Announcement of Periodic Review: Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of Telefonica S.A. Madrid, February 10, 2020 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has completed a periodic review of the ratings of Telefonica S.A. and other ratings that are associated with the same analytical unit. The review was conducted through a portfolio review in which Moody's reassessed the appropriateness of the ratings in the context of the relevant principal methodology(ies), recent developments, and a comparison of the financial and operating profile to similarly rated peers....

Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today assigned a Ba2 rating to Telefonica Europe B.V.'s proposed issuance of undated, deeply subordinated, guaranteed fixed rate reset securities (the "hybrid debt"), which are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Telefonica S.A. (Telefonica) on a subordinated basis. "The Ba2 rating assigned to the hybrid debt is two notches below Telefonica's senior unsecured rating, of Baa3, primarily because the instrument is deeply subordinated to other debt in the company's capital structure," says Carlos Winzer, a Moody's Senior Vice President and lead analyst for Telefonica....

Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today downgraded Tele Columbus AG's (Tele Columbus) corporate family rating (CFR) to B3 from B2, probability of default rating (PDR) to B3-PD from B2-PD, and the instrument rating on the senior secured bank credit facilities and senior secured notes to B3 from B2. At the same time, Moody's has changed the outlook to stable from negative on all ratings....

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When José María Álvarez-Pallete returned to Europe in 2012 after almost a decade in Latin America, he calculated that during that time he had spent 679 nights asleep on a plane jetting between Telefónica’s Madrid headquarters and its far-flung network of businesses stretching from Mexico to Patagonia. Telefónica had spent more than $100bn expanding across the continent but the geographically huge business accounted for only a quarter of the Spanish company’s revenue. Mr Álvarez-Pallete held his nerve and went ahead with a $9.5bn acquisition of BellSouth’s South American operations in 2004, outbidding billionaire Carlos Slim....

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Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") has today assigned a first-time B1 Corporate Family Rating ("CFR") and a B1-PD Probability of Default Rating ("PDR") to Masmovil Ibercom, S.A. ("Masmovil"). Concurrently, Moody's has assigned a B1 rating to the E1,450 million senior secured Term Loan B due in 2026, the E100 million senior secured revolving credit facility due in 2024 and the E150 million senior secured Capex facility due in 2024 and raised by MasMovil Holdphone S.A.U. (100% subsidiary of Masmovil). "The B1 rating reflects Masmovil's success as the fourth largest telecommunications company in Spain, consistently growing revenues at double-digit rates and achieving a market share of close to 16% in residential mobile and 8% in the residential fixed segment since its creation in 2006," says Carlos Winzer, Moody's Senior Vice President, and lead analyst for Masmovil....

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