Telefónica

Telefónica
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	ES0178430E18
founding	1924
Seat	Madrid , Spain
management	José María Álvarez-Pallete
Number of employees	121,853
sales	48.42 billion euros (2019)
Branch	telecommunications
Website	www.telefonica.com
	As of December 31, 2019

Telefónica headquarters ( Madrid ).

Telefónica telephone pillar in Madrid

Historical logo

Telefónica SA (formerly Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España ) is a Spanish listed telecommunications company ( Madrid Stock Exchange : TEF.MC).

Telefónica is mainly active in Europe and the predominantly still fast growing markets of Latin America . The group is the market leader in its home market in Spain and in Latin America and operates under the Movistar , Vivo and O ₂ brands . Group companies include Telefónica Europe , the Internet portals Terra Networks and Lycos, and the call center operator Atento . Telefónica has a worldwide network. Telefónica Germany maintains an area-wide, around 40,000 km long backbone with 329 dial-in nodes .

Acquisitions

The Bertelsmann subsidiary mediaWays , a German internet and network service provider, was acquired by Telefónica in March 2001 for 1.6 billion US dollars. Three years later, in March, Telefónica took over BellSouth's Latin American mobile communications business for 4.72 billion euros (5.85 billion US dollars). In February 2005, Telefónica absorbed its Internet subsidiary Terra- Lycos. In April of the same year it took over 51 percent of the Czech company Český Telecom for EUR 2.75 billion. In 2005/2006, the British telephone company O₂ was taken over for the equivalent of 26 billion euros. Telefónica thus replaced Deutsche Telekom as the second largest mobile communications provider after Vodafone in Europe . Telefónica reintegrated its listed mobile communications division Telefónica Móviles . The costs amounted to 3.5 billion euros. April 2006 Telefónica took over half of the shares plus one in the Colombian "Telecom". According to official information from Bogotá, Telefónica paid the equivalent of 309 million euros for the share package. Telefónica is working in a joint venture with the Portuguese company Portugal Telecom in the mobile communications provider Vivo in Latin America. Jajah was bought at the end of 2009 by the telecommunications group Telefónica for the sum of 145 million euros.

In Germany there were also takeovers of Telefónica, which operates as Telefónica Deutschland Holding . In February 2010, Telefónica-O₂ took over Alice ( HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH) for EUR 900 million. In July 2013 Telefónica announced the planned takeover of the KPN subsidiary E-Plus . The merger of E-Plus and O₂ on October 1, 2014 created the largest German mobile operator. The network will be merged to provide a denser UMTS network (since April 1, 2015 and currently through national roaming) and 90% LTE for the population.

Sales

In April 2007, Telefónica sold the British subsidiary Airwave, an operator of closed radio networks for the British police, fire brigade and rescue services, for three billion euros to two infrastructure funds of the Australian financial investor Macquarie . At the time, around 220,000 users were calling via the Airwave network.

In July 2014, Hutchison Whampoa took over the national company Telefónica Ireland Limited after thorough examination and approval by the EU and renamed it Three on March 2, 2015 .

Cellular

The cellphone subsidiary of the group is called Telefónica Móviles. Telefónica Europe (formerly O₂ plc) has also been part of this since January 23, 2006 . With over 100 million customers worldwide, Telefónica Móviles is the fourth largest mobile communications company in the world after China Mobile , Vodafone Group and China Unicom .

As the largest mobile operator in Spain and Latin America , Telefónica is pursuing an expansive strategy in the mobile communications sector, combined with the acquisition of numerous smaller providers, especially in Latin America.

Telefónica Deutschland Holding

The Telefónica Germany AG is part of Telefónica Europe and operates under the brand O ₂ . The company has 5000 employees and is managed by Markus Haas. The company is based in Munich. Since the acquisition and merger of E-Plus , a former subsidiary of KPN , the company has continued to operate under the name O ₂ and numerous subsidiary and partner brands.

Telefónica Deutschland is a provider of communications and Internet services on the wholesale market for other Internet service providers (ISPs) and carriers . It operates a large Internet backbone network and three mainframe data centers in Gütersloh , Frankfurt am Main and Munich . In the Next Generation Network (NGN) with a length of over 40,000 kilometers, 325 Points of Presence (PoP), over 2,200 DSL transfer points, are operated.

Telefónica Deutschland is a provider of Internet services that consistently implements the “All over IP” strategy with VoIP and ADSL2 + . As an infrastructure provider, it positions itself on the wholesale market with VoIP and DSL wholesale products. Today, Telefónica reaches 60% of German households with ADSL2 + infrastructure, which is sold exclusively by large ISPs .

In August 2009, large parts of Telefónica Deutschland GmbH were spun off into Telefónica Deutschland Access GmbH, the latter was merged with Telefónica O ₂ Germany GmbH & Co. OHG in the same month . On October 8, 2010, Telefónica O ₂ Germany announced that around 1,100 jobs will be cut in the course of the takeover of HanseNet . In addition, the location in Verl and the offices in Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig and Stuttgart were closed.

Holdings

Together with the Finnish Sonera (now Telia Company ), Telefónica was involved in Group 3G, which had acquired a UMTS license in Germany in August 2000 and entered the market with the provider Quam .

Litigation

In July 2014, Telefónica was sentenced to a fine of 152 million euros by the European Court of Justice for a violation of EU competition law .

Web links

Commons : Telefónica - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Annual Report 2019. (PDF) In: telefonica.com. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
↑ O2 buys E-Plus , n-tv.de from July 23, 2013.
↑ Mega-Fusion: Telefonica buys E-Plus ( Memento from July 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Reuters message on derstandard.at from July 23, 2013.
↑ Munich District Court, file number HRB 180277, announced on July 15, 2009, 12:00 p.m.
↑ Press releases from October 8, 2010: O2 and HanseNet become an integrated telecommunications company
↑ Telefónica has to pay 152 million , in: Handelsblatt , No. 131 of 11./12./13. July 2014, p. 22.

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[AR_19-1] Annual Report 2019. (PDF) In: telefonica.com. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .

[2] O2 buys E-Plus , n-tv.de from July 23, 2013.

[3] Mega-Fusion: Telefonica buys E-Plus ( Memento from July 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Reuters message on derstandard.at from July 23, 2013.

[4] Munich District Court, file number HRB 180277, announced on July 15, 2009, 12:00 p.m.

[5] Press releases from October 8, 2010: O2 and HanseNet become an integrated telecommunications company

[6] Telefónica has to pay 152 million , in: Handelsblatt , No. 131 of 11./12./13. July 2014, p. 22.