For Spain the new alliance is also very important. However, it is not the only change which took place in Spanish telecommunications very recently, a sector full of surprises over the last weeks.
Former competitors are now partners, and existing partnerships are dissolved.
However, this membership seems incompatible with its new alliance with BT and MCI, which have formed Concert , a direct competitor of Unisource. As in other countries, the telecommunications market in Spain is living through one of its most dynamic periods. The other group was not a formally established alliance, but a set of companies with common investments in the mobile and cable markets. The GSM market is a good example of intense competition between the two groups. Airtel obtained the GSM licence on December 1994, and launched its commercial service a few months later, in October 1995, establishing a record of network deployment speed.