Telxius

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Telxius Telecom SA

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legal form SA
founding February 10, 2016
Seat Madrid , SpainSpainSpain 
management
  • Alberto Horcajo (Managing Director)
  • Guillermo Ansaldo (Chairman)
Branch telecommunications
Website www.telxius.com

Telxius is an international telecommunications infrastructure company founded in 2016 by the Spanish Telefónica group. Telxius has a total of 30,000 cell phone masts in five countries (Spain, Germany, Brazil, Peru and Chile) as well as a network of submarine cables that includes, for example, the SAm-1 and Marea cables .

Telxius was founded on February 10, 2016. From May there was speculation about an IPO, but this was canceled on September 30, 2016 due to insufficient demand.

On February 20, 2017, Telefónica sold 40% of Telxius to the US subsidiary KKR . The purchase price was 1.275 billion euros.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Telefónica nombra a Guillermo Ansaldo presidente de Telxius , April 1, 2016 (Spanish)
  2. Telefonica Deutschland: Mobilfunker sells transmitter masts to Telxius. In: Handelsblatt . April 22, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
  3. a b Telefónica creates Telxius, a global telecommunications infrastructure company , February 10, 2016
  4. Manuel Baigorri, Rodrigo Orihuela: Telefonica Said to Add Banks for Debt-Cutting IPO of Telxius. In: Bloomberg.com . May 23, 2016, accessed June 22, 2016 .
  5. Telefonica: Cancellation of Telxius IPO causes shares to crash. In: Handelsblatt . September 30, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  6. Telefónica agrees the sale of up to 40% of Telxius to KKR for 1.275 million euros. In: telxius.com. February 20, 2017, accessed February 24, 2017 .