BERLIN (AFP) - German telephone company T-Mobile, who sponsor the ProTour cycling team of the same name, will decide "in the next two weeks" whether it remains in the sport, announced parent company Deutsche Telekom's communications director Christian Frommert on Monday.

"The Tour de France finished on Sunday, we would like to evaluate the developements and take a decision according to the facts. Also we are going to talk to political and sporting leaders as well as the media too," Frommert explained in a press release posted on the team's website.

"We will take all the time that is needed, we owe that to everyone, but this decision should be made in the next two weeks," said Frommert.

"Deutsche Telekom is aware of its responsibilities concerning cycling, which is shown by our commitment to clean cycling."

Founded in 1991 the team was initially called Telekom before being changed to T-Mobile in 2004.

T-Mobile has invested in the sport of professional cycling until 2010, but after team rider Patrik Sinkewitz failed a doping test for testosterone coupled with a string of doping scandals that hit the 2007 Tour de France it has prompted a re-think to their participation in the peloton.

"The Tour has maybe hit the bottom, if it is the case it presents the unique chance to start afresh and break off from the past, even though at the moment it is difficult to see what shape this revival will take and who will take it," said Frommert.

T-Mobile spends between 12 and 14 million euros per year on their cycling team.

The German sponsors were left red-faced in the summer when top former team members Bjarne Riis, Erik Zabel and Rolf Aldag all confessed to using banned blood-booster EPO (erythropoietin) while at Telekom in the 1990s.

Riis was subsequently stripped of his 1996 Tour de France title while another former Telekom rider Jan Ullrich - winner of the 1997 Tour - was sacked by T-Mobile for being implicated in the Puerto doping scandal in Spain - though he protests his innocence.