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Telefónica posted a profit of €320 million in a quarter that consolidates its commitment to digitization

The company highlighted its network virtualization and softwarification process, the telco cloud and the O-RAN. The greatest operating dynamics in the April-June period were in Ultra Broadband fixed accesses and postpaid mobile accesses. Total revenues for the period amounted to US$ 10.4 billion.

Telefónica's revenues for the second quarter totaled €10,400 million, an increase of 0.8% over the same period of the previous year. The main difference compared to the balance sheet of the second quarter of 2021 is that in that period, €10,559 million were extraordinary revenues from the sale of assets in Europe and the Americas. Therefore, while the operating data for the quarter were balanced in the year-on-year comparison, the balance sheet items related to OIBDA and net income showed this difference. OIBDA totaled €3,146 million, down 76.8% year-on-year. And net income totaled €320 million in the quarter, 95.9% below that of the second quarter of 2021.

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