backing away from VDSL2 for their IPTV rollout and will instead move forward using ADSL2+. The motivating factors appear to be cost savings and a possible challenge to regulatory protection for unbundling and wholesaling their VDSL2 service by the EU.

"The move to ADSL2+ has been speculated for some time," says a spokesperson for Commerzbank, based in Germany. "Deutsche Telekom has more pressing capex priorities, such as building out a next-generation IP network to reduce operational expenditure."