Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has landed a contract worth more than €100m to operate the truck toll system in Germany.

Toll Collect has once again entrusted T-Systems with operating the IT for the truck toll system. T-Systems prevailed over its competitors in a tender process.

T-Systems has been managing the IT landscape for Toll Collect (www.toll-collect.de) since 2005, most recently at the data centre in Munich. Now, it is moving the applications to a private cloud at the data centres in Magdeburg and Biere. The contract is in the three-digit million euro range. It has a term of eight years with an option to extend for four years.

“We have been supporting Toll Collect as an IT partner for two decades and contribute reliably to operational stability, data security and efficiency,” said Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems and member of the board at Deutsche Telekom (www.telekom.com). “Now we are continuing this success story and moving the applications to a sovereign private cloud that we are rebuilding for Toll Collect. This enables us to offer maximum protection for infrastructure and data.”

Christoph Ahrendt, who is responsible for the toll business at T-Systems (www.t-systems.com), added: “With our satellite-based, modular toll platform, we are the leader in Europe. We have been operating the truck toll system in Belgium since 2016. And just in March, together with the Grenoble-based company GEA, we were awarded the contract to equip and operate a truck toll system on selected roads in Alsace. The new contract with Toll Collect underscores our growing importance in this segment.”