Telefonica

L'Internet des objets: French firm Sigfox inks deal with Telefonica

World + dog can buy licensed spectrum IoT connectivity

Edge + IoT22 Feb 2017 | 5

O2: Float or flog. What's it going to be, Telefonica?

Forced to find funds for €50bn deficit

Channel05 Sep 2016 | 16

O2 sales dip 9% as tight-fisted Brits cling to their old handsets

Weak pound affects sales reporting in Blighty

On-Prem28 Jul 2016 | 13

Verizon, KT, Telefonica: On three continents, operators prepare for 5G

Europe, Asia, US close to commercially viable model

Networks06 Jul 2016 | 1

Boffins learn to send boredom-beating suggestions to smartphone-fondlers

What fresh hell is this?

Legal03 Sep 2015 | 17

Toshiba-Microsoft IoT collaboration wins at buzzword Bingo

Samsung and Telefónica's Thinking Things spiel comes a close second

On-Prem04 Jun 2015 | 3

Free at last! Flogging off O2 fattens Telefonica’s financials

Higher earnings point to ‘new cycle’ of growth

On-Prem14 May 2015 | 9

OpenMANO: Telefonica's slice of NFV goes live

The Chairman Mao of virtualisation

Networks07 Apr 2015 |

Telefonica seals deal with HP's 'carrier grade' OpenStack phone cloud

MWC 2015 Semi-recycled release still 'biggest ever' rollout, we're told

SaaS03 Mar 2015 |

Telefónica to offload O2 to Three daddy Hutchison for £10.25bn

Talks reported last week, confirmed on Friday

Channel23 Jan 2015 | 45

Hong Kong mogul mulls multi-billion pound bid for O2 – report

Three daddy 'in talks' with Telefonica's UK mobile carrier

On-Prem18 Jan 2015 | 13

BT to gobble EE for £12.5bn – BTEE phone home

+Comment Soz Telefonica, BT's gone for the other one for home, mobe, TV, web 4-way

Channel15 Dec 2014 | 86

'Watson AI, cloud, mobile', says payments firm, trousering £49m

Gathers cash from Telefonica, MasterCard, Santander

On-Prem27 Nov 2014 | 4

BT in talks to re-slurp O2 after spitting it out a decade ago

In talks with Spanish owner Telefonica

Networks24 Nov 2014 | 35

Holy sentient blender, Batman: Telefónica to trial AT&T's Internet of Home Stuff in Europe

We don't know WHERE, but it's coming for our houses

Networks10 Sep 2014 | 8

Telefónica bids for Vivendi's Brazilian bits: Telecom Italia gasps

A Spanish firm, a French firm and an Italian firm all meet up in Brazil...

Networks08 Aug 2014 |

Firefox OS lands in Germany – with France, Asia, and more to come

Mozilla's thrifty, browser-based smartphone OS continues expansion

Personal Tech17 Jul 2014 | 3

Telefonica inks deal with mobile ads platform: Find your customer? There's an API for that

Better get in early before the ad spend's gone

Networks11 Jul 2014 | 3

Mobile money firm Weve waves goodbye to David Sear

Departing boss looks for some change

Networks25 Jun 2014 |

Crikey! Three can buy O2, EU regulator says

Oh wait, only O2 Ireland. As you were

On-Prem02 Jun 2014 | 12

Tesla cars can now 'do an ET' without hurting anyone's bottom line

'I can tell, you know how I can tell? 'Cos we’re connected'

Networks03 Apr 2014 | 30

Three daddy Hutch has no interest in O2

HK giant shuns debt-laden dino

Channel01 Apr 2014 | 7

Cheap'n'cheerful Chinese mobesters ZTE launch Firefox phones

MWC 2014 Billion-unit shipment hopes for Open C and Open II

Personal Tech24 Feb 2014 | 11

Ono board mulls Vodafone's offer to grab its pipe for £5.8bn

Cash-rich mobe telco licks lips over Spanish beauty

Networks11 Feb 2014 | 9

Ex-2e2 staffers STILL waiting for wages owed

Judgment reserved to month end... a year after integrator crashed

Channel15 Jan 2014 | 9

Pay-by-bonk on the blink: O2 loses Wallet

Let's dig down the back of sofa. Maybe we'll find a few customers too

Networks15 Jan 2014 | 24

LG opts for a Brazilian, lobs out low-powered Firefox OS mobe Fireweb

First gadget to launch with version 1.1 of Moz's phone code

Personal Tech23 Oct 2013 | 2

Telefonica and Arqiva set to mop up BILLIONS in smart meter cash

No one wants 2G anymore, so let's use that

Legal15 Aug 2013 | 28

Tu Me to go: Tu Go to be Telefonica's 'NEXT BIG AMAZEBALLS' for voice

VoIP done like email, ish

Networks09 Aug 2013 | 12

The O2 4G Lottery: Are YOU in one of the three LUCKY cities?

But you'll need a new phone, SIM for network's breakneck mobe broadband

Networks01 Aug 2013 | 37

Canonical unveils Carrier Advisory Group for Ubuntu phones

Eight possible launch partners already signed on

Personal Tech18 Jun 2013 | 6

FUTURE of mobe tech: Today will be dry with chilly gusts of 12Mbps

Mobile web 'weather reports' predicted as networks overload

Networks10 Jun 2013 | 8

Telefonica's new offering: We will penetrate you by surprise, every day

'Not now, Cato!'

Security10 Jun 2013 | 13

BT and O2 ink deal to build mega 4G network

Prodigal child needs paternal backend support

Networks30 Apr 2013 | 16

Canadian gov: Have half a million BlackBerrys now, pay later!

We're NOT desperate, we've been doing this since 2006

Networks08 Apr 2013 | 8

O2 flogs new GPS mobile-based telecare to sick and elderly

'Help at hand' aimed at 7 million carers in UK

Networks06 Mar 2013 | 15

O2 pops out vital new feature: Making phone calls from phones

TU Go VoIP app goes live

Personal Tech04 Mar 2013 | 27

Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal

Acquisition plan revealed exclusively by El Reg in January

Networks01 Mar 2013 | 104

That Firefox OS mobe: The sorta phone left behind after a mugging

MWC 2013 Why do they bother? asks our man in Barcelona in his conference sketch

Networks26 Feb 2013 | 94

Telecom bigwigs: 'We're all friends – really'

MWC 2013 Being overcharged for using the airwaves? Blame regulators

Networks25 Feb 2013 | 13

Telefónica slapped with €67m anti-competitive fine from EU

Portugal Telecom gets €12m penalty for deal with 'mate'

Networks23 Jan 2013 | 6

Spanish startup to ship first Mozilla-phones

‘Developer preview’ devices to ship in February

Personal Tech22 Jan 2013 | 28

Telefonica Germany starts bonking with friends

Slow steps towards making cash history

Networks22 Jan 2013 | 6

Sharp-elbowed BT dives into 4G spectrum auction

Oi, mobile players, gerroff

Networks20 Dec 2012 | 28

Telefonica stirs up clouds, offers steaming mug of Instant Servers

99.996 per cent uptime. Not 99.995, not 99.997: 99.996

SaaS07 Nov 2012 | 8

O2 to save the British High Street ... with money-off vouchers

Freebies for free, if you're a SME

On-Prem18 Oct 2012 | 3

O2 overlord looking to push payments-via-mobile-bill model

Hard to flog a horse if you've skinned it alive

Networks11 Oct 2012 | 5

O2 flogs logs of mobe locations to anyone with a wallet

This anonymised guy lives here, works there ...

Networks09 Oct 2012 | 37

O2, Vodafone allowed to hop onto each other's towers

Watchdog approves network-sharing love-in

On-Prem01 Oct 2012 | 17

Why lock your digits to a phone? Telefonica to flog cloudy numbers

Voice-minute cash cow is slowly dying

Networks17 Sep 2012 | 30

Now TalkTalk cuts Brits' access to The Pirate Bay

Downloaders WalkWalk the plank

Networks11 Jun 2012 | 54

Telefonica steps back from China as debts mount

Reduces stake in China Unicom by half

On-Prem11 Jun 2012 | 4

O2, Be Broadband axe Pirate Bay access

Blockade to appear overnight

Networks07 Jun 2012 | 125

Vodafone and O2 to merge mobile networks

And then there were two

On-Prem07 Jun 2012 | 20

Telefonica grabs Jasper cloud to hook up British vending machines

Machine talking to machine on 2G cell networks

Networks06 Jun 2012 | 8

Telefonica chooses stable of young ones to make it money in London

I pay the rent, baby, now bring me some sugar

On-Prem05 Jun 2012 | 5