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

Its head office is in the Distrito Telefónica in Madrid.

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.

It is the property of Telkom SA Ltd, Telefónica, Marconi, British Telecom, France Cables et Radio, and Deutsche Telekom.

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 ).

The sole of them operating statewide — Telefónica — is obliged to provide other firms with access to their exchange facilities or rental / transfer of their copper last-mile loops, at fees regulated by the CMT ( practice known as local loop unbundling ).

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.

The company is now officially registered as Telefónica O2 Ireland Limited, but trades as O < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Hewlett-Packard and IBM did not get their leasing fees, BT Ignite ended up providing broadband services without compensation, Hertz will not be getting its car leasing fees, Nokia Ventures with 25 percent ownership, and Softbank UK Ventures with 15 percent ownership had nothing to show, operators in the Philippines ( Global Handyphone ), Italy ( Telecom Italia Mobile – TIM ), Spain ( Telefónica ) and Finland ( Radiolinja ) and the landlord is missing 157, 000 euros worth of rent.

# Chipiona, Spain ( though this landing is considered to be part of the Telefónica domestic network )

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.

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

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

Movistar is a major Spanish mobile phone operator owned by Telefónica S. A ..

Since 1997, it is owned by Telefónica.

Telesystem International Wireless later divested from the company, which is currently owned by Vivo, a Brazilian joint-venture between Portugal Telecom and Spain's Telefónica.

Madrid Arena ( also known as Telefónica Arena due to naming rights ) is an indoor arena located in the city of Madrid, at the fairgrounds in the Casa de Campo, just minutes from downtown.

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

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.

* Vivo TV ( cable TV, formerly Telefónica TV Digital and TVA )

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.

His Ministers of Economy and Finance ( notably Miguel Boyer, Carlos Solchaga and Pedro Solbes ) implemented a vigorous program of economic reforms that included privatisation of public companies such as Telefónica or ENDESA, liberalisation and deregulation of the economy and restructuring of whole industry sectors such as steel or mining which left many people unemployed and created resentment among the working classes and the trade unions.

Members include traditional wireless industry players such as equipment and mobile systems manufacturers ( Ericsson, Thomson, Siemens, Reti Radiotelevisive Digitali, Nokia, Openwave, Sony Ericsson, Philips, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, Research In Motion ) and mobile operators ( Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, LG Telecom ), and also software vendors ( Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle Corporation, Symbian, Celltick, Expway, Mformation, InnoPath, Motive ).

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.

A small portion of the former corporate headquarters became " Terra Networks Asociadas, S. L. U. " ( a new company ) and local Terra operations ( and assets ) were transferred to local fixed-line Telefónica companies.

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.

Vodafone and Telefónica UK Limited ( operator of the O2 mobile network ) signed a deal in June 2012 which will see the two companies ' pool ' their network technology, creating a single national grid of 18, 500 transmitter sites.

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.

Solo exhibitions featuring Juan Downey ’ s work include Juan Downey: Audio-Kinetic Electronic Sculptures, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC ; With Energy Beyond These Walls, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY, ( 1970 ); Video Trans Americas, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, ( 1976 ); Juan Downey: Video Trans Americas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, ( 1976 ); Video Trans Americas, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY ( 1977 ); Juan Downey: New American Filmmaker Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ( 1978 ); Juan Downey, Matrix / Berkeley 16, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA ( 1978 ); Une Forêt ' Videoformes ': Retrospective Juan Downey, Festival de la Création Vidéo, Clermont-Ferrand, France ( 1993 ); Juan Downey: Instalaciones, Dibujos y Videos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago ( 1995 ), Chile ; Juan Downey: Con energía más allá de estos muros, Institut Valencià d ' Art Modern, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain ( 1997 – 98 ); Retrospectiva de Video Arte de Juan Downey, Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé, Castro, Chiloé, Chile ( 2000 ); Plateau of Humankind, Honorable Mention: “ Excellence in Art Science and Technology ,” 49th Venice Biennale Chilean Pavilion, Venice, Italy ( 2001 ); and Juan Downey: El ojo pensante, Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile ( 2010 ); Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY ( 2011-2012 ).

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

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 ".

IONA, Remedy IT and Telefónica have worked on an extension to the CORBA standard that delivers compression.

* Moviline ( Telefónica Servicios Uno since 1971, Moviline since 1994 ) was the analogue service provider for the Spanish operator.

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 ).

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

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

* The stock symbol for Telefónica

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

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.

* 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.

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

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 ).