Latest Telefónica News – Page 17
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Partnerships & Alliances
Astrocast locks in Airbus for future satellite IoT upgrades
Satellite startup Astrocast renews deal with longstanding partner Airbus to upgrade satellite-based IoT services.
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Products & Services
Virgin Media O2 data shows commuters feeling the heat
Virgin Media O2 Business releases latest Movers Index, showing consumers cutting back on expenses and hybrid working growing in popularity, amid inflation and climate fears.
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Partnerships & Alliances
NAGRA helps Telefónica ward off LatAm pirates
Decade-long regional TV partnership gets a content protection-focused update.
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M&A
Telefónica puts Nabiax stake 'up for sale'
Report from Reuters indicates Asterion has appointed banks to explore divestment of Nabiax, potentially including Telefónica’s remaining 20% stake. Speculation closely follows sale of Nabiax’s Americas portfolio, marking a shift of focus onto Spanish market.
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Public Affairs
Telefónica calls for fresh infra-sharing regulation in LatAm
Operator calls for regulatory rework to promote infrastructure sharing in Latin America.
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Venturing & Investments
UK Infrastructure Bank bulks up nexfibre with £250m
UK Infrastructure Bank supplies nexfibre with new debt financing to boost fibre deployment.
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Marketing
Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica want more time to resolve ‘T’ logo dispute
Duo asks European Union Intellectual Property Office for six-month extension to resolve differences.
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Public Affairs
Ofcom prods Virgin Media O2 over customer cancellation struggles
Ofcom launches investigation into Virgin Media O2 after customers report service cancellation difficulties.
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Telefónica Tech bolsters security offers with F5 and IBM
Partnerships expand cybersecurity capabilities in Spain and UK.
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Operations
Telefónica Tech merges biz units in major reorg
Cybersecurity & Cloud division is now combined with IoT & Big Data unit to create unified portfolio for Group’s B2B customers. Top management stays on board with different areas of responsibility.
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Telefónica closes in on hyperscaler-backed API platform
Report indicates Group has finalised agreements with AWS, Microsoft, and Vonage to distribute APIs to developer community.
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VM O2 accelerates data insights with Google Cloud
Progress update on JV’s ambition to become a “data‑driven business”.
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M&A
Entel, Telefónica prep Peruvian fibre JV with KKR
Operators hand over fibre assets to KKR to create ON*NET Fibra Peru.
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Network & Infrastructure
Asterion builds FibreCo challenger to Telefónica in Spain
Olin Group’s portfolio now includes ten regional operators, with collective fibre footprint of 1.6 million premises. FibreCo newcomer plans to open up more than half of its fibre network to third-party operators in 2023. Spain’s saturated fibre sector appears ripe for further consilidation.
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Telefónica ties with Microsoft on enterprise UC tools
Partners launch joint portfolio of unified communication solutions, focused on SMEs and large organisations.
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Telefónica Tech expands The ThinX IoT lab…
Double the size and twice as many people for testing Internet of Things apps.
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Spain to fill in 5G gaps with new EU funding
The European Commission approves multimillion-euro scheme to support 5G infrastructure rollout to rural Spain.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vivo agrees solar energy deal with Brookfield in Brazil
Partnership will help power Telefónica’s operations.