Telefonicawatch Report #58 September 2011 Snapshot
19 October 2011
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Table of Contents
1 Executive brief
4 Telefónica Group
4 Operations
4 Telefónica details new management structure
4 Telefónica Digital management team draws senior Europe figures
5 Global Resources demonstrates wide remit
5 Competitors
5 Corporate social responsibility
6 Telefónica Europe management sees subtle shifts
6 Corporate social responsibility
6 Financial reports
7 Telefónica Latinoamérica solidifies support roles
7 Dividend cut predicted for Telefónica
8 Sector reacts to Telefónica re-org
8 Global Resources seen as aping Vodafone, Digital leading way
8 Digital division about alliances as well as competition
8 “…out of context…”
8 Telefónica re-org reaction
9 Perception of Madrid devolving power misplaced
9 Strategy
10 Telefónica Digital
10 Advertising solutions
10 O2 More boasts six million customers
10 Wayra
11 BlueVia
11 BlueVia targets Silicon Valley
11 Innovation
11 Telefónica claims progress for Innova project
13 M2M
13 Telefónica ties with Masternaut for telematics
14 Linares emphasises commitment to digital at Santander
15 Telefónica Global Resources
15 Devices
16 Networks
16 Telefónica launches CDN platform
16 O2CR and O2 Germany tie for network management
17 Telefónica Europe
17 Czech Republic
17 O2 continues to expand 3G network
18 Digital dividend sell-off tabled for 2012 — report
19 Germany
19 O2 discounts LTE for home as rural DSL alternative
19 LTE leading new wave of fixed-mobile substitution?
19 O2 stores to accept old handsets
20 Ireland
20 Hanway succeeds Shurrock as CEO of Telefónica Ireland
20 Spain
20 Gilperez steps into España role
20 Teixeira moves up ranks in Brazil
22 Telefónica to launch pre-commercial LTE service
22 Alcatel-Lucent supplies network
22 LTE competition from Orange and Vodafone
22 Slovakia
23 Longer term LTE plans
23 Ansaldo outlines investment in last speech for España
24 CMT shows Movistar still struggling, and shedding share
24 Broadband accesses dip sequentially, but fibre grows
25 Fixed-line continues decline
25 Telefónica cuts prices, but denies entering price war
26 Limited offer restricts risk to revenue
26 Telefónica claims of no price war look hollow
27 CMT to review Telefónica charges
27 Hints that mobile competition could intensify
28 Telefónica selects Redknee for pricing analysis
28 Spain following Ireland’s lead
29 United Kingdom
29 Jacada wins new O2 contract
29 O2 UK opens new store, including O2 Workshop
30 Concerns reappear that UK spectrum auction on slide
30 UK
32 3 seeks to derail mobile commerce alliance
32 O2 trumpets success of dual-screen marketing campaign
33 O2 signs Outsourcery as JUC partner
34 Telefónica Latinoamérica
34 Regional
34 Telefónica sold customer data to Santander
34 Competitors
35 Álvarez-Pallete on Latin America
36 Argentina
36 Telefónica launches UC offering
36 Telefónica making strides in corporate sector
36 Movistar launches content management platform
37 Movistar deploys Mublet solution
37 Telefónica claims 3m internet customers
37 Brazil
37 Vivo launches mobile top-up
38 Colombia
38 Colombian operations may merge
39 Ecuador
39 Government to award additional spectrum in short term
39 Costa Rica
40 Peru
40 Licence renewal dispute continues
42 Movistar and Nokia take “green” drive to Peru
42 Venezuela
43 Associates and investments
43 China Unicom
43 China Unicom extends MPS partnership with Trunkbow
44 Telecom Italia
44 No new entrant via ‘digital dividend’ sale
44 TIM Brasil invests in network to challenge Vivo
45 AES Atimus acquisition clears another hurdle
46 Index
Index
A
Academy Music Group (AMG)
- O2 Academy, 30
AES Atimus, 45
Alcatel-Lucent, 15, 22, 23
AM Best Europe, 6
Amdocs, 44, 45
América Móvil, 39
- Claro, 39, 40
- Comcel, 38
- Telmex Int. (Carso Global Te. SAB)
- – Tel. de Méx. (Telmex), 38
Amobee, 11
Analysys Mason, 35
Anatel, 45
Apple, 29
- iPhone, 29
Aspiro, 34
B
B2X Care Solutions, 19
Banco BPI SA, 8
Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), 38
Bernstein, 6, 7
BOKU, 11
BT Group, 29
Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Postal Service and Railways, BNA/BNetzA/RegTP, Germany), 19
C
Cade (Brazil), 45
Carbon Disclosure Project, 5
Casiopea Re, 6
Channel 4, 32
China Telecom, 43
Cisco Systems, Inc., 35, 44, 45
CMT (Spain), 20, 24, 25, 27
Confindustria, 44
CPqD, 37
D
Deutsche Telekom, 5
- Czech Republic, 17, 18
- Slovakia, 22
- USA, 5
Dow Jones Sustainability Index, 6
E
European Union, 23, 32
- European Commission, 14, 32
Everything Everywhere (FT/DT), 29, 30, 32
F
Facebook, 9
Fibra Ottica, 44
Foursquare, 11
France Télécom, 34
- Orange, 9, 22, 23, 24, 25, 34
- – Spain, 22
Futurecom, 37
G
Google, 9, 16, 29
- Android, 15, 29
- YouTube, 30, 32
Grupo Santander, 9, 14, 26, 34
H
High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), 15
Huawei, 15, 22
Hutchison Whampoa, 32
- H3G
- – 3 Italia, 44
- – UK, 29, 30, 32
I
Indepabis, 42
Informa plc, 8
Innova, 11
Intelig, 44, 45
International Telecommunications Union, 11
J
Jacada, 29
Jasper Wireless, 13
L
London Underground, 29
M
Masternaut, 13
MC-link, 44
Microsoft, 11
Ministerio de Transportes y Com. (Peru), 40
Mublet, 37
N
NEC, 36
Nokia, 11, 42
O
Ofcom (UK), 30
Office of Fair Trading, 32
- Competition Appeal Tribunal, 30
Orascom
- Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA, 44
Osiptel, 40
Outsourcery, 33
R
Redknee, 28
Regions
- APAC
- – China, 43
- EMEA
- – Czech Rep., 16, 17, 18
- – Europe, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 32, 34, 35
- – France, 34
- – Germany, 5, 16, 18, 19
- – Ireland, 4, 18, 20, 28
- – Italy, 44
- – Slovakia, 6, 16, 22
- – Spain, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 34, 42
- – Sweden, 34
- – UK, 5, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 29, 30, 32, 33
- Latin America, 7, 9, 11, 34, 35, 42, 44
- – Argentina, 7, 10, 15, 16, 34, 36
- – Brazil, 7, 10, 16, 20, 34, 37, 38, 44, 45
- – Chile, 7, 10, 11, 16, 34
- – Colombia, 16, 38
- – Costa Rica, 39
- – Ecuador, 10, 39, 40
- – Mexico, 16
- – Panama, 34
- – Peru, 10, 34, 40, 42
- – Uruguay, 10
- – Venezuela, 10, 16, 42
- North America
- – Canada, 28
- – USA, 5, 9, 11
Research In Motion
- BlackBerry, 43
Royal KPN, 5
S
Samsung, 15
- Galaxy, 15
Siemens Enterprise Communications, 36
Sony Ericsson, 15, 42
Supertel (Ecuador), 39
T
Technologies
- 2G
- – GSM, 43
- 3G, 15, 17, 38, 43
- – WCDMA, 17, 43
- 4G
- – LTE, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 30, 44
- – WiMAX, 44
- Broadband, 7, 14, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 33, 37, 44
- – ADSL, 25, 26, 44
FTTH, 24, 26
- BSS/OSS, 44, 45
- ICT, 11, 35
- IP, 22, 25, 35, 36, 44, 45
- M2M, 13, 24
- MMS, 36
- NFC, 14, 32
- NGN, 44
- SMS, 10
- Telematics, 13
- TV, 30, 32, 34
- WLAN
- – WiFi, 29
Tekelec, 44, 45
Telecom Italia, 38, 44, 45
- Telecom Italia Mobile, 44
- TIM Brasil, 44, 45
Telefónica Group, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 34, 38
- Associates and investments
- – Amobee, 11
- – China Unicom, 43
- – Telecom Italia, 38, 44, 45
- Atento, 5
- Digital, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 29
- – BlueVia, 4, 11
- – Global New Services, 4, 13, 14
- – Innova, 11
- – JAJAH, 11
- – M2M, 13, 24
- – Mobile advertising, 10
- – Mobile commerce, 32
- – O2 Litmus, 4
- – O2 Media, 10
- – Telefónica I+D, 4, 11
- – Wayra, 10, 11, 35
- Europe, 34
- – Alice, 19
- – Czech Republic, 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
- – Fonic, 15
- – Germany, 6, 15, 16, 19
- – Ireland, 4, 6, 20, 28
- – O2 Guru, 29
- – O2 Media, 10
- – Slovakia, 22
- – Spain, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
- – UK, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 29, 30, 32, 33
- Executives
- – Aguilera, Javier, 22
- – Alierta, César, 9, 14
- – Álvarez-Pallete Lopez, Jose Maria, 35
- – Aninat, Cristian, 7
- – Ansaldo, Guillermo, 5, 20, 23, 26
- – Ashford, Sally, 6
- – Baylis, Richard, 29
- – Blanco, Enrique, 5
- – Caride, Eduardo, 7
- – Cobiana, Patricia, 6
- – Crespo, Manuel, 5
- – Cuesta, Ignacio, 7
- – Delgado, Javier, 7
- – de Lima, Roberto, 20
- – Dev, Vivek, 4
- – Diaz, Arelis, 7
- – Domingo, Carlos, 4
- – Dunne, Ronan, 6
- – Dvorjancansky, Jiri, 17
- – Fernández Valbuena, Santiago, 7
- – Frowde, Mark, 29
- – Garcia Cabeza, Camilo, 5
- – Garcia de Castro, Javier, 5
- – Gardelliano, Ernesto, 4
- – Gilolmo, Emilio, 7
- – Gilperez, Luis Miguel, 6, 7, 20
- – Gregory, Shaun, 10
- – Hanway, Tony, 6, 20
- – Horcajo, Alberto, 5
- – Hunter-Schyff, Charlie, 10
- – Jarvis, Kate, 4
- – Jimenez, Daniel, 7
- – Jordan, Phil, 5
- – Kennedy, Maggie, 33
- – Key, Matthew, 4, 8, 14, 29
- – Linares, Julio, 5, 9, 14
- – Linares, Simon, 4, 6
- – Lopez, Pilar, 6
- – Lopez Vives, Juan Carlos, 5
- – Malvido, Luis Antonio, 6
- – Maraver, Oscar, 5
- – Marti, Antonio, 4
- – Medina, Enrique, 6
- – Morales, Carlos, 13
- – Nicholas, David, 4
- – Parton, James, 11
- – Poston, Richard, 6
- – Rampling, Peter, 19
- – Rava, Federico, 7
- – Roseiro, Carlos, 37
- – San Miguel, Vicente, 5
- – Santiso, Javier, 6
- – Schuster, Rene, 6
- – Shurrock, Stephen, 4, 20
- – Smith, Jaime, 7
- – Teixeira, Paulo Cesar, 7, 20
- – Valente, Antonio Carlos, 37
- – Ward, Liz, 32
- – Zamora, Rafael, 11
- Ex-executives
- – Finch, David, 6
- – Gray, Danuta, 20
- Global Resources, 8, 14, 15, 23
- – Telefónica Global Delivery Network, 16
- – Telefónica Global Technology (TGT), 5
- – Telefónica International Wholesale Servs., 5, 11
- – Telefónica Multinational Solutions, 5
- Latinoamérica, 4, 7, 20, 34, 35, 37, 38, 42
- – Argentina, 4, 36, 37
- – Brazil, 7, 37, 38
- – Chile, 7, 11
- – Colombia, 38
- – Innova, 11
- – Peru, 15, 40, 42
- – Telefónica Int. (TISA), 6, 7
- – Vivo, 4, 7, 20, 34, 37, 38, 44
- Products and services
- – Aula365, 25, 37
- – Imagenio, 25, 26
- – Joined Up, 33
- – O2 More, 10
- – O2 o, 9
- – O2TV, 17
- – Pay & Go, 15
- – pay-TV, 25
- – Priority Moments, 10
- – Speedy, 37
- – terabox, 25
- – TRIO, 25
TeliaSonera
- Yoigo (Xfera), 24, 27
Tempah, Tinie, 32
Transport for London, 29
Trunkbow, 43
Tuenti, 16
V
Viettel, 40
Virgin Media, 29
Vodafone Group, 5, 8, 9, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 32, 33, 44
- Czech Republic, 17, 18
- Germany, 19
- UK, 29, 30, 32
W
Wired, 29
World Wildlife Fund, 19
Y
Yankee Group, 9
Yulong Computer Telecom. Scientific, 43
Z
Zacks Investment Research, 7
ZTE, 15, 43
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Covering: September 2011
Published: October 2011
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