During the second quarter of 2007 the Telefónica Group reported continued growth, especially in wireless and broadband, ending the period with 212.6 million accesses, 11.3% more than a year earlier.
Telefónica ended June with 9.1 million retail broadband accesses (+34.9%), 154.9 million mobile accesses (+15.1%) and over 1.3 million pay TV accesses (+64.5%).
Telefónica España currently boasts 45.2 million accesses, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year.
The total number accesses in Telefónica Latinoamérica continued to register a strong growth (+13.9% year-on-year to 121.8 million) thanks to the solid increase in the broadband segment and a robust mobile market.
Telefónica O2 Europe, which continues to focus its efforts on capturing and retention the value customers, saw its total accesses advance 7.4% to 39.8 million.
The company ended June with over 4.2 million retail broadband accesses in Spain (+30.4% year-on-year), 4.4 million in Latin America (+36.8% year-on-year) and 0.5 million in Europe (+60.9% year-on-year) after posting net adds in the second quarter of 206,000, 335,000 and 35,000 respectively.
Pay TV accesses at the end of the quarter 2007 totaled 1.3 million, 64.5% more than a year before, with operations in Spain, the Czech Republic, Peru, Chile and Colombia.
Telefónica España contributed the most to consolidated Group revenues, accounting for 36.6%. In the first semester of 2007, revenues at Telefónica España topped EUR 10,191 million, 5.4% higher than in the same period in 2006, building on the growth seen in the previous quarter.
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