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Monday, 31 july 2017

“Telefónica has one of the most ambitious and forward-looking programmes of network virtualization in the telco industry”, claims paper by Analysys Mason

Madrid, July 31, 2017.- Analysys Mason , the global consultancy and research firm specialized in telecoms, has just released a white paper commissioned by Telefónica that summarises the...

Thursday, 27 july 2017

Telefónica's net profit increases 28.9% and reaches 1,600 million euros in the first half of the year

Highlights: The company upgrades guidance and reiterates the dividend announcement for 2017. The second quarter of 2017 shows a general acceleration in growth in main...

Tuesday, 25 july 2017

Ángel Vilá to be appointed new chief operating officer of Telefónica

José María Álvarez-Pallete redesigns the organizational structure of the Company Madrid, July 25, 2017 – In the context of continuing transformation, the executive chairman of ...

Wednesday, 28 june 2017

Data Transparency Lab announces the projects granted with €50,000 revolving data transparency online

Grantees will present their projects during the 4th edition of Data Transparency Lab which will take place at Telefónica Barcelona in November Barcelona June 28 th , 2017.-  ...

Thursday, 15 june 2017

Telefónica and Huawei to launch NB-IoT Open Lab to boost the Internet of Things

The NB-IoT Open Lab consists of a co-working  space for partners in Telefónica Chile’s R&D Centre as well as a showroom of the solutions in Telefónica´s headquarters  in...

Wednesday, 14 june 2017

Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar announces iAltitude, Vilynx and Spinn Technologies as winners of the international technological startup competition

The three startups presented their solutions to Rafa Nadal and are to develop them with the goal of improving athletes' performance. More than 160 projects from Asia, Europe, North...

Friday, 9 june 2017

Telefónica General Shareholders’ Meeting approves the distribution of a cash dividend of 0.40 euro per share for 2017

José María Álvarez-Pallete, executive chairman of Telefónica: "2016 has been a year of challenges and difficult decisions, but above all it has been a year of great success. A year that has...

Thursday, 8 june 2017

Telefónica and ACCIONA sign agreement for renewable electricity supply in 2018

ACCIONA will provide 71.6% of the telecommunications company's high-tension remote-metered power consumption in Spain in 2018, a total of 430 GWh. Telefónica takes another step to...

Thursday, 8 june 2017

Telefónica and Huawei awarded for leading work defining future 5G networks

Madrid, June 8, 2017.- Telefónica and Huawei won the 5G “Infrastructure Service Innovation” award for innovation and testing on “CloudRAN based 5G UCNC (user-centric no-cell) Network” at the...

Wednesday, 7 june 2017

Telefónica contributes 1.8% to the Spanish GDP and pays 22 euros in taxes for every 100 in revenues

  50% of the variable remuneration of Telefónica’s employees is directly related to different customer metrics, the priority of the company, which stands at number one within the...

Friday, 2 june 2017

Telefónica doubles use of renewable electricity

The company accelerates its plan to be 100% renewable and joins the RE100 global initiative. Thanks to its Renewable Energy Plan, Telefónica will achieve potential savings of 6%...

Wednesday, 31 may 2017

ElevenPaths announces that its security platform complies with the new european data protection regulation one year earlier than required

The European regulation will enter into force in May 2018, when entities that do not comply can be penalized with fines of up to 4% of their annual revenues. ElevenPaths introduces...

Thursday, 18 may 2017

Telefónica joins efforts with the 5G Automotive Association

Telefónica becomes a member of the 5GAA contributing to the cross industry association efforts to boost developments in the connected and autonomous car arena   Madrid, 18 May...

Wednesday, 17 may 2017

Telefónica and Project Loon collaborate to provide emergency mobile connectivity to flooded areas of Peru

Within 72 hours, mobile internet connectivity was deployed to thousands of people in the most affected areas of the country. Telefonica and Project Loon have been in technical trials in...

Friday, 12 may 2017

Cibersecurity incident

Earlier today Telefónica detected a cibersecurity incident affecting the PC's of some employees within the company's internal corporate network. Telefónica inmediately activated the security...

Thursday, 11 may 2017

Telefónica’s net income increased by 42.2%, reaching 779 million euros in the first quarter of the year

Financial Highlights Revenues amounted to €13,132M (+5% year on year; +1.5% in organic terms), driven by service revenues (+1.7% organic growth). Mobile data revenues services was...

Tuesday, 18 april 2017

Telefónica deploys first Service Operation Centers for the intelligent management of its networks based on customer experience analysis in real time

The centres are already operating in Argentina, Chile and Germany and represent a first step towards the application of Artificial Intelligence to operations. They use analytics techniques on...

Tuesday, 4 april 2017

Telefónica and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise update operational processes with the services of Andalusian technology firm C&G IT Solutions

C&G IT Solutions, a company that was accelerated in Wayra Spain and counts among its clients large firms such as Mediamarkt, has become a benchmark in global operations management for...

Thursday, 30 march 2017

Movistar, Real Madrid “Connecting Partner”

The agreement entails the union of two major Spanish international brands The alliance, which is already in effect, will last for the remainder of the 2016-2017 season, and the next...

Monday, 27 march 2017

Data Transparency Lab Grants Program Call for Proposals 2017

Nearly 300,000€ given to projects to detect algorithmic bias and discrimination, tools for exposing location and IoT-related privacy threats. Barcelona, March 27th, 2017.- The ...