Telefonica Reaches 260 Million Customers Worldwide
October 30 2009 - 5:32AM
Dow Jones News
Telefonica SA (TEF) has more than 260 million customers
worldwide, the company's Chairman Cesar Alierta said Friday in a
conference with telecommunications companies.
The Madrid-based telecommunications company had 242.2 million
customers at the end of June, the company said at the time.
Telefonica, Spain's largest telecommunications company by market
value and customers, has the bulk of its operations in Europe and
Latin America.
The company also has roughly an 8% stake in China Unicom (Hong
Kong) Ltd. (0762.HK).
Company Web site: www.telefonica.com
-By Jason Sinclair, Dow Jones Newswires, 34 913958127,
jason.sinclair@dowjones.com