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MADRID, 6 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -
Ono has withdrawn the conflict against Telefónica that it presented at the end of last year before the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) after both companies agreed to an extension in the contract that allows the firm chaired by José María Castellano to provide mobile service to its fixed customers through the network of its rival, as reported by market sources to Europa Press.
These sources have explained that, once this agreement has been reached in the virtual mobile operator (MVNO) contract that Ono maintains with Telefónica, the operator has sent a letter to the CMT withdrawing this conflict, with which it is expected that in a few weeks the regulatory body will send a new resolution nullifying the precautionary measures that weighed on the incumbent operator.
The new agreement will last two and a half years and will allow Ono to continue accessing the Telefónica network, which it has used since 2007, as explained on Monday by the newspaper 'Expansión', which advances the news about the recently agreed pact between both companies.
In March, Ono surpassed the 500,000 active customers of its mobile service, which allows the company to offer converged fixed and mobile products. According to the company's data, in twelve months, the operator captured 322,000 new mobile services, which represents an increase of 160%.
The discrepancies between Ono and Telefónica regarding the OMV contract date back to last summer, when Telefónica informed Ono that it would not renew the contract, which ended in February 2013, under the same conditions.
Ono, not receiving a proposal with the new conditions that would allow it to maintain the contract, decided last November to appeal to the regulatory body, which at the beginning of the year adopted a precautionary measure by which it obliged Telefónica to continue giving wholesale access to its mobile network to Ono under the "same conditions" provided for in the contract signed between both companies in March 2007.
