Telefónica, S.A.

Telefónica, S.A. is a multinational telecommunications company that provides services in Europe and Latin America. The company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain and was incorporated in 1924.

Telefónica offers a wide range of services including 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. In addition, it offers Internet and broadband multimedia services such as 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.

The company also provides wholesale services for telecommunication operators such as 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. Its other services include 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.

Telefónica has also ventured into other services such as online telemedicine, home insurance, music streaming, and consumer loan services. It also leases and sells handset equipment. The company has a presence in more than 20 countries and has over 350 million customers. It is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world and is listed on the Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia stock exchanges, as well as on the London, New York, and Lima stock exchanges.