The Moviline brand has been completely replaced by Movistar, the digital brand of Telefónica, since 1992.

* Moviline, Telefónica Móviles's old analog network

Moviline has operated an ETACS 900 ( mHz ) network in Spain.

Fixed line market is peculiar in Spain, since only two local loop providers can operate at each particular region ( or demarcación as regulated by the CMT ): a cable carrier ( such as Ono, R and many others ) and the former State monopoly ( Telefónica ).

On 17 November 2001 Manx Telecom became part of mmO < sub > 2 </ sub > following the demerger of BT Wireless's operations from BT Group, and the company was owned by Telefónica.

On 4 June 2010 Manx Telecom was sold by Telefónica to UK private equity investor HgCapital ( who were buying the majority stake ), alongside telecoms management company CPS Partners

The remaining half of the business owned by Terra was subsequently reacquired by Telefónica.

Spanish companies invested in fields like renewable energy ( Iberdrola was the world's largest renewable energy operator ), technology companies like Telefónica, Abengoa, Mondragon Corporation, Movistar, Hisdesat, Gamesa, Indra, train manufacturers like CAF, Talgo, global corporations such as the textile company Inditex, petroleum companies like Repsol and infrastructure, with six of the ten biggest international construction firms specialising in transport being Spanish, like Ferrovial, Acciona, ACS, OHL and FCC.

Created in 1924, as Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España ( CTNE ), until the liberalisation of the telecom market in 1997, Telefónica was the only telephone operator in Spain and still holds a dominant position ( over 75 % in 2004 ).

The dome was publicly renamed as The O2 on 31 May 2005, in a £ 6 million-per-year deal with telecommunications company O2 plc, now a subsidiary of Telefónica Europe.

In the 1990s the Argentine telephone system ( which was formerly property of a state-owned company, ENTEL ) was sold to two private corporations looking to invest in the local market: Telefónica, a telco from Spain, and Telecom Argentina, owned by Telecom Italia and the Argentine Werthein family.

* Spain: Videotex was introduced by Telefónica in 1990 and named Ibertex.

The clash was precipitated by the privatization auction of the communication utility Svyazinvest, in which Onexim bank of Chubais ’ loyalist Vladimir Potanin, backed by George Soros, competed with Gusinsky, allied with Spanish Telefónica.

In 2000, the company was sold to the Spanish telecom and media corporation Telefónica for € 5. 5 billion.

After his return from active duty serving his country, Colonel Behn co-founded the Puerto Rico Telephone Company which eventually spawned ITT Under his direction ITT was granted the monopoly of telephone service in Spain ( Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España ) in 1924, and purchased the international division of Western Electric.

In Europe, for example, it was available from O2 UK, O2 Ireland, and Telefónica Spain.

In fact, Telefónica was fined in excess of € 152 million by the European Commission on July 4, 2007 on ground of " impeding competition on the Spanish broadband internet access market for more than five years, and so depriving consumers and business of a choice of broadband suppliers ".

On 6 November 2008, it was announced that Telefónica Europe ( owners of the O < sub > 2 </ sub > Network in the UK ) had become the new sponsor of all Academy venues, in a deal with music promotor Live Nation.

Esat Digifone, a GSM mobile phone network which was the first competitor to Eircell ( then a Telecom Éireann subsidiary ) was originally a joint venture between Esat Telecom and Telenor, however when Esat was sold to BT, the mobile division became part of BT Wireless, which was eventually spun off as O < sub > 2 </ sub >, which in turn was bought by Spanish-based Telefónica in 2005 ( EU approved in 2006 ).

Although it granted Telefónica control over more than 70 % of Terra's stock, the move was not successful enough to let Telefónica take Terra out of the public, as it was allegedly its objective.

Advanced Digital Broadcast ( ADB ) launched its first hybrid DTT / IPTV set-top box in 2005, which provided Telefónica with the digital TV platform for its Movistar Imagenio service by the end of that year.

Fibertel, a cable provider, now offers Cablemodem service in a limited range of cities, and ADSL is monopolized by the 2 major phone companies: Telecom in the north with Arnet ADSL, and Telefónica in the south with Speedy ADSL.

Some of them can however get their service from a third company who will bill the service and then pay Telefónica for the copper pair rental and maintenance fees, with the customer receiving a single bill.

It provides mobile telephone coverage to 92 % of the Australian population and 68 of the top 100 markets in the US on behalf of service providers such as 3, AT & T Mobility, Telefónica O2, Orange, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone.

F-Secure is the global leader in providing software as a service through operators with over 200 operator partners worldwide including AT & T, Vodafone and Telefónica.

It is a free service of machine translation sponsored by Telefónica.

As of 2011, most consumer and business services from Telefónica – mobile telephony, landline service, broadband and television ( satellite or IPTV, depending on the location )-in Spain and most of Latin America are marketed under the Movistar brand.

In Chile, Telefónica del Sur on March 2006 launched a PHS-based telephony service in some cities of the southern part of the country.

With offices in The Americas, Europe, and Asia, Critical Path's solutions have been deployed by more than 200 service providers, including Vodafone, Telecom Italia, O2, Telefónica Móviles, Tiscali, SFR, Indosat, Wind and ONO.

* Spain: Starting in 2011, Telefónica, the former state monopoly that holds the country's " universal service " contract, has to guarantee to offer " reasonably " priced broadband of at least one megabyte per second throughout Spain.

Telefónica, S. A. () is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

* Telefónica Europe, a European telecommunications provider trading as O2 ( typeset as O < sub > 2 </ sub >)

Part of Telefónica Group ( the former Spanish public telephone monopoly ), Terra operates as a web portal and / or an internet access provider in the U. S., Spain, and 16 Latin American countries.

Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, for $ 12. 5 billion ($ billion today ).

Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.

In turn, Francis Leung Pak-to has agreed to sell an 8 % stake in PCCW to Telefónica for 323 million euros.

* The stock symbol for Telefónica

In the end, as Telefónica set up a reselling program for their fixed lines and DSL internet access, the former monopoly is still much in control of the fixed line market, including profitable broadband access.

* Francisco Gil Díaz, former Secretary of Finance during Vicente Fox's presidential administration and current General Director of Telefónica for Mexico and Central America.

Soon after that, Telefónica decided to get more control over Terra and launched an offer for shares of Terra still floating on the stock market.

In February 2005, Telefónica announced its intention of taking full control of Terra by giving Telefónica ' shares in exchange for Terra's remaining shares in the stock market.

Currently, the Telefonica brand is only used for the group Telefónica Brasil.

PEC has worked all over the world for companies and organisations including British Gas, British Telecom, Irish Life, Telefónica O2 and the World Bowls association.

Endemol was listed on the stock exchange in 1996 and was sold to the Spanish telecom giant Telefónica in 2000 for € 5. 5bn.

In early 2005, Oi Internet launched its broadband services, initially available only for Oi's Oi Velox DSL subscribers, but now also available for Brasil Telecom Turbo and Telefónica Speedy subscribers.

Brasil Telecom, the country's third largest fixed-line operator, and Opportunity, which controlled Brasil Telecom, hired Kroll to determine whether Telecom Italia competed with Brasil Telecom in 2000 in the latter's acquisition of the Brazilian fixed-line phone company Companhia Riograndense de Telecomunicoes (' CRT ') from Spain's Telefónica with the purpose of increasing the final price paid by Brasil Telecom for CRT, as both Opportunity and Telecom Italia were struggling for the control of Brasil Telecom.

An historical event, the bloody fight between Republicans and Anarchists for controlling the Telefónica building in Barcelona, has been chosen by Loach as an emblem of this internal conflict ( See Barcelona May Days ).

The pavilion is sponsored by the company Telefónica for what is also known by the names of Telefónica and Telefónica Arena Madrid Arena.