Deutsche Telekom is abandoning its cloud gaming offer which it launched commercially in August 2020, having run the offer in beta mode for a year first.

It made this online announcement to its gaming community (translated from German)

It is probably no coincidence that Deutsche Telekom's announcement that it intends to stick to its knitting – providing the network not content – appeared 10 days after Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard, one of the largest video game publishers, for $69 billion.

If the deal goes through, it will be Microsoft's biggest acqusition. It will also make Microsoft the third largest gaming company on the planet measured by revenue.

US operators – especially AT&T – and the UK's BT and Italy's TIM, among others, have also come to the same conclusion about the role of operators, in some cases learning very expensive lessons.