Companies will work together to power transformative customer experiences and services and explore use of intelligent technologies on the network Barcelona, S pain — Feb. 25, 2019 — On Monday at Mobile World Congress, Telefónica and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on projects to accelerate Telefónica innovation and transform the telecommunications industry. Building on Telefónica and Microsoft’s previous work together around the use of data and Telefónica’s Fourth Platform to power offerings such as Aura, its AI-powered digital assistant, the new agreement will combine the power of Telefónica’s state-of-the-art networks, unique customer proposition and global reach with the Microsoft Azure AI platform to design services telcos will offer in the future. “Telefónica has been a leader in using AI to transform customer engagement, and the strategic partnership we announced today builds on this history of innovation,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft....