Deutsche Telekom and RSA partner to offer 'clean pipe' against hackers

Deutsche Telekom said it would launch a secure internet service next year for smaller companies that find it hard to pay for defenses against sophisticated forms of cyber crime.

The firm presented the plan at a cyber security conference at its Bonn headquarters as a diplomatic row rages between the United States and Europe over spying accusations.

Last month Deutsche Telekom urged German communications companies to cooperate in shielding local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services. It said on Monday that, for a fixed monthly fee, small and medium-sized firms would be able to access the internet via Deutsche Telekom data centers, where content would transported via a secure data line known as a 'clean pipe'. "Hackers will have no chance," Deutsche Telekom's management board member Reinhard Clemens said.