This IDC Insight discusses recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) developments on the Central European telecommunications market: the acquisition of GTS Central Europe by Deutsche Telekom Group, the divestment of the Czech and Slovak operations of Telefonica to a local private equity company, and the failure of the Czech telecommunications regulator to award mobile spectrum to an independent fourth player. We see these events as signs of consolidation under way in European telecommunications markets in general and in this region in particular....