Telefónica ended the second quarter with 784,600 pay-TV subscribers in its home market Spain.
Mixed fortunes for Telefónica
Spain’s Telefónica ended the first quarter with 786,000 pay-TV subscribers in its home market, or 7% more than in the same period last year.
Spanish supreme court okays RTVE tax
The Spanish supreme court (El Tribunal Supremo) has dismissed the measures requested by Telefónica, Vodafone and ONO to stop the annual tax of 0.9% of their gross operating revenue to […]
Rights restrictions on Digital+ purchase
Spain’s competition authority, the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC), has given Prisa permission to press ahead with the sale of 44% in DTH platform Digital+ to Telecinco and to […]
Mixed fortunes for Telefonica’s TV business
Growth in Telefonica’s domestic pay-TV business has masked the performance elsewhere in the group, including the Czech IPTV operation O2 TV, which entered negative territory.
Telefonica to introduce OTT set-top box
Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica has chosen Oregan Networks as the supplier of client-side middleware, powering Over The Top (OTT) video deployments in Telefónica’s Spanish home market as well as other […]
Spanish TV tax hits Telefónica
Telefónica was hit to the tune of €38 million in the first quarter as it recognized Spain’s TV tax for the first time.
Hispasat stages Spain’s first 3D broadcast
Hispasat has facilitated Spain’s first 3D transmission of a sporting event.
Telefónica grows TV against market trends
Spanish pay-TV subscribers are continuing to gravitate towards Telefónica’s IPTV platform Imagenio.
€470m seals Telefónica stake in Digital+
Amid intense speculation, Telefónica has purchased a 21% stake in Sogecable, operator of Digital+ from Prisa for €470 million. It places a value of over €2,350 million on the direct-to-home […]


