Telefónica

Telefónica S. A. (Madrid: TEF.MC ) is one of the largest global telecommunications companies. It is the second largest by market capitalization after the Spanish company Grupo Santander.

Telefónica operates mainly in Europe and the predominantly still strongly growing markets of Latin America. On the Spanish home market and in Latin America, the Group is the market leader and occurs under the brand Movistar, while in Europe ( outside Spain ) acts as O2. Other Group companies are the Internet portals Terra Networks and Lycos, as well as the call center operator Atento.

Telefónica has a truly global network. Telefónica Germany maintains a comprehensive, 40,000 -kilometer backbone with 329 POPs.

Acquisitions

• The Bertelsmann subsidiary mediaWays, a German Internet and network service provider was acquired by Telefónica in March 2001 for 1.6 billion U.S. dollars.
• Telefónica has acquired the Latin American mobile communications business from BellSouth for 4.72 billion euros ( 5.85 billion U.S. dollars) in March 2004.
• In February 2005, Telefónica absorbed its Internet subsidiary Terra - Lycos.
• In April 2005, Telefónica acquired 51 percent of the town of Český Telecom for 2.75 billion euros.
• In 2005/2006, the British telephone company O ₂ was acquired for the equivalent of 26 billion euros. Thus Telefónica in Europe sparked the German Telekom from the second- largest wireless service provider Vodafone.
• Telefónica reintegrated its unlisted mobile division Telefónica Móviles. The costs amounted to 3.5 billion euros.
• April 2006: Telefónica took over 50 % of the shares plus a Colombian in " Telecom". Telefónica paid the equivalent of 309 million euros for the stake, according to official information from Bogotá.
• In a joint venture, Telefónica is working with the Portuguese company Portugal Telecom in mobile operator Vivo in Latin America together.
• Jajah was bought in late 2009 by the telecommunications group Telefónica for the sum of 145 million euros.
• February 2010: Telefónica O ₂ took Alice ( HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH ) for 900 million euros.
• July 2013: Telefónica announced the proposed acquisition of KPN 's subsidiary E-Plus. The merger with O ₂ is the largest German mobile operators would arise.

Sales

In April 2007, Telefónica sold its UK subsidiary Airwave, an operator closed wireless networks for the British police, fire and rescue workers, for three billion euros in two infrastructure funds of the Australian financial investor Macquarie. About the Airwave network telephoned at the time approximately 220,000 users.

Mobile

The mobile subsidiary of the Group is called Telefónica Móviles. Since January 23, 2006 belongs to Telefónica Europe (formerly O ₂ plc ). Telefónica Móviles With over 100 million customers worldwide, the world's fourth largest mobile phone company after China Mobile, Vodafone and China Unicom.

As the largest mobile operator in Spain and Latin America Telefónica followed in the mobile sector expansionary strategy, combined with the buying up of many smaller suppliers, especially in Latin America.

Telefónica Germany

Telefónica Germany GmbH is part of Telefónica Europe and operates under the name O2. It was formed from the merger of mediaWays and the Highway One in 2003 and has its headquarters in Munich. The company is led by René Schuster (CEO ) ( CEO), Rachel Empey (finance) (CFO ) and has about 5,000 employees.

Telefónica Germany 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 major data centers in Gutersloh, Frankfurt am Main and Munich. In the Next Generation Network ( NGN) with over 40,000 kilometers are operated 325 points of presence ( PoP), more than 2200 high-speed transfer points.

Telefónica Germany is a provider of Internet services, the consistent pursuit of the strategy "All over IP" VoIP and ADSL2 . As an infrastructure provider, the Telefónica Germany GmbH has positioned this with VoIP and DSL wholesale products on the wholesale market. Today, Telefónica reached 60% of German households with ADSL2 infrastructure, which is sold exclusively by large ISPs. By 2009, the company wants to increase the coverage to 70%. The company generated 2006 sales of 350 million euros.

In August 2009, large parts of the Telefónica Germany GmbH were spun in the Telefónica Germany GmbH Access, the latter was in the same month with the Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG merged. On 8 October 2010, Telefónica O2 Germany announced that, as part of the acquisition of HanseNet approximately 1,100 jobs will be cut. Furthermore, the location in Verl, and the offices in Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hannover, Leipzig and Stuttgart are resolved.

Investments

Telefónica was involved together with the Finnish Sonera on the Group 3G, which had acquired a UMTS license in Germany in August 2000 and boarding with the seller Quam in the market.