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Telefónica
, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company with registered office and headquarters located in two different places, both in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. It provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadband, and subscription television, operating in Europe and the Americas. As well as the brand, it also trades as Movistar, O2, and Vivo. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. On 15 April 2012, Telefónica shut down TVA and Ajacto, which unified the brand into Vivo. History The company was created in Madrid in 1924 as Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España (CTNE) with ITT as one of its major shareholders. In 1945, the state acquired by law a share of 79.6% of the company. This stake was diluted by a capital increase in 1967. Until the liberalization of the telecom market in 1997, Telefónica was the only telephone operator in Spain. It still h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O2 (brand)
O2 (typeset as O2) is a global brand name owned by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica. The company uses the O2 brand for its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Germany. Since 2018, it is also used as an online-only flanker brand in Spain. Formerly, all European branches of Telefónica were managed by Telefónica Europe plc, a broadband Internet access, broadband and telecommunications company. The company originated as a collection of worldwide telecommunications companies, known in the later half of the 1990s as BT Wireless, and a global mobile data business known then as Genie Internet, both subsidiaries of BT Group, British Telecommunications (British Telecom or BT). As part of a reorganisation of Telefónica in 2014, Telefónica Europe's holdings and operations became direct subsidiaries of its parent: Telefónica S.A. Telefónica Europe provided mobile telephony operations in the United Kingdom and Germany, and licensed its brand to former operations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telefónica Germany
Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG (; also called Telefónica Deutschland ) is a provider of broadband, landline and mobile telecommunications in Germany. The company trades as O2 (typeset as O2). The company was renamed from Telefónica O2 Germany to Telefónica Germany on 1 April 2011 following the completion of a merger with HanseNet. Telefónica Germany purchased E-Plus on 1 October 2014, unifying the business under O2 brand on 3 February 2016. Telefónica Germany's main competitors are 1&1 Mobilfunk, Telekom Deutschland (Deutsche Telekom's German private customer unit) and Vodafone. History Telefónica Germany was founded in 1995 as Viag Interkom, as a joint venture between British Telecommunications (45%), VIAG (45%) and Telenor (10%). Viag Interkom was awarded Germany's second GSM-1800 (also known as E-Netz ( de; ''lit. E-Network'' in Germany) license in February 1997 and began operations on 1 February 1998 in eight cities. In 2001, BT acquired VIAGs rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movistar
Movistar () is a major telecommunications provider owned by Telefónica, operating in Spain and Hispanic American countries. It is the largest provider of landline, broadband, Mobile telephony, mobile services, and pay television (Movistar Plus+) in Spain. Movistar is the List of mobile network operators of the Americas#Mexico, second-largest wireless carrier in Mexico, with 25.8 million subscribers as of January 2020. History The Movistar brand has been in use in Spain since the launch of GSM services in 1995. The name became effective worldwide on April 5, 2005, after Telefónica purchased the BellSouth mobile operations branch in South America. After the purchase of O2 (brand), O2 in 2005 by Telefónica, the company announced that the «O2» brand would continue to be used in the United Kingdom and Germany, as a separate branch with its own board and management structure. Since 2011, Telefónica has sponsored a UCI ProTeam squad in cycling under the name of . Countries wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telxius
Telxius Telecom S.A. is a global telecommunications infrastructure company created in 2016, owned by Telefónica Infra, a subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica. History On February 21, 2017, Telefónica announced an agreement reached with KKR for the sale of up to 40% of Telxius, for a total amount of 1,275 million euros; 12.75 euros per share. In 2018, BRUSA, a new maritime cable of almost 11,000 kilometers that connects Brazil, Puerto Rico and the US, started operating; as well as MAREA, a cable that connects the United States and Europe in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook. On July 27, 2019, Telefónica reached an agreement with Pontegadea, investment vehicle of Amancio Ortega, for the sale of 9.99% of Telxius for a total amount of 378.8 million euros. The transaction involves a price of 15.2 euros per Telxius share. In 2021, Telefonica agreed to sell the European and Latin American tower divisions of Telxius to American Tower, comprisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telefónica Building
The Telefónica Building, in Spanish ''Edificio Telefónica'', is a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, which serves as the registered office of the namesake telecommunications company. It is located in Gran Via 28. At the time of construction it was the tallest European skyscraper with 89 m of roof height, until in 1940, when the Terrazza Martini Tower opened in Genoa. History The Telefónica Building was designed by Ignacio de Cárdenas, who conceived it after a previous study of Louis S. Weeks in Manhattan. Even though the building is of American inspiration, Cárdenas touch can be felt in its churrigueresque exterior ornamentation, a nod to Madrid Baroque architecture. Its construction started in 1926 and it was fully completed in March 1929, despite opening its doors officially on 1 January 1930. The workforce was composed of more than 1000 workers and the final cost added up to 32 million pesetas. It became one of the first skyscrapers in Europe. It also held the Madrid h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distrito Telefónica
Distrito Telefónica is the headquarters of the Spanish telecom company Telefónica, S.A. in Las Tablas, a neighborhood in the Fuencarral-El Pardo district of Madrid, Spain, accessible from the A-1 "Autovía del Norte" and the M-40 ring road. The complex was known as ''Distrito C'' or ''Distrito de las Comunicaciones'' ("Communications District") until 2011. Design The project was designed by Rafael de La-Hoz. It was built in 36 months on 370,000 square metres in Las Tablas, a growing area between Madrid and Alcobendas. This project has been acknowledged several times, due to the management of its Madrid Metro station ( ''Ronda de la Comunicación'' on Line 10) and the different roads. The buildings cover 140,000 square meters and they were, at the time, the largest project in Europe in terms of glass, even more so than the ones of Ciudad Financiera del Banco Santander Banco Santander S.A. trading as Santander Group ( , , ), is a Spanish multinational financial services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivo (telecommunications Company)
Vivo ( Portuguese for 'Live', as in Live Broadcasting, or 'Alive'), known as Vivo Brazil, is a brand of Telefônica Brasil, a subsidiary of Telefónica and the largest telecommunications company in Brazil. It is headquartered in the Brooklin Novo neighborhood of São Paulo. History The company was originally formed as part of Telebrás, the state-owned telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged and privatized. Telefónica bought Telesp, the São Paulo division, and rebranded it to Telefónica. On 15 April 2012, all Telefónica services were rebranded again to Vivo, using the same strategy of unifying all its services in a unique brand, like Movistar (Hispanic America and Spain) and O2 (rest of Europe). Merged companies The following operators merged to form Vivo: ''Owned by Telefónica'' *Telefónica Celular (Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul) *Telebahia Celular ( Bahia) *Telergipe Celular ( Sergipe) * Telesp Landline (São Paulo) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mobile Network Operators
For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes. Terrestrial This is a list of the world's 25 largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions. Satellite based This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscribers. See also * General ** Comparison of mobile phone standards * Operators ** List of mobile network operators in Europe ** List of mobile network operators in Asia and Oceania ** List of mobile network operators in the Middle East and Africa ** List of mobile network operators of the Americas * Country lists ** List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions ** List of countries by number of Internet users ** List of countries by number of telephone lines in use ** List of countries by smartphone penetration ** List of multiple-system operators * List of telecommunications companies This list identifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Murtra
Marc Thomas Murtra Millar (born 1972), better known as Marc Murtra, is a Spanish engineer and businessman. Since January 2025, he has been the executive Chairman of Telefónica. From 2021 to 2025 he was President of Indra Sistemas. He is also a board member of Fundació Bancaria "la Caixa" and independent conselor of Ebro Foods, S.A. Biography The son of a cardiothoracic surgeon, he was born and raised in Blackburn, England. He moved to Barcelona and studied industrial engineering and specialized in Machine Mechanics at Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Afterwards, he completed his studies with an MBA in New York, at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he learned from economists such as Paul Krugman and Paul Samuelson, among others. He started working as a nuclear industry engineer at British Nuclear Fuels Ltd in the UK, and continued as a strategy consultant at DiamondCluster, where he worked for large technology companies. In 2003 he was appointed direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Media O2
VMED O2 UK Limited, trading as Virgin Media O2, is a British mass media and telecommunications company based in Reading, England. The company was formed in June 2021 as a 50–50 joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica through the merger of their respective Virgin Media Virgin Media Limited is a British telecommunications company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are at Green Park in Reading, England. It is owned by Virgin Media O2, a 50:50 ... and O2 UK businesses. O2 UK is focused on mobile phone telecommunications, and Virgin Media is focused on broadband internet, set-top boxes and landline services. History In October 2021, the company introduced its joint venture 'Volt' package for customers who have an O2 Pay Monthly plan with Virgin Media broadband. On 24 July 2023, it was announced that Virgin Media O2 was cutting up to 2,000 members of staff by the end of 2023. In Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Telephone Operating Companies
This list identifies the largest telecommunications companies by total revenue. For a more thorough list, see the By region section. By total revenue ''Note: Numbers of total revenues of most telephone operating companies are sourced from Forbes or MarketScreener. When $USD revenues unavailable from reliable sites, currency conversions for 2019-2022 revenues are based on the closing currency exchange rate on the last day of 2019-2022 (December 31).'' By region * List of telecommunications companies in the Americas * List of telecommunications companies in Asia and Oceania * List of telecommunications companies in Europe * List of telecommunications companies in the Middle East and Africa See also * Telecommunications company * ITU-T * Landline * List of mobile network operators ** List of mobile network operators of the Americas ** List of mobile network operators in Asia and Oceania ** List of mobile network operators in Europe ** List of mobile network operato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
