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| Company type | Private, Limited |
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| Industry | Internet Software Telecommunications |
| Founded | 22 February 2006 |
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| Headquarters | |
Area served | Spain Peru Argentina Ecuador Guatemala |
Key people | Pablo Ledesma (chief) |
| 21,000,000 EUR (2014) | |
| Owner | Telefónica |
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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Jiménez Cano, Rosa (10 December 2007). "Tuenti, ¿el Facebook español?". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "Movistar cierra Tuenti definitivamente en junio migrando los clientes a O2". BandaAncha.eu (in Spanish). 23 April 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2022.