Tuenti

Tuenti Technologies, S.L.U.
Company typePrivate, Limited
IndustryInternet
Software
Telecommunications
Founded22 February 2006 (2006-02-22)
Founder
Headquarters
Gran Vía, 28. Madrid, Spain.
Area served
Spain
Peru
Argentina
Ecuador
Guatemala
Key people
Pablo Ledesma (chief)
21,000,000 EUR (2014)
OwnerTelefónica
Number of employees
180 (2016, approximation)

Tuenti Technologies, S.L.U is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that operates with the Tuenti brand owned by Telefónica. It is a Spain-based tech company that focuses on providing a cloud-based services through its own application and its website to their customers.

Originally, Tuenti was created in 2006 as a social networking service, becoming the most popular social network among young people in Spain between 2009 and 2012. With over 15 million registered users,[1] Tuenti was referred to as the "Spanish Facebook".[2]

In Spain, Tuenti offered mobile telephone service. The mobile phone service in Spain was terminated on 1 June 2022. Contract customers were moved to O2 while prepaid customers were moved to Movistar.[3]

In Latin America, Tuenti ships its brand through Telefónica branches in those countries. Tuenti offers free VoIP calls and instant messaging through its own messaging app.

  1. ^ "A huge thank you to our 10 million active users and 15 million registered users!". 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015.
  2. ^ Jiménez Cano, Rosa (10 December 2007). "Tuenti, ¿el Facebook español?". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Movistar cierra Tuenti definitivamente en junio migrando los clientes a O2". BandaAncha.eu (in Spanish). 23 April 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2022.

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