Telefonica Logo — Telefónica SA (IBEX 35: TEF, Madrid Stock Exchange Ticker: TEF) is an operating company of telecommunications services (fixed telephony, mobile telephony and ADSL) multinational with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, and as of July 2010 is the fifth telecommunications company in size and importance in the world.
Telefónica is one of the leading integrated telecommunications operators worldwide in providing solutions for communication, information and entertainment, with presence in Europe, Africa, Latin America and since 2010 in Asia. In Spain, public retail distributes its products through various subsidiaries and several trade names: The fixed telephony under the brand before Telefónica, the mobile phone through Telefónica Móviles subsidiary under the Movistar brand. From May 1, 2010, the company changed in Spain the name of your trademark by Movistar Telefonica, which until then had been only the trademark of Telefónica Móviles, beginning to distribute all its products under the brand name and adding by service for the suffixes “Movistar Fixed”, “Movistar Mobile”, “Movistar Imagenio” etc.. However, the legal names of companies and their subsidiaries remain the same.