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Articles tagged with: Telefonica
Telefonica Expands Mobile Email Service to Consumer Market
Mobile email vendor, Seven has announced that telefonica's existing business email service, Mail Movistar has now been expanded to include the consumer segment. Seven says that having one email solution across telefonica’s entire base generates new revenue as customers use the service for one purpose and migrate to using email for another. more
Telefonica Testing "Idle Screen" Mobile Advertising
telefonica's Argentinean mobile network has announced the launch of an "idle screen" marketing service which is operated by Celltick's LiveScreen Media platform. LiveScreen Media broadcasts news and information teasers as well as advertising messages, directly to the mobile phone's idle-screens, creating a network of personal billboards. Revenue from the service is generated from content downloads, subscription services and advertising fees. more
Related Tags: celltick, movistar, Argentina
DoCoMo and Telefonica to Introduce Windows Mobile Handset by Toshiba
Japan's DoCoMo and Spain's Telefónica have jointly announced that a Windows Mobile handset model made by Toshiba will be introduced by both companies in their respective Japanese and Spanish markets in June to July as part of a plan for various joint undertakings by the two mobile operators. more
Related Tags: docomo, toshiba, windows-mobile, mobile-internet, windows, Japan
Telefonica Rolls Out Mobile Advertising in Spain
Mobile advertising agency, Amobee Media Systems says that it has launched mobile advertising for Telefónica in Spain. The move is part of the companies' global alliance announced in June 2008. more
Related Tags: amobee-media-systems, mobile-advertising, mobile-commerce, Spain
Telefonica to Boost Holding in China Unicom
Spain's telefonica is to invest around EUR 800 million (US$1.16 billion) to maintain its holding in China Unicom. The Chinese operator is merging with landline operator, China Netcom in a government mandated program, and telefonica will end up with 5.5% of the merged company. more
Related Tags: china-unicom, china-netcom, netcom, China
telefonica has shaken up the management at its German O2 subsidiary, moving the current CEO, Jaime Smith Basterra over to the parent company as Director of Affiliates and Industrial Alliances. He is to be replaced by former Vodafone exec, Rene Schuster who is coming in from outside the company. more
Related Tags: o2-germany, partner, Germany
Telefonica's Net Profit Grew by 9.8% in Q1
Telefónica has reported that its first-quarter revenue fell dropped to EUR 13.7 billion in the first quarter of 2009, down by 1.4% compared to the first quarter of 2008. However, this was mainly as a result of the negative exchange rate effect, which reduced growth by 4.7 percentage points. more
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Contract Awarded for Spanish Mobile Number Portability
The Spanish mobile operators are reported to have awarded a contract to local form, Indra to manage their mobile number portability platform from February 2010. The contract is worth €4.7 million over a three year period. more
Related Tags: indra, cmt, mobile-number-portability, vodafone, orange, yoigo, number-portability, Spain
Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity
Fitch Ratings says, in report published today, that European high-grade telecom issuers have continued to maintain good liquidity and that their access to capital markets remained relatively healthy during the course of Q109. more
Related Tags: fitch-ratings, deutsche-telekom, telecom-italia, kpn, portugal-telecom, vodafone, capex, iden, wind, eu
Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services
Signals Telecom Consulting has issued a commentary which notes that as from 2010 Brazil will account for the greatest number of WiMAX accesses in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, a position that it will keep in the medium term. Signals expects that the setting of regulations for the use of the 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands, plus the tendering of new bands, will provide a strong impulse to this technology in Brazil. Signals foresees the entry into the market of large-scale operators such as Telefónica (via TVA), which will use WiMAX to expand its area of operation outside Sao Paulo, and SKY (DirecTV), among others, which will join the current efforts being made by Embratel and Neovia. Signals expects that operators will carry out their own development to be able to add their own last mile. more
Related Tags: wimax, 3g, signals-telecom-consulting, mobile-number-portability, wi-fi, rcom, mts, hspa, ovi, iden, virgin-mobile, mvno, ict, rural, itu, number-portability, Brazil