For Telefonica of Spain and France Telecom , that means more regulatory headaches, but for BT Group, which sold its cellphone division to its Spanish rival in 2005, being a purely fixed line operator suddenly seems much more attractive.
Tizen has pursued carrier support very strongly and its Board features several of the largest carrier groups globally, and more importantly, in several leading countries, the biggest carrier domestically, like NTT DoCoMo in Japan, SK Telecom in South Korea, Telefonica in Spain etc.
Telefonica has moved into Spain's television industry a move that, not coincidentally, has helped Mr Aznar.
NTT, Deutsche Telekom and Spain's Telefonica are also said to have been sniffing around.
Argentina's two main phone firms are owned by Spain's Telefonica and an alliance of Telecom Italia and France Telecom.
Demand for additional fixed lines in home markets is slowing (Telefonica added only 3m in Spain between 1997 and 2004).
Official 2012 Olympic communications services provider Vodafone, O2, owned by Spain's Telefonica, and BT said they had not seen any network problems.
Spain's Telefonica has said that Europe's 3G standards do not allow a system that is stable or cheap enough to compete with existing technologies.
The proposed changes could have a significant impact on large European telecom companies, such as Spain's Telefonica, Germany's Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, said Global Insight analyst Emeka Obiodu.
The cache of devices, including the iPhone 5, were pinched from an outlet for O2, which is owned by Spain's Telefonica SA early in the morning, the local police said.
And in this his job will have been made no easier by the revelation on June 30th that Martin Bangemann, a German who is the departing telecoms commissioner, had accepted a job at Spain's Telefonica, which he has been responsible for regulating.
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However, his biggest aim has been to redefine Telefonica's market from the 40m people who live in Spain to the 400m or so who speak either Spanish or Portuguese.
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