Archive for the ‘Spain’ Category

Telefonica Impressive Performance and Spanish Telecos

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Via El Economista I found this table that shows the impressive performance of Telefonica over the past eight years since Cesar Alierta took over the CEO position from Juan Villalonga. Telefonica has gone from 15th place in 2000 to be the 3rd Telco worldwide in market capitalization after China Mobile ...

Martin Varsavsky on Web 2.0 Expo

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Tim O'Reilly interviews Martin Varsavsky during the Web 2.0 Expo Europe last month. Martin is a serial entrepreneur that successfully created Jazztel and Ya.com to compete with Telefonica in fixed telephony and Internet access in Spain in the late 90s. He later IPO'ed Jazztel and sold Ya.com to Deutche Telekom ...

Pay-TV Market in Spain: IPTV wins

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

One out of two new Pay-TV users in Spain sign up with Telefonica's IPTV service, Imagenio. Orange IPTV Service is the second one attracting new users with a 21% share in 2007. The table below is based on data from Spanish business newspaper, Expansion. If we classify by technology, the table ...

Broadcast Mobile TV trials in Spain

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Enrique Dans, one of the most influential bloggers in Spain, posted some interesting data about the Broadcast Mobile TV trials run by Abertis in Spain with each of the main mobile operators. Here is the translation: "There has been three trials in Spain, run by Abertis, using Nokia 7710 handsets: Telefónica in ...

iJam was not part of the 2008 keynote

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

If Apple was from Spain: http://www.ijam.es/

Music Industry subsidized by Spanish Government

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

While the worldwide music industry realizes that times have changed, and adapts to new customer habits to consume music,  the Government in Spain decided to tax electronic devices, as well as recordable DVD/CDs. The rational is that all these devices (iPods, Cameras, Copiers, etc) can be used for illegal purposes, and therefore whether you ...