A year ago, Telefónica created Telxius, which would manage almost 16,000 telecommunications towers in five countries - Germany, Spain, Brazil, Peru and Chile - 65,000 kilometers of submarine fiber optics (31,000 of them owned by the company) and future projects such as cable BRUSA, an 11,000 kms laying to join Brazil, Puerto Rico and the United States as from 2018, and the MAREA, between the United States and Europe in collaboration with Google and Facebook.