Category Archives: Spain

Telefonica Impressive Performance and Spanish Telecos

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Martin Varsavsky on Web 2.0 Expo

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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. … Continue reading →

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Pay-TV Market in Spain: IPTV wins

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Broadcast Mobile TV trials in Spain

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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iJam was not part of the 2008 keynote

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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

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Music Industry subsidized by Spanish Government

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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, … Continue reading →

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