In July 2007 debitel was granted permission by the EU Commission to take over Elmshorn-based telecommunications company Talkline.
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In October 2008 the company owned 500 outlets in Germany, marketing what are known in Germany as 'tariff-based' products under the debitel brand on behalf of network providers such as T-Mobile, E-Plus und •
debitel also sold land-line services at this time for Deutsche Telekom's T-Home brand, Arcor, Telecom Italia) and Freenet.