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Brazil Telecoms News
Venturing & Investments
Wayra backs Brazilian e‑learning startup Alicerce Educação
Startup accelerator Wayra highlights investment in one of local operating business Vivo’s targeted growth areas. Capital will go towards tackling educational divide in Brazil, including via recent strategic tie-up.
PeopleLatest Telefónica people moves: Global Solutions settles; Open Future rings the changes
Spanish Open Future leadership rotates with Global and Madrid Heads named. Telefónica Global Solutions beds in. Leadership named for Vivo’s personal finance endeavour.
- Public Affairs
Brazil’s telcos don’t play ball with US Clean Network plan
Mobile network operators refuse to meet senior US official to discuss exclusion of Huawei’s 5G kit. Telefónica’s snub at odds with Group, an apparent supporter of the Clean Network initiative.
- Strategy & Change
Telefónica bulks up cybersecurity unit with Brazilian assets
Group further sharpens its focus on security services.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Systems Solutions: Wind River trumpets T-Sys tie-up
Wind River flags campus network engagement and joins re‑branded Open Infrastructure Foundation; T‑Systems on lookout for partnerships in Brazil.
- People
Telefónica moves: strategy and restructuring mean changes across all markets
Telefónica Global Solutions beds in. Swaps in all Core Markets. Changes made across Telefónica Hispam footprint.
- Venturing & Investments
Telefónica plants cash in Brazilian IoT player
Agro-IoT Lab graduate lands cash injection. Opportunities in the mining sector driving Telefónica IoT investments in Latin America.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Telefónica’s core markets: Nokia and Juniper pick up gigs
Vivo into loans; Juniper picked for 5G backhaul security; Nokia wins UK SDM.
- People
Telefónica people moves: new cloud ops and Movistar+ leads
Joaquin Cidoncha Puebla takes Tech & Cloud Operations Director spot. Movistar+ pay‑TV proposition casts new lead in the form of Francisco Menéndez.
- People
Telefónica movers: Wayra Brasil seeks digital partners; O2 UK’s Gilson leaves for Three
Guilherme Amorim takes Head of Partnerships spot at Wayra Brasil. O2 UK network-sharing project manager Gilson to run Three’s RAN. Movistar Chile names a new Director of Digital Transformation.
- Strategy & Change
Amdocs, Netcracker flag new Vivo contracts
Amdocs and Netcracker dig in deeper as part of ongoing work to upgrade Telefónica|Vivo’s systems.
- Public Affairs
Anatel revives fines-for-investment swaps
Brazilian regulator finally agrees first Conduct Adjustment Agreement with TIM, enabling operators to swap fines for investment commitments.
- M&A
Vivo and co. secure stalking horse status on Oi
As the collective preferred buyer, Vivo, TIM, and Claro are confident they are in a position to outbid any rival interest in Oi’s mobile business. With a €2.6bn offer on the table, Vivo is highlighting the boost in investment in ultrafast networks that would be enabled by Oi’s windfall ...
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Telefónica's core markets: Ezentis bags Brazil contract; Atos in Spain
Ezentis and Tech Mahindra in key support roles, O2 UK introduces Bubl.
- People
Telefónica moves: cyber security remains a focus
Cybersecurity spin‑off ElevenPaths brings in H2020 lead Granadino for investment roadmap. O2 UK’s Suvo Datta gets called up to WM5G, leading the growing regional hub’s finance strategy.
- Financial & Performance
Spending: Capex peaks and operational efficiencies rise
Management assures infrastructure investment will be maintained, as key in post-COVID‑19 world. Customer experience another priority area. Other projects being reined in to free up funds, though, with Abosolo stressing “strict screening” of spend plans
- Financial & Performance
Telefónica core markets: glimmers of a return to normality
Group’s key business engines report a mixed set of results, but with signs of recovery emerging over the course of Q2.
- Financial & Performance
Financial highlights: generating cash and cutting costs
Telefónica’s numbers for the quarter to 30 June 2020 (Q2 FY20) made grim reading.
- M&A
Vivo and co seek exclusivity as Oi measures up suitors
Vivo, TIM, and Claro back in the driving seat on Oi assets acquisition as exclusive talks resume. Oi rejects proposals from private equity‑funded infrastructure provider Highline. Vivo could bolster its weak north‑east base. TIM may have most at stake in bidding, with speculation it would take the lion’s share ...
- M&A
Telefónica drops AxisMed
Group offloads care management specialist to Atrys Health. A pivot from ‘provider’ to ‘partner’ in Telefónica’s healthcare strategy.
- Strategy & Change
Vivo to generate its own renewable energy
Opportunities for cost‑savings are driving Vivo to get more hands‑on with adoption of localised renewable energy sources. Twenty‑year contract commitments from the operator said to be enabling innovative energy provider projects.
- People
Key movers in Telefónica: Rob Reason in at O2 UK; Wayra rejig starts in earnest
O2 UK heads swap seats, including a Macdonald‑Dunford exchange with Now TV. Serial Brazilian telco leader Marcelo Campos moves from Claro to Vivo. Brando and Rotondo stake a claim at Wayra’s evolving South American top‑table. M2M solution provider Pangea pulls in another O2 name.
