German telco Deutsche Telekom has acquired GTS Central Europe, which builds its offering on regional and metro network infrastructure in Poland and the Czech Republic as well as 14 data centers dotted across the region.

On top of data centers in Poland and the Czech Republic, the deal includes a data center in Budapest, where Deutsche Telekom provides 100GbE connectivity to the CERN research center but does not include GTS’s facility in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Deutsche Telekom said it will pay €546m for the company as part of a deal that is still subject to approval by the relevant authorities.

Deutsche Telekom board member for Europe Claudia Nemat said the acquisition will enhance the company’s pan-European services and integrated products in countries where it currently has limited fixed line access network infrastructure.

“The acquisition strengthens our ability to provide innovative pan-European cross-border telecommunications services,” Nemat said.

“Our existing mobile-centric national companies in the Czech Republic and Poland will benefit most from the added fixed-line infrastructure.”

As well as GTS’ 13,000 sq m data center portfolio covering Warsaw, Prague, Ostrava, Brno, Bratislava and Budapest, which caters to global internet content providers, country peering exchanges and multi-national companies and carriers, Deutsche Telekom will gain access to GTS’ service portfolio.

GTS saw revenues of €347m in 2012 and EBITA of €87m pro-forma, which excluded its Slovakian assets.

The Deutsche Telekom group generated revenues of €58.2bn in the 2012 financial year and more than half of this came from its operations outside of Germany.

Meanwhile, Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems is getting ready to open what it said will be Germany’s largest data center in Saxony-Anhalt, which will open in 2014.

The facility will cover 150,000 sq m once complete.