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Citi Research has raised its stance on Telefónica to “buy” from “neutral” and its target price to $17.39 per share from $14.59, according to Reuters news. Separately, the global news agency …

Deal calls for NetCracker to update BSS in seven Telefónica markets International telecom giant Telefónica selected NetCracker Technology to update its business support systems supporting seven Latin American operations. The …

Argentina first to experience Telefónica’s end-to-end customer experience solution Telefónica has tapped Accenture and Alcatel-Lucent to implement an end-to-end customer experience solution for a range of services for its European and Latin American …

Barcelona, the annual host of Mobile World Congress, is also striving to become one of Europe’s top tourist cities, so the Spanish city recently brought in SAP and Telefónica to …

In some ways, Spain moves at a slower pace than the rest of Europe. Spaniards tend to get up later, eat later and go to bed later than the rest …

Carrier Oi cuts 6% of workforce Brazilian wireless carrier Oi said it was laying off 1,070 employees, or 6% of its approximately 18,000-strong total direct workforce. Last year, the company …

Two major telecommunications vendors announced they have been selected by Telefónica to deploy part of the carrier’s infrastructure. Huawei will complete a software-defined networking-based IP/optical field trial with Telefónica Peru, while several …

Sprint device offer targeted at its lease program; taps Telefonica for international roaming Samsung devices may still lack the cache of Apple’s iPhone lineup, but that’s not stopping mobile operators …

Brazil’s antitrust agency, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, gave Telefónica the green light to acquire GVT on March 25. Following the approval, the local unit of the Spanish group announced …

If approved, O2 U.K. acquisition will create country’s top mobile operator It’s official. Confirming recent reports, Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, owner of U.K. operator Three, announced an agreement with the Spanish …

Movistar Chile, which belongs to the Spanish group Telefónica, signed an agreement with Chinese provider Huawei to deploy LTE technology in the 700 MHz band across 13 regions. The deployment …

BARCELONA, Spain – Alcatel-Lucent continues to focus on being a leading provider of high-speed mobile broadband services using small cell technologies across Latin America. In a meeting with journalists at this …

Connectem’s V-EPC platform expected to bolster Brocade’s NFV, SDN services Virtualized telecom platform provider Brocade is set to bolster its offerings through a pending acquisition of privately held LTE virtual …

Kumu Networks in business with Telefonica, SK Telecom on path to 5G BARCELONA, Spain – Kumu Networks, a Bay Area-based company that started as a doctoral project by Stanford University …

Telefónica to tap HP’s OpenNFV platform to drive NFV, SDN, cloud transformation Spain-based telecommunications giant Telefónica reported a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to act as the technology provider and systems integrator …

BARCELONA, Spain — Telecommunications giant Telefónica said it’s confident about the future growth potential of most of its operations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, coming on the heels of …

Telefónica’s 2014 full-year and fourth-quarter net income slumped 34.7% and 89.5%, respectively, in a year-over-year comparison. Total revenue decreased 11.7% for the full year and 14.1% in Q4 2014. In …

C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets Senza Fili’s new report “Charting the path to RAN virtualization: C-RAN, fronthaul and HetNets” discusses the market trends, operator requirements and technology opportunities driving the transition to …

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Antonio Carlos Valente, the president of Telefónica Vivo, said the company is waiting for a decision from the Administrative Council for Economic Defense before moving forward with integrating GVT’s operations. Telefónica bought GVT last …

Telefónica SA considers using O2 proceeds to pay for GVT Telefónica SA is reportedly considering using proceeds from the sale of O2 UK to pay for Brazilian broadband operator GVT. …

Sky set to add mobile to platform beginning in 2016 U.K.-based satellite television provider Sky said it plans to add mobile services to its portfolio through a mobile virtual network …

A conversation with Javier Lorca Hernando, Project Manager for the RAN, Telefonica R&D Download a transcript of the complete interview now and be among the first to receive the complete …

China Telecom ringing in the New Year with goals to release 100 contract-bundled 4G smartphone models China Telecom and China Unicom have been rolling out LTE FDD/TD-LTE 4G networks in …

The Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia, TIM, closed a deal with WhatsApp. Under the agreement, TIM Brasil customers who have the post-paid “controle” plan can use WhatsApp without paying for the data consumption …