Telefónica and Sunrise Communications AG enter into a broad partnership agreement.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Madrid, Spain & Zürich, Switzerland, September 27th 2011 –Telefónica and Swiss mobile and fixed operator Sunrise today jointly announced that Sunrise will join the Telefónica Partners Program. The Program will allow Sunrise to leverage on Telefónica’s scale and to cooperate on key business topics. The partnership will allow both companies to capture additional efficiencies while enhancing service offerings to their respective customers.

By entering into this partnership, Sunrise will be able to access a set of services that will make some of Telefónica Group's scale benefits available to Sunrise. 

The companies agreed to cooperate under the framework of Telefónica Partners Program in the following areas: the possibility of conducting procurement of network equipment, IT and devices, among others, through TGS, Telefónica’s global procurement services unit; the provision of services to multinationals companies. 

 Both companies will also explore collaboration opportunities in other areas such as Telefónica’s innovative products and services to capture growth opportunities of the digital world and international capacity and wholesale services. The partnership is effective immediately.

By accessing Telefónica’s capabilities and scale, it is expected that Sunrise will increase its competitiveness and reinforce its ability to accelerate growth in its market. 'We are delighted of having Sunrise, a leading operator in the Swiss market, joining Telefónica’s Partner Program', said Mario Martin, Telefónica’s Director of Strategic Alliances and Industrial Partnerships, 'and we are committed to jointly work to take advantage of our complementarity and Telefónica’s reach and scale benefits as well as leading innovation on the digital world'.

 Commenting on the partnership, Oliver Steil, CEO of Sunrise Communications AG, said that !Maintaining our high pace of technological improvement is one reason for this collaboration. As revenue from voice traffic declines and demand for data delivery at home and on mobile devices jumps, large investments are planned to complete infrastructure such as high- speed mobile-phone networks or fiber-optic technology.

 This deal gets many benefits for both companies whilst ensuring quality for our customers.

The Telefónica Partners Program is an initiative that makes available to selected operators and under commercial terms a host of services that allows partners to be supported by Telefónica’s scale and knowledge.

Sunrise

Sunrise is the largest private telecommunications provider in Switzerland, with offices in Zurich, Bern, Biel/Bienne, and Renens. Sunrise has 2.95 million customers, who use its services in the areas of mobile telephony, landline network, and the Internet. Business Sunrise offers customized communication solutions for business customers. The mobile network, which is based on GSM, EDGE, UMTS, and HSPA+ technologies, provides over 99% of the population with state-of-the-art mobile network services and permits transfer rates of up to 21 Mbps. A high-performance fiber optic network, with a total length of 10,000 km, enables high-quality voice and data services to be offered throughout the country. Thanks to unbundling, Sunrise can reach 85% of all households with its own broadband structure and operates 90 Sunrise centers across Switzerland. Sunrise is a brand of Sunrise Communications AG.

Telefónica

Telefónica is one of the world's largest telecommunications network operators by market capitalisation and number of customers. It centres its activities mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses, while its broadband business is the key growth driver underpinning both.  It operates in 25 countries and its customer base exceeds 295 million globally. Telefónica has a strong foothold in Spain, Europe and Latin America, the latter region being the lynchpin of its growth strategy.

Telefónica is a 100% private company with more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its share  capital consists of 4,563,996,485 ordinary shares traded on the Spanish stock exchanges (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia), as well as on the London, Tokyo, New York, Lima, Buenos Aires  and São Paulo stock exchanges.

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Telefonica partners with Boku to support in-app purchases.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Telefonica announced the launch of an in-app payment API for members of its BlueVia developer community, which will enable the creation of apps which support in-app operator billing. The company is working with m-payment specialist Boku to deliver the capabilities, stating that “developers will be able to implement in-app purchasing within minutes.” In a statement, it was said that the launch reinforces BlueVia’s “mission to find new ways for developers to monetise their ideas.”

The operator group is working with Boku, due to its “bank grade mobile payments technology” which, in addition to providing developers with another potential revenue stream, is also said to deliver a better user experience for users. It said that “for Telefonica customers, it means there will be fewer barriers to making in-app purchases, delivering a further boost to developer bottom lines.” The system is said to present developers with “a single contract, a single API and a single set of rules,” making it easier to add in-app billing to software.

According to Jose Valles, head of BlueVia, “in-app payment is a hot topic within the developer community, as all the research suggests it can have a high positive impact on revenue. Mobile operator billing offers a way to charge for goods and services using financial relationships that in some markets are more prevalent than credit cards.”

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Telefonica BlueVia developer platform launches in Germany

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Telefonica opened its BlueVia developer platform in Germany, stating that “software companies in Germany can register as a developer for BlueVia and O2 customers can download the first BlueVia apps on their smartphones.”

 The operator will give developers a share of the revenue generated by the addition of network features into apps, for example via SMS or MMS integration, which could be “as much as 20 percent,” in addition to the standard revenue share for app sales. Michiel van Eldik (pictured), MD of Wholesale and Partner Management at Telefonica Germany, said: “With BlueVia, software developers can develop smartphone apps as well as web services and desktop applications, and soon they'll be able to offer them to most of the 295 million Telefonica customers worldwide.”

The operator said that the first BlueVia apps for desktop, the web and smartphones are already appearing, for example via the Android Market and Windows Phone 7. It notes that the integration of network service into apps is “recommended for smaller companies in particular,” because larger developers have already been able to access mobile operator services via other interfaces. In order to do this, however, “long-term contracts and a sizeable minimum volume were required when sending SMS, for example.” 

Through the launch of BlueVia, small developers and individuals can use the same services “without any complications.”

Telefonica Germany said that in “just a few weeks” it will be providing “even more” interfaces for its network. It highlighted that in addition to app sales, developers can “achieve additional sales for many years” through the use of SMS messages, advertising in apps, and other Telefonica-derived earnings.

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Telefónica will market and incorporate Microsoft Office 365 to its Unified Communications platform.

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Telefonica and Microsoft have signed an agreement to jointly develop the market for unified communications in large companies and public administrations

He is a strategic alliance that combines the leading innovation of Microsoft IT and the communications services Telephone


Office Phone 365-marketed and incorporate Microsoft Lync its Unified Communications platform

-The agreement will help large companies and governments to evolve their traditional communications environments and to maximize the efficiencies of the new collaboration tools

Madrid, July 6, 2011 .- Telefónica and Microsoft just make a new step in their collaboration to jointly develop the market for Unified Communications. Both companies, which share the same mission focused on improving the lives of people and help develop business, had long been providing innovative services based on Information Technologies and Communication.

By signing this agreement, which is applicable in the context of large corporations and government, both companies' solutions together to provide greater customer value. Telefonica's extensive knowledge of their communications services, along with Microsoft's experience in the section Information Technology, resulting in a differential value proposition for this particular market segment.

While there was agreement between the two companies signed in 2008, the development of technology and social relations in recent years have changed the way in which working groups communicate, revolutionizing the relationship between companies, customers and suppliers. Products Unified Communications Microsoft has been adapting to this new reality, using all the collaboration capabilities in the most effective, while services and personalized management of Telefónica have proved the perfect complement to get the first peak potential.

Because the agreement is renewed on three fundamental points.

Firstly, Telefónica, one step further with the signing of the agreement for the marketing of Office 365, suite of cloud services, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online, which allows users to work anytime and anywhere, improving productivity of companies. It also incorporates Microsoft Lync as a platform for unified communications services, with which Telefónica approached from two years ago, the evolution of communication environments more traditional corporations. Telefónica has been marketing Microsoft products, such as OCS (Office Communication Suite) or Exchange, adding capabilities such as management or accommodation. This new marketing agreement and Microsoft Office 365 Lync is a step in its corporate communications strategy

The second remarkable point of agreement has to do with the patch that Microsoft has in the last year of mobile operating system, your Windows Phone 7. Telefónica is the first operator in Spain to offer phones with this new operating system, you're getting an excellent response from corporate clients, press and analysts. Phone Windows 7 is the result of an ambitious effort to provide a different phone, since it is a smartphone designed to be used in both the personal and professional and offers the best mobile access to Microsoft collaboration applications .

The third element of this agreement is the design and implementation of a joint commercial approach to clients of both companies to draw, client to client, a strategy for the development of its transport communications to large corporations and public bodies worldwide as a new paradigm that makes the partnership a substantial element of their communications.

In short, this agreement, which takes on the dimension of a strategic partnership reinforces both companies approach the market and a guarantee of success. And now is the time, the technology is mature and who better than Telefónica and Microsoft to help big companies and governments extract real and tangible results of the implementation of our joint proposal of Unified Communications services

Microsoft Ibérica (Spain)
Microsoft Ibérica's Spanish subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to help both the development of talented people and the business potential of increasing their efficiency, productivity and competitiveness. For more information, visit their web pages in Spanish http://www.microsoft.es

About Telefónica
Telefónica, headed by Cesar Alierta, is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world by market capitalization and number of customers. It focuses primarily on business fixed telephony and mobile telephony, with broadband as the key tool for the development of both. It operates in 25 countries and has a customer base of 268 million accesses around the world. Telefonica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America where the company focuses an important part of its growth strategy. Telefónica is a listed company. It has more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its share capital currently is divided into 4,563,996,485 ordinary shares traded on the continuous market on the Spanish stock exchanges (Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao and Valencia) and the London, Tokyo, New York, Lima, Buenos Aires São Paulo.

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Telefónica comercializará Office 365 e incorporará Microsoft Lync a su plataforma de Comunicaciones Unificadas.

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Telefónica y Microsoft firman un acuerdo para desarrollar conjuntamente el mercado de las Comunicaciones Unificadas en grandes empresas y administraciones públicas.

-Se trata de una alianza estratégica que aúna el liderazgo en innovación de Microsoft en TI y el de Telefónica en servicios de comunicaciones

-Telefónica comercializará Office 365 e incorporará Microsoft Lync a su plataforma de Comunicaciones Unificadas

-El acuerdo ayudará a grandes empresas y administraciones a evolucionar sus entornos de comunicaciones tradicionales y aprovechar al máximo las eficiencias de las nuevas herramientas de colaboración 

Madrid, 06 de julio  de 2011.- Telefónica y Microsoft acaban de dar un nuevo paso adelante en su colaboración, para desarrollar conjuntamente el mercado de las Comunicaciones Unificadas. Ambas compañías, que comparten una misma misión enfocada en mejorar la vida de las personas y ayudar al desarrollo de los negocios, vienen proporcionando desde tiempo atrás servicios innovadores, basados en las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación.

Con la firma de este acuerdo, que tiene su aplicación en el marco de las grandes corporaciones y Administraciones Públicas, las soluciones de ambas compañías se unen para proporcionar un mayor valor al cliente. El amplio conocimiento de Telefónica en sus servicios de comunicaciones, junto con la experiencia de Microsoft en el apartado de las Tecnologías de la Información, dan como resultado una propuesta de valor diferencial para este particular segmento del mercado.

Aunque existía un acuerdo previo entre ambas compañías, firmado en 2008, el desarrollo de la tecnología y de las relaciones sociales en estos últimos años, han cambiado la manera en la que los grupos de trabajo se comunican, revolucionando las relaciones entre empresas, clientes y proveedores. Los productos de Comunicaciones Unificadas de Microsoft se han ido adaptando a esta nueva realidad, utilizando todas las capacidades de colaboración de la manera más eficaz, mientras que los servicios y gestión personalizada de Telefónica han demostrado ser el complemento perfecto para sacar a los primeros su máximo potencial.

Como consecuencia se renueva el acuerdo en tres puntos fundamentales.

En primer lugar, Telefónica, da un paso más allá con la firma del acuerdo para la comercialización de Office 365, suite de servicios en la nube que incluye Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online y Microsoft Lync Online, que permite a los usuarios trabajar en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar, mejorando la productividad de las compañías.  

Asimismo incorpora Microsoft Lync como plataforma de sus servicios de Comunicaciones Unificadas, con las que Telefónica aborda desde dos años atrás la  evolución de los entornos de comunicación más tradicionales de las corporaciones. Telefónica ya ha venido comercializando  productos de Microsoft, tales como  OCS (Office Communication Suite) o Exchange, incorporando capacidades  como la gestión o el alojamiento. Este nuevo acuerdo de  comercialización de Office 365 y Microsoft Lync supone un paso adelante en su estrategia de comunicaciones corporativas.

El segundo punto destacable del acuerdo tiene que ver con la revisión que Microsoft ha hecho en el último año del sistema operativo para dispositivos móviles, su Windows Phone 7. Telefónica ha sido el primer operador en ofrecer en España teléfonos con este nuevo sistema operativo, que está obteniendo una excelente respuesta por parte de clientes corporativos, prensa y analistas. Windows Phone 7 es el resultado de un ambicioso esfuerzo por ofrecer un teléfono distinto, ya que se trata de un smartphone diseñado para ser utilizado tanto en el ámbito personal como en el profesional y que ofrece el mejor acceso móvil a las aplicaciones de colaboración de Microsoft.

El tercer elemento de este acuerdo, es el diseño y la ejecución de un acercamiento comercial conjunto a los clientes de ambas compañías para trazar, cliente a cliente, una estrategia para la evolución de sus comunicaciones que transporte a las grandes corporaciones y a los organismos públicos de todo el mundo hasta un nuevo paradigma que haga de la colaboración el elemento sustancial de sus comunicaciones.

En definitiva, este acuerdo, que adquiere la dimensión de una gran alianza estratégica, refuerza la aproximación de ambas compañías al mercado y constituye una garantía de éxito. Y es que ahora es el momento, la tecnología está madura y nadie mejor que Telefónica y Microsoft para conseguir que las grandes empresas y las administraciones públicas extraigan resultados reales y tangibles de la implantación de nuestra propuesta conjunta de servicios de Comunicaciones Unificadas.

Microsoft Ibérica

Microsoft Ibérica es subsidiaria española de Microsoft Corporation. Fundada en 1975, Microsoft es el líder mundial de software para informática personal y de empresas. La compañía ofrece un amplio abanico de productos y servicios diseñados para contribuir  tanto al  desarrollo del talento de las personas como al potencial de las empresas aumentando así su eficacia, productividad y capacidad competitiva. Para más información, puede visitar sus páginas españolas en Internet en http://www.microsoft.es

About Telefónica

Telefónica, presidida por César Alierta, es una de las mayores compañías de telecomunicaciones del mundo por capitalización bursátil y número de clientes. Su actividad se centra fundamentalmente en los negocios de telefonía fija y telefonía móvil, con la banda ancha como herramienta clave para el desarrollo de ambos negocios. Está presente en 25 países y cuenta con una base de clientes de 268 millones de accesos en todo el mundo. Telefónica tiene una fuerte presencia en España, Europa y Latinoamérica, donde la compañía concentra, fundamentalmente, su estrategia de crecimiento. Telefónica es una empresa totalmente privada. Cuenta con más de 1,5 millones de accionistas directos. Su capital social está dividido en la actualidad en 4.563.996.485 acciones ordinarias que cotizan en el mercado continuo de las bolsas españolas (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao y Valencia) y en las bolsas de Londres, Tokio, Nueva York, Lima, Buenos Aires y São Paulo.

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