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Telefonica acquires stake in Brazilian cable TV operator TVA

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Telefonica, via its Brazilian subsidiary Telesp, has acquired a controlling stake in domestic cable TV operator TVA Sistema de Televisao.

Telefonica acquired a 49 percent TVA stake from Lemontree, the company that owns 80.1 percent of the shares of TVA. Telefonica thus completes the TVA acquisition, started back in 2007 with the purchase of TVA’s MMDS operation.

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Telefónica announced integration of fixed and mobile businesses in the country

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Telefónica group has announced the integration of fixed and mobile businesses in the country, which will account for synergies varying between €3.3 billion and €4.2 billion once operations are consolidated. In a release to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM), the company has also confirmed that it will submit a public offering for Vivo’s common shares not belonging to Brasilcel, and that account for almost 3.8% of Vivo Participaciones share stock, operation that should be completed by February 2011.

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Telefonica to invest USD $2.77 billion in Brazil in 2010

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Telefonica SA  plans to invest 5 billion Brazilian reals ($2.77 billion) in Brazil this year in both fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, the company’s Latin America head Jose Maria Alvarez Pallete said Wednesday.

In a meeting with journalists and business leaders, Pallete added that Telefonica had invested a total of EUR90 billion in all of Latin America since it began operations in the region in the 1990s.

Telefonica owns Brazilian fixed-line operator Telecomunicações de São Paulo S.A. (Telesp) and shares control of mobile operator Vivo Participacoes SA with Portugal Telecom.

In 2009, Telefonica invested BRL3.4 billion in Brazil.

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Ericsson wins managed services contract at Telefonica Brazil

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Ericsson has signed a managed services partnership with Telecomunicações de São Paulo S.A. (Telesp) in Brazil. Under the terms of the contract, Ericsson will operate Telefonica’s network operations centre (NOC) in Sao Paulo.

 The three-year deal also includes core, transmission and ADSL networks. Additionally, Ericsson will be responsible for spare parts management. This contract extends the managed services contract signed between Ericsson and Telefonica Brazil in 2008, when Ericsson was selected to operate and maintain a new multivendor optical fibre network in the Sao Paulo state.

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