TECHNOLOGY technical platforms and processes at Telefónica Deutschland ,” says CTO Cayetano Carbajo .
Since it entered the German market in 2005 with the acquisition of O2 , Telefónica has made rapid strides in the market and now offers mobile and fixed , voice and data services for private and business customers . With a total of 48.6 million customer accesses , the company is one of the three leading integrated telecommunications providers in Germany . In the mobile segment alone , Telefónica Deutschland is responsible for more than 43.3 million accesses – making it the German market leader .
So this has been a busy time for its Chief Technical Officer ( CTO ) since his appointment in 2014 . Cayetano Carbajo moved to Munich from Madrid , where he spent the previous decade as Technical Director at Telefónica ’ s headquarters : before that he was CTO in Mexico , where he created the company ’ s GSM network in that country by amalgamating two pre-existing CDMA networks . All in all he has been with the company for 21 years .
For Carbajo , Germany is the ideal environment for an engineer . “ We engineers tend to be well ordered people , with a clear view of processes , and that definitely fits the German national character .” Nevertheless we shouldn ’ t make too much of this , he says . Most of the work he has been leading his team ( he oversees a 1,300 strong networking ‘ family ’ spread across Germany ) into doing here is unmapped territory . Certainly the www . telefonica . de 37