All Telefónica Group articles – Page 2
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Partnerships & AlliancesSpain: 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…
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Strategy & ChangeTelefónica 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.
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M&ABrazil’s Vivo eyes Oi enterprise unit — report
Vivo reportedly keen on hoovering up further Oi assets, helping to advance M&A-fuelled enterprise expansion. Divestment could mark the latest move in Oi’s long-running asset sell-off process…
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Network & InfraSensing opportunity (and risk): will ISAC drive or drain next-gen network RoI?
Analysis: Telcos are exploring how a combination of growing military spend and the emergence of new integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capabilities could generate new revenue growth opportunities, particularly around applications such as drone detection. But will operators be able to balance demand for high-performance solutions from the armed forces with their own commercial economics?
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Network & InfraGermany’s O2 advances cloud push as Mavenir IMS migration begins
Telefónica OB shifts first 100,000 mobile customers onto new cloud-based IMS system, with process to accelerate over the next two years. Move sees telco advance cloudification push in which Mavenir remains a key technology partner…
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Network & InfraVM O2 says AI and digital twin are solving fixed network faults faster
UK operator is reducing its fixed network back‑office workload and speeding fault resolution through automated decisioning, having revamped its data architecture to support quicker insight and action…
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PeoplewatchTelefónica 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.
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Network & InfraBrazil’s Vivo lands another major IoT win with agri group São Martinho
Operator bags another large-scale IoT contract to supply connectivity to Brazilian sugarcane processor. CEO Christian Gebara eyes possible AI and big data opportunities, while using deal as an example of “accelerating demand” for growing B2B digital services ecosystem.
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Financial & PerformanceBrazil’s Vivo calls on AI to aid fight with inflation
Chief Executive Christian Gebara surveys “vast number of opportunities” from AI tech, including an upcoming major customer support revamp, as operator seeks to restrict inflation impact on margin.
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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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Network & InfraGermany’s O2 lays out data centre expansion plan
Telefónica’s German unit outlines data centre construction plan, moving to expand its footprint after a series of recent upgrades at existing facilities. Plans unveiled alongside revamped data centre services portfolio, seeing O2 continue to contribute to the Group’s ‘sovereign’ infra play…
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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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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch: widening telcos’ vocal range
Analyst Briefing: Round-up of developments at Spanish incumbent, including AI-focused innovation around voice services, and infrastructure developments in Spain, Germany, and the UK. Read more…
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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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Products & ServicesLiberty eyes ‘premium’ B2B connectivity play to monetise network slicing
FutureNet World: Liberty Global seeks to bring network slicing to market as part of ‘premium’ connectivity and managed service offerings, joining peers moving to commercialise the technology…
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InterviewChelot: wholesale scale is ‘mission impossible’ without nexfibre-Netomnia deal
Interview: “I have a wholesale platform, but I have no wholesale customers”. Jeremy Chelot’s Netomnia hit a structural ceiling, with bowing out the only way to progress the Openreach challenge. Firing back at nexfibre deal critics, he asks for alternatives to his Plan B, deeming consolidation the best route and reflecting on the challenge of leading a business through a sale.
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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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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.