In keeping with our circularity strategy, we also promote refurbishment and proper recycling of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE ). The CPE category includes modems, routers, repeaters, and TV receivers. The aim of the scheme for collection of such devices is to give the devices a second life and, where that is not feasible, to properly recycle them, in order to recover the valuable raw materials they contain.

We have reported the Take Back CPEs ESG KPI  and the numbers of refurbished CPE items involved since 2021. In 2022, more than 4 million CPE items were collected across the Group (excluding T-Mobile US), and 62 percent of that quantity were refurbished.

We are aiming to further improve the collection and refurbishment processes, and to achieve 100 percent sustainable management of collected CPE items. This would mean that all CPE items collected in Germany or by European national companies would either be refurbished, stored for future refurbishment, or recycled. Work on implementing relevant measures has already begun.