12 Facts About Tuenti

Tuenti Technologies, S L U is a mobile virtual network operator that operates with the Tuenti brand owned by Telefonica.

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.

Tuenti was founded as a Social networking service in 2006 by a group of friends in Spain.

Tuenti launched its mobile operator brand in Mexico, Peru and Argentina in 2014.

Tuenti has completely transformed its business from a social network to a mobile telecommunications provider.

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Tuenti was already part of the mobile operator team for a long time before.

Tuenti launched Tu as a developing project in 2010 supported by Telefonica, which was the largest shareholder back then, aiming to have influence in the young market that the social network had at that time.

One year later, Tuenti announced a better integration between Tuenti Movil and the social network thanks to its mobile application which included the ability to manage various of the MVNO services and the release of new plans that came with free usage of the social network, making chatting, sharing and doing VoIP calls within the platform totally free of charge or data quota consumption.

Sebastian Muriel, CEO of Tuenti, claimed in an interview that the results of the brand in Mexico were not as good as expected due to the monopolistic situation of telephony market.

Tuenti replaced the brand "Quam", owned by Telefonica on November 18,2014.

Tuenti was once the most popular social network in Spain and it featured all the tools common to social-networking sites.

Unlike similar social networking sites which feature banner advertisements, Tuenti opted out of these traditional forms of obstructive and invasive advertising, in order to respect the privacy of the user.