Telefonica plugs in and switches on

1987 - Year of the shrinking market?

 1987 – Year of the shrinking market?

Telefonica, the most widely traded stock on the Madrid Stock Exchange, with a fifth of all daily transactions, needs an international investor base to feed its $7 billion four-year investment programme.

As the first part of a plan to extend the telecommunications network throughout Spain, it is investing $47.2 million in a research centre outside Madrid.

It has also set up a subsidiary in the US to market a switching system, one of its rare in-house products.

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