ezetop and Telefónica enter a partnership to provide mobile recharge services from Europe to Movistar customers in Latin America
Movistar mobile phones across LATAM can now be topped up from the EU via ezetop retail locations
Madrid: 8th June, 2012 –Telefónica, one of the world‘s leading integrated telecommunications operators, has extended the existing partnership with ezetop, the leading international recharge group to enable anyone from Europe, especially the Latin American immigrant community, to recharge their friends and family´s Movistar mobile phones in Latin America. This service will be provided by ezetop distribution network which includes more than 117,000 shops.
ezetop provides mobile phone top up services to more than 211 mobile operators around the world including the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Asia, allowing Diaspora communities to support their loved ones at home in a very practical way- directly recharging their mobile phones.
Zurine Alvarez, Global Account Head at ezetop said: “We are delighted to extend the partnership between ezetop and Telefónica. We have been working together with the Telefónica teams in Madrid and Latin America for several years now to get the international recharges to be very successful. We are delighted to have been chosen to provide this service from Europe and allow not only the immigrant community in the US but also in Europe to recharge instantly Movistar mobiles phones across Latin America.”
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Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalization and number of customers. From this outstanding position in the industry, and with its mobile, fixed and broadband businesses as the key drivers of its growth, Telefónica has focused its strategy on becoming a leading company in the digital world.
The company has a significant presence in 25 countries and a customer base that amounts more than 309 million accesses around the world. Telefónica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, where the company focuses an important part of its growth strategy.
Telefónica is a 100% listed company, with more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its share capital currently comprises 4.479.787.122 ordinary shares traded on the Spanish Stock Market (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia) and on those in London, New York, Lima, and Buenos Aires.
ezetop enables people living or working abroad to instantly top up mobile phones of friends and family back home.
Services are available from more than 450,000 retail stores in 20 countries, as well as online and on mobile phones through www.ezetop.com. ezetop’s online technology powers websites worldwide through its white-label service for operators and the ezetop Partner Network which enables any website owner to sell top up online.
ezetop’s services benefit mobile operators as they generate additional revenue outside their domestic market. Today ezetop offers direct connections to more than 211 international mobile operators across Asia Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Central/Latin America and Eastern Europe and is continually adding new operators each month. Existing operators include Airtel, Claro, C&W, Dialog Telecom, Digicel, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, LIME, MTN, Orange, Orascom, Reliance, Roshan, Singtel, SMART, Telcel, Telefonica, Telenor, Comcel, Ufone, Vodafone, Warid, Zong and others.
ezetop’s group headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland with regional headquarters in Miami, Barcelona, Dubai, Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur.
