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20 Net revenue

Net revenue breaks down into the following revenue categories:

millions of €

 

 

 

 

2020

2019a, b

2018a, b

Revenue from the rendering of services

79,807

65,583

61,653

Germany

20,013

19,816

20,075

United States

45,653

31,313

27,755

Europe

9,428

9,613

9,467

Systems Solutions

3,091

3,282

3,330

Group Development

1,545

1,487

967

Group Headquarters & Group Services

77

71

59

Revenue from the sale of goods and merchandisec

16,054

12,907

12,442

Germany

2,185

2,298

2,266

United States

11,922

8,569

8,170

Europe

1,484

1,553

1,588

Systems Solutions

74

93

96

Group Development

389

394

322

Group Headquarters & Group Services

0

0

0

Revenue from the use of entity assets by others

5,138

2,041

1,561

Germany

815

829

492

United States

3,631

536

596

Europe

227

229

51

Systems Solutions

78

47

9

Group Development

269

276

290

Group Headquarters & Group Services

118

124

123

Net revenue

100,999

80,531

75,656

a

Prior-year figures were adjusted retrospectively on account of a change in the allocation between revenue categories. This change relates to revenue from the use of entity assets by others of EUR 290 million in 2018 in the Group Development operating segment that had been reported under revenue from the rendering of services in the 2018 Annual Report.

b

The breakdown of revenue categories for the 2019 financial year was adjusted retrospectively in connection with the realignment of the B2B telecommunications business.

c

Revenue from the sale of goods and merchandise includes interest income of EUR 278 million in the reporting year, calculated using the effective interest method (2019: EUR 345 million; 2018: EUR 305 million). This income is primarily attributable to accrued interest on receivables in connection with handsets sold under installment plans in the United States operating segment.

Net revenue for the reporting year was EUR 101.0 billion, up EUR 20.5 billion on the prior-year level. The United States operating segment in particular contributed to the positive revenue trend, mainly as a result of the business combination with Sprint, consummated on April 1, 2020.

For information on changes in net revenue, please refer to the section “Development of business in the Group” in the combined management report.

The total transaction price attributable to performance obligations that have not been fulfilled or, in some cases, not yet fulfilled at the end of the reporting year (hereinafter: outstanding transaction price) amounts to EUR 21,821 million (2019: EUR 19,059 million).

The portion of the outstanding transaction price attributable to performance obligations that have not been fulfilled or not yet completely fulfilled at the end of the reporting year is generally recognized as revenue over the remaining term of the service contracts concluded. Since most service contracts – unless they can be canceled at any time – have a minimum contract term of 24 months, an average remaining term of approximately 12 months can be assumed, provided the course of business in the mass business remains virtually unchanged. The disclosures only refer to transactions within the scope of IFRS 15, i.e., they do not include portions of the transaction price being allocated to performance obligations outside the scope of the standard, e.g., leases.

Deutsche Telekom generally makes use of the practical expedients in IFRS 15, according to which outstanding performance obligations under contracts with an expected original term of no more than one year and revenues recognized in accordance with the billed amounts are exempt from the disclosure requirement. Individual subsidiaries deviate from this general approach and have not made use of these practical expedients for groups of contracts with similar characteristics.

Service concession arrangements

Satellic NV, Machelen, Belgium, is a fully consolidated subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and on July 25, 2014 signed a contractual arrangement with Viapass, the public agency responsible for toll collection in Belgium, for the set-up, operation, and financing of an electronic toll collection system. After Viapass accepted the system on March 30, 2016, the set-up phase was completed on March 31, 2016. The operation phase that follows will have a duration of twelve years, with the additional option for Viapass to extend the term three times by one year. Satellic has no entitlement to the toll revenue collected but will receive contractually agreed fees for setting up and operating the system. Viapass is authorized to terminate the arrangement giving notice of six months with payment of reasonable compensation. In the event of regular or premature termination of the agreement, Satellic has an obligation to hand over to Viapass, on request, material assets for the operation of the toll collection system that have not yet passed to the ownership of Viapass; in such an event, however, the software platform for toll collection would not be handed over to Viapass. The agreement was classified as a service concession arrangement within the meaning of IFRIC 12. Since the start of the operation phase on April 1, 2016, the separate fees for operation and maintenance services have been recognized as revenue in the respective periods, which totaled EUR 79 million in the reporting year (2019: EUR 66 million, 2018: EUR 67 million).