BERLIN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom said
on Tuesday that it had sold its Dutch unit T-Mobile Netherlands
to a consortium of private equity houses Apax and Warburg Pincus
for 5.1 billion euros ($6.05 billion).
Deutsche Telekom acquired control of the Dutch business from
Sweden's Tele2 in 2018 but never considered the unit,
which ranked a distant third behing market leaders KPN
and Vodafone Ziggo, as a core asset.
Speculation on a possible sale had surfaced in recent weeks
with India's Reliance Industries also named as a
contender.
($1 = 0.8425 euros)
(Reporting by Douglas Busvine, editing by Emma Thomasson)