In a piece of news showing that Motorola is doing better business with its networking division than with its handset branch, the American company announced that it had helped Telefónica, the largest mobile carrier in Spain, to improve its GSM network and services across the European country.

Thanks to Motorola's solutions, which are deployed following a two-year deal between Moto and the Spanish carrier, the subscribers of Telefónica now have improved and extended network coverage. Moreover, there has been a significant reduction in dropped calls, this leading to a better mobile experience.

Daniel Paul, radio access network director at Telefónica, stated about the company's collaboration with Moto: "Our relationship with Motorola spans almost 20 years so they have a clear understanding of our business. By using Motorola's managed optimization services we can achieve the best possible quality of service to provide our customers, with the most advanced technologies, which allows us to concentrate on other aspects such as the modernization of functions and services which helps enrich our offerings to our clients."

Eric Pradier, vice president Global Services, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility EMEA, added: "By capitalizing on Motorola's many years of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining high-quality mobile networks, operators like Telefónica can focus on their core business initiatives and serving the customer demands. By enhancing the overall network performance and offering flexible managed services business models that deliver measurable results, Motorola enables operators to introduce new services as well as the provision of a robust, dependable network to accelerate the delivery of personal media experiences to their customers."

Operating under the movistar name, Telefónica currently has more than 23 million Spanish mobile users, being way ahead of Vodafone and Orange in terms of subscriber number (the V carrier has 15.5 million users while Orange only attracted 11 million). Telefónica and movistar are present in lots of other countries besides Spain, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela.