All Spain articles
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Products & ServicesTelefónica 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…
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Products & ServicesOrange 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…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica is starting to ramp up return from home security sideline
Telco’s property monitoring venture with Prosegur boosts profitability in Q1, aided by ongoing user growth, increased focus on client value, and tight managerial control of cash inflows and outflows at arms-length joint business. Other telcos have started to take notice of the JV’s momentum…
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Partnerships & AlliancesTelefónica forges Spanish defence ties with Sateliot
State-backed providers agree to integrate their terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks to develop new defence and security solutions, adding to Spanish government’s web of sovereign technology interests…
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InnovationTelefónica tests out real-time call translation
Group is exploring a move into network-based translation and transcription as part of new-wave innovation programme centring on 5G SA and AI.
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Network & InfraTelefónica eyes new markets for edge infra
Group indicates it is working on new edge hub deployments beyond flagship buildout project in Spain. Move forms part of ongoing growth bet on low-latency, AI-infused B2B services.
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Analyst BriefingDeutsche Telekomwatch: re-platforming plans
Analyst Briefing: With Europe continuing the flounder, DT is said to be prepping a major M&A move to strengthen its foothold in America and tightening links with state-side tech partners. In Europe DT ups its data sovereignty credentials with a revamped business cloud service and unveils what it calls a ‘blueprint’ for telco cloud deployments…
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M&AOrange gets Spanish green light to absorb MásOrange
Spanish government said to follow EC in allowing Orange to absorb local joint venture, ahead of June target for completion. Move sees French operator clear another barrier to consolidation of Spanish telco major and realisation of accompanying ambitions for growth.
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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch: shrinking to grow
Analyst Briefing: Round-up of developments at Spanish incumbent, as the exec team firms up a seventh Hispam country exit in pursuit of Transform & Grow strategic uplift. Read more…
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Network & InfraTelco cloud blueprint: DT’s HTC takes control of network stack, sets terms for vendors
Deep dive: after quietly rebuilding its network core from the ground up on its own terms, Deutsche Telekom is now asking the rest of the industry to follow its Horizontal TelCo Cloud lead. But with rivals pursuing their own visions, the question of who truly leads the field is far from settled.
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Partnerships & AlliancesTelefónica and Indra said to eye Tess-style cyberdefence alliance
Further signals emerge that the two minority-state-owned groups are coming closer into alignment as telco and defence tech converges and the Madrid seeks to build up the country’s industrial and military might.
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M&AOrange nets EU clearance to absorb MásOrange
Regulatory approval of the €4.25bn deal was clearly a perfunctory affair, and will give back Orange full control of its Spanish operations.
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Venturing & InvestmentsSpain’s Sateliot launches €100m fundraise to ‘accelerate’ satellite rollout
Sateliot kicks off Series-C round, seeking fresh funding to accelerate satellite deployment programme and enable the launch of ‘sovereign’ commercial NB-IoT services later this year…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica eyes more areas to chop spend, concoct cash flow
FY25: After spending much of last year stewing over the ingredients of its new Transform & Grow revival plan, Telefónica indicates it is now ready to begin cooking. The five-year programme looks set to kick off with some substantial wins on opex savings and capital intensity.
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Partnerships & AlliancesTelefónica Tech taps CrowdStrike to give SOCs an AI upgrade
Operator adopts CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI AgentWorks platform to help automate cybersecurity responses at Security Operations Centres. The partnership aligns with broader plans to invest more heavily in cybersecurity to drive B2B growth…
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Network & InfraINWIT fights back as anchor tenants threaten to dismantle Italian towerco business model
In-depth: Towers showdown erupts in Italy as Fastweb + Vodafone looks to pull out of its INWIT MSA and is met by ‘conflict’ accusations and a legal response. With Vodafone still exposed indirectly, and peers observing with interest, Europe’s once-staid infra sector continues to reset…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica FY25 spend: Group eyes ‘big year’ on savings
With building blocks now in place for much of Telefónica’s multi-billion-euro ‘totex’ reduction plan, execs promise ‘significant’ progress on savings drive in FY26…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica FY25 guidance: cutting towards growth
Telefónica’s progress on spend efficiency enables execs to lay out a faster-than-anticipated uptick in free cash flow during FY26…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica FY25 in-depth: Transform & Grow to-do list remains long
Group maintains growth across FY25, but underneath headline numbers reports another mixed performance across ‘core’ quad of European OBs and Vivo, with Brazil and Spain in growth but Germany and UK searching for revival.
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Partnerships & AlliancesTelefónica Tech adds Spanish trio to growing quantum ecosystem
Operator brings Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, QCentroid, and Multiverse Computing into the quantum computing fold, with a view to accelerate time-to-market, optimise processes, and streamline operations for enterprise customers.