Let me add that Freenet made several competing offers for AOL Germany over the weekend but the AOL board of directors decided that Telecom Italia put the better offer on the table.
Secondly, HanseNet's Alice DSL is limited to several large regions such as:
Berlin/Potsdam, Munich, Stuttgart/Karlsruhe, Ruhrgebiet (Essen/D?sseldorf/Dortmund/Bielefeld/Duisburg/M?lheim a.d. Ruhr/Hagen/Witten), Rostock und - and very recently - Hannover.
Their model/spokesperson is the Italian model Vanessa Hessler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Hessler