Telefonica Global Solutions wins two prestigious awards - Best Latin American Carrier and Best Marketing Team - at the Global Carrier Awards 2014

Madrid 6th November 2014 - Telefonica Global Solutions was presented with two prestigious awards the Best Latin American Carrier and Best Marketing Team at the Global Carrier Awards 2014 held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on the 4th November.

The Global Carrier Awards celebrate innovation, excellence and vision and set the benchmark for outstanding performance throughout the global wholesale telecoms marketplace.

Our commitment to Latin America recognises the importance of the region as a power-house of growth and innovation. The award recognises our understanding of the unique connection between the trust placed in us to achieve seamless service and the customer experience achieved for our customers' end users.

Placing the customer at the heart of what we do epitomizes our approach to delivering and continuously enhancing our wholesale service portfolio. Using our scale, expertise and deep industry insight, we will continue to devise fit-for-purpose answers to the problems every carrier faces. By fully understanding our customers' needs and ambitions, as well as as the desires and demands of retail, we will develop an ever-evolving portfolio of services, offering new opportunities to enhance what they deliver, and help build more flexibility, security, resilience and competitive advantage into their operations. 

Juan Revilla, Telefónica Global Solutions, CEO Wholesale Business Unit, commented: "We are honoured and delighted to be recognised as the leading carrier in the Latin American region.  We consider this to be important recognition of our long term investment and deep commitment to our customers in the region, which is driving the continued enhancement of our network and service portfolio, which will underpin our leadership moving into the future".

About Telefonica 

Telefonica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers. From its consolidated position in the sector, and with telephony fixed and mobile broadband as key areas that support future growth, the company focuses its strategy on securing its leadership in the digital world. Present in 24 countries and with a customer base of more than 320 million customers, Telefonica has a strong presence in Europe and Latin America, important industrial alliances and a leading global scale which positions the company to capture growth opportunities. Telefonica is a fully publicly traded company with more than 1.5 million direct stakeholders and its ordinary shares are traded in various stock markets, including London and New York among others.

Telefonica Global Solutions manages globally the multinational, wholesale and roaming business within the Telefonica Group. Global Solutions delivers integrated fixed, mobile and IT services to some of the world's top multinationals and corporations. It also provides global telecommunication services for fixed and mobile carriers, ISPs and content providers. Telefonica Global Solutions develops an integrated and competitive portfolio for carriers and corporations that include international voice, IP, bandwidth capacity, satellite services, mobility and global solutions, with service reach in more than 170 countries. Global Solutions is a multicultural organisation, with more than 1400 employees, working in over 40 countries and speaking more than 15 languages.

Press contacts:

Telefonica Global Solutions

Corporate Communications

Rafael Serrano

Tel: +44 (0)1753565711

Email: Rafa.serrano@telefonica.com

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