Telefónica
Mr. Angel Vila Boix (COO & Exec. Director)
Ms. Laura Abasolo García de Baquedano (Chief Financial and Control Officer & Head of T. Hispam)
Summary
Telefónica, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services in Europe and Latin America. The company's mobile and related services and products comprise mobile voice, value added, mobile data and Internet, wholesale, corporate, roaming, fixed wireless, and trunking and paging services. Its fixed telecommunication services include PSTN lines; ISDN accesses; public telephone services; local, domestic, and international long-distance and fixed-to-mobile communications; corporate communications; supplementary value-added services; video telephony; intelligent network; and telephony information services, as well as leases and sells handset equipment. The company also provides Internet and broadband multimedia services comprising Internet service provider, portal and network, retail and wholesale broadband access, narrowband switched access, high-speed Internet through fibre to the home, and voice over Internet protocol services. In addition, it offers leased line, virtual private network, fibre optics, web hosting and application, outsourcing and consultancy, desktop, and system integration and professional services. Further, the company offers wholesale services for telecommunication operators, including domestic interconnection and international wholesale services; leased lines for other operators; and local loop leasing services, as well as bit stream services, wholesale line rental accesses, and leased ducts for other operators' fiber deployment. Additionally, it provides video/TV services; smart connectivity and services, and consumer IoT products; financial and other payment, security, cloud computing, advertising, big data, and digital telco experience services; virtual assistants; digital home platforms; and Movistar Home devices. It also offers online telemedicine, home insurance, music streaming, and consumer loan services. The company was incorporated in 1924 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
History
The company was created in Madrid in 1924 as Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España with ITT as one of its major shareholders.
In 1945, the state acquired by law a share of 79.6% of the company. This stake was diluted by a capital increase in 1967.
Until the liberalisation of the telecom market in 1997, Telefónica was the only telephone operator in Spain. It still holds a dominant position .
Key Team
Mr. Enrique Blanco (Chief Technology & Information Officer)
Pablo Eguiron Vidarte (Head of Investor Relations)
Mr. Pablo de Carvajal González (Gen. Counsel, Gen. Sec., Sec. of the Board & Global Director of Regulatory Affairs)
Mr. Francisco de Bergia Gonzalez (Chairman of Public Affairs)
Ms. Marta Machicot (Chief People Officer)
Ms. María García-Legaz Ponce (Chief of Staff)
Mr. Juan Francisco Gallego Arrechea (Gen. Mang. of Internal Audit)
References
Mr. Angel Vila Boix (COO & Exec. Director)
Ms. Laura Abasolo García de Baquedano (Chief Financial and Control Officer & Head of T. Hispam)
