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Spain’s Telefónica faces a major challenge to its Peru-based Movistar operations as the government is evaluating the renewal of three of its operating licenses. Movistar is the largest telecom group …

Spanish telecom giant Telefónica could move its Latin American headquarters from Madrid to São Paulo. Although rumors say the move is planned, a Telefónica Brazil spokesperson explained to RCR Wireless …

Small cell technology continues to make inroads into carrier deployments as Ruckus Wireless announced today that Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom has begun deploying its products for coverage …

The much-anticipated LTE spectrum auction in the United Kingdom is scheduled to begin this year, but there won’t be any bidding until 2013. The United Kingdom’s telecom regulating authority, Ofcom, announced …

Spanish Telefónica said it will make a multi-million-euro investment to kick start mobile advertising in Brazil, using the O2 media model that was successful in the U.K. as a blueprint. …

Vivo, the Brazilian unit of Spain-based Telefónica, said it has increased its machine-to-machine accesses by 2.5-times in a period of one year (from May 2011 to May 2012). Although M2M …

The French company Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has closed a deal with the Spanish group Telefónica to provide femtocells throughout Europe and South America. The financial terms of …

Looking to counter Carlos Slim’s telecommunications giant América Móvil, Mexican operator Grupo Iusacell and Telefónica said they will enter a network sharing deal. Details of the agreement haven’t been announced …

Venezuela’s three mobile network operators – state-run Movilnet, Telefónica subsidiary Movistar and domestically-owned Digitel – have responded to last month’s invitation to participate in a tender for three blocks of …

Spain telecom giant Telefónica announced it has agreed to sell almost half its stake in China Unicom (4.56%) for about $1.41 billion (€1.13 billion) to the Chinese telecom’s unlisted parent …

The U.K. wireless market continues its evolution as today rivals Telefonica UK, which operates under the O2 brand, and Vodafone UK announced plans to cooperate on “basic” network infrastructure that …

Telefónica is planning an initial public offering of its German O2 unit as a move to raise cash to pay-down debt and protect the company against América Móvil’s efforts to …

Among the key challenges for launching mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Latin America are the negotiations between MVNOs and mobile network operators (MNOs) and the time-to-market. Several countries in …

Wanda, the mobile money joint venture between Telefónica and MasterCard, launched in Argentina, eyeing the millions of wireless users who don’t have a bank account. Wanda is expected to reach …

The Colombian unit of Spain’s Telefónica has unified its services under the brand Movistar. The move includes its fixed telephony, broadband services and satellite TV, and follows the company’s international direction …

When the European Parliament voted on May 10 to place new caps on roaming charges, they included data services for the first time. Telefonica was the first major carrier to …

Telefónica’s Latin American earnings surpassed its earnings from Europe for the first time in the Spanish group’s history. The telecom operator announced first quarter 2012 earnings of 15,511 million euros, …

In the same week that Spanish telecom giant Telefónica announced a $502 million (Bs 2.16 billion) investment in its Movistar unit in Venezuela, the Argentinian government fined it about $41.7 …

After 18 months working on the Vivo integration, Telefonica announced that starting April 15 all Brazilian products, including mobile, fixed, pay-TV and broadband services for consumers and enterprise segments, will be re-branded …

Brazilian carrier Vivo, owned by the Spain’s Telefónica, expanded its HSPA+ services to nearly all of Brazil’s states, except for Roraima and Amapá. The business offerings started April 4 under …

To the potential delight of wireless operators, a new report from ComScore shows that a significantly higher percentage of iPhone users in the United States and United Kingdom rely on …

Spain’s Telefónica(NYSE: TEF) said Monday it has reached an agreement with Colombia‘s government to merge fixed-line operator Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel) with mobile operator Telefonica Moviles Colombia. Telefónica owns 52% of …

Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) has secured U.S. $26.5 million in new equity funding to develop its regional business and launch mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services in Chile. The …

“Cloud computing is a fantastic way to sell more data.” By stressing this definition, the director of innovation at TIM Brazil, Maurício Cascão, defined the telecom operator’s strategy in launching …