Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest phone company by sales, indicated it had a nine-month loss excluding one-time gains and charges as it spent money on winning new customers in its mobile-phone division. Net income including one-time gains rose to 8.4 billion euros in the first nine months. That's with 10.86 billion euros of gains from the sales of stakes in Global One, T-Online International AG, Wind SpA and from the sale of two cable units. The company said pretax charges amounted to 1.8 billion euros, while recent acquisitions wiped 1.4 billion euros off profit. The company said it doubled its mobile-phone customers from the same period last year, though added that ``high acquisition costs'' hurt earnings. The Bonn-based company will release final nine-month profit Nov. 30, it said in a statement released on the Frankfurt stock exchange news wire.
