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All the latest key telecoms and digital infra insight, news and analysis from Spain.
M&A
Infra is back: Telefónica re-acquires Spanish microwave assets
Group strikes deal to purchase domestic microwave assets from Asterion Industrial Partners, having only sold them six years ago. Execs indicate acquisition aids strategy to “rigorously strengthen control” of infra and improve network resilience in fast-changing world…
Partnerships & Alliances
Spain: Telefónica lands role as Google Cloud’s compliance lookout
Telefónica becomes “trusted sovereignty partner” for Google Cloud in Spain, with plans to ensure the hyperscaler remains compliant with Spanish data sovereignty requirements. Partnership builds on existing relationship in other technological areas…
Strategy & Change
From danger zone to digital powerhouse: Kearney maps Europe’s path to telecom recovery
Analysis: Europe’s telecoms sector has built extensively but failed to monetise, risking stagnation without urgent structural intervention. Kearney’s comprehensive diagnostic guides on how regionalisation, network resilience, strategic private finance partnerships, and other remedies can revitalise the sector’s finances and the continent’s digital economy.
Partnerships & Alliances
Sateliot ties with Telenor in latest prep for IoT services launch
Spain’s Sateliot and Norway’s Telenor form ‘strategic’ partnership to meld terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks for IoT applications. Tie-up follows series of other recent endeavours between Sateliot and European telcos, as it gears up for commercial services launch…
Strategy & Change
Telefónica rebrands security unit to reflect defence expansion push
Group implements a defence-focused rebrand at European security division, sending further signals of expansion plans in the sector as other telcos on the continent follow suit.
Peoplewatch
Telefónica Peoplewatch: Hispam chief’s TV switch
April 2026–May 2026 update: Leadership reshuffling continues at transitioning Telefónica as the operator’s Hispam chief reportedly transfers to lead Spanish pay-TV business Movistar Plus+. Senior IT moves are made at Telefónica|Vivo and Virgin Media O2 as operating businesses’ arrow in on AI. The Group also installs a new friendly boardroom member at Brazil’s Vivo.
B2B
Orange beefs up cyberdefence business with Spanish expansion
French operator continues to bet on security and sovereignty as a path to B2B revival, in turbulent times, with the opening of new cybersecurity hubs in Barcelona and Madrid. The move also sees Orange continuing to build closer links with soon-to-be-consolidated Spanish business MásOrange.
Strategy & Change
Arch-disruptor Digi teases UK landfall — is £15 fibre here to stay?
In depth: expansive Romanian telco disruptor teases ultra-low pricing that has shaken up EU markets and now threatens to redraw UK fibre market’s economics and put further pressure on already fragile altnet ARPU… next stop mobile?
Peoplewatch
Orange Peoplewatch: Belgian C-suite shake-up rolls on with new CIO
Latest 20+ senior and strategic leadership changes at Orange, including another appointment as part of a C-suite overhaul in Belgium, the recruitment of fresh domestic network leadership, and the Group’s former France boss moving to oversee a national fibre challenger…
Products & Services
Telefónica expands sovereignty push with ‘data space’ platform
Telefónica Tech throws DataSphere into the mix of its expanding B2B, ‘sovereign’ services portfolio. Platform aims to help businesses ensure shared data remains secure, building on prior work to develop data spaces across Europe…
Products & Services
Orange intensifies Spain’s edge competition with fresh enterprise platform
Orange goes live with new 5G private networks and edge computing platform in Spain. Move sees the telco position itself to better compete with Spanish rivals at the edge, while further bulking up enterprise portfolio to advance Group’s strategic goals…