Other disclosures.
31 Notes to the consolidated statement
of cash flows.
Net cash from operating activities. Net cash from operating activities
in the 2010 financial year decreased by EUR 1.1 billion compared with
the prior-year period to EUR 14.7 billion. Aside from effects from business operations, this decrease was primarily due to the following effects: lower year-on-year cash inflows from factoring amounting to EUR 0.6 billion
and higher net outflows of EUR 0.4 billion for additions to inventories. This was partially offset by higher inflows from dividends received amounting
to EUR 0.4 billion – mainly from an interim dividend paid out by the
Everything Everywhere joint venture. The remaining changes in net cash from operating activities consisted of various partially offsetting effects.
Net cash used in investing activities. Net cash used in investing activities totaled EUR 10.7 billion as compared with EUR 8.6 billion in the previous year. This development was due in part to the addition of the cash and cash equivalents of the OTE group amounting to EUR 1.6 billion in the prior year, compared with the overall effect of the deconsolidation of T-Mobile UK, amounting to EUR 0.4 billion. In addition, Deutsche Telekom invested EUR 0.8 billion in 2010 in a bond issued by the Everything
Everywhere joint venture and posted higher outflows for intangible assets amounting to EUR 1.4 billion, which is mainly attributable to the outflows
of EUR 1.3 billion for the acquisition of mobile communications licenses (spectrum) in Germany.
Cash outflows for property, plant and equipment, which decreased by EUR 0.7 billion, and net cash outflows from the change in short-term investments and marketable securities and receivables, which improved
by EUR 0.8 billion, had an offsetting effect. In particular inflows from the return of cash collateral deposited in the prior year for the acquisition of STRATO totaling EUR 0.3 billion and the return of collateral deposited for hedging transactions amounting to a net total of EUR 0.3 billion contributed to this development in the financial year ended on December 31, 2010.
In addition, cash outflows for the acquisition of companies decreased by EUR 0.6 billion. While cash outflows amounting to EUR 1.0 billion for the acquisition of further shares in OTE and of ZAPP were recorded in the 2009 financial year, the 2010 financial year saw cash outflows of EUR 0.3 billion for the acquisition of STRATO and EUR 0.1 billion for the acquisition of ClickandBuy.
Net cash used in financing activities. Net cash used in financing activities amounted to EUR 6.4 billion, compared with EUR 5.1 billion in the prior year.
This is attributable to a net issuance of non-current financial liabilities of EUR 3.1 billion (2009: EUR 5.3 billion) and outflows for the share buy-back totaling EUR 0.4 billion. These factors were offset by the net repayment
of current financial liabilities which decreased by EUR 1.3 billion, and
the dividends paid out by OTE and Slovak Telekom which declined by EUR 0.2 billion and EUR 0.1 billion respectively.
The issue of financial liabilities in the 2010 financial year consisted in
particular of the sale of medium-term notes for EUR 1.8 billion, the sale of euro bonds amounting to EUR 1.2 billion, the net borrowing of funds from the joint venture in the United Kingdom in the amount of EUR 0.3 billion,
a loan of EUR 0.1 billion from the European Investment Bank and the issue of promissory notes for EUR 0.1 billion. In the same period, USD bonds amounting to EUR 2.4 billion, euro bonds amounting to EUR 2.0 billion,
a loan of EUR 0.6 billion from the European Investment Bank, medium term notes amounting to EUR 0.3 billion and a loan of EUR 0.2 billion from KfW Bankengruppe were repaid. In addition, the net returns from hedging transactions totaled EUR 0.5 billion.
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