R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, S.A. is a Spanish telecommunications company that offers fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in Galicia, Spain.

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Trade name	R
Formerly	R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, S.A.
Company type	Sociedad anónima unipersonal
Industry	Telecommunications, Media
Founded	A Coruña, Spain (1999; 25 years ago (1999))
Headquarters	A Coruña , Spain
Area served	Galicia
Key people	Arturo Dopico, CEO
Services	Digital television, broadband Internet, fixed-line telephone, mobile telephony as MVNO
Owner	Euskaltel, S.A.
Number of employees	200 [citation needed]
Website	mundo-r.com

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In 1998, when the telecommunication industry was liberalized,^[jargon] Galicia, Spain adjudicated^[jargon] a contest to deploy wire in the area. At stake in the contest were three territorial demarcations: A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and the rest of Galicia. The contracts for the three demarcations were won by the Galician Group of Companies for the Wire, Group Wire S.A.^{[citation needed]} The two group companies would later merge to form R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia,^[1] S.A. when the demarcations were consolidated administratively.^{[citation needed]}

During 2006, R expanded its geographic operations, offering direct access services to small areas in Galicia such as Monforte de Lemos, Sarria, Sada, O Porriño and A Laracha. R also established agreements with other municipal councils like Xove, Burela, Vilalba, Ribadeo and Viveiro.

R provides television, broadband Internet, and mobile telephony services to over 820,000 homes and companies in the Galicia region. The television service brings over a hundred channels to customers with the related signal decoder. It includes Oriel, a pay television service where customers can order films, sports programming, and television series. For customers without the signal decoder, R provides about two dozen channels. R also provides TDT channels and other channels for those with the DVB-C cable reception system. For Internet service, R offers various speed packages from 3Mbit/s to 100Mbit/s.^{[note 1]} R was one of first operators to offer 100 Mbit/s asymmetric speeds in Spain.^{[citation needed]} On 20 November 2007, the eighth anniversary of the company, R launched a mobile telephony service as a Mobile virtual network operator (i.e. it uses the antenna network of another company). The service went live on 3 December, and has garnered 190,000 customers.^{[citation needed]}

R has had numerous changes in ownership, including 25 major shareholding exchanges.^{[citation needed]} One of its most important changes was in September 2008, when Caixanova, NCG Banco's predecessor, bought the 35.44% held by Unión Fenosa (which was acquired by Gas Natural), which gave Caixanova a 66.24% share.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2010, British private equity firm CVC Capital Partners acquired a 35% stake in R.^[1][2] In November, CVC exercised an option to increase its stake to 70%^[3] in an agreement in which the current shareholders looked for "to guarantee the future of the Galicia City of the project, keeping its current social headquarters".^{[need quotation to verify]} In February 2014, CVC acquired the remaining 30% of the stock from NCG Banco.^{[4][5][better source needed]} In November 2015, Euskaltel acquired R.

• A Mundo-R telephone booth in Vigo.

• Cogent Communications
• Euskaltel — Basque telecommunications company, owner of R
• Tata Communications
• Telecable — Asturian telecommunications company, also subsidiary of Euskaltel