Yes. Telefonica is operated from Spain, has no non-EU parent company and runs its own infrastructure, so staysin.eu classifies it as EU-sovereign.
No controlling shareholder; largest stakes are the Spanish state (10%) and Saudi STC (9.9%).
A provider counts as EU only when all three criteria hold:
Where a server physically sits is shown on each check but does not change the verdict: legal reach follows who controls the processing, not where the bytes are. Read the methodology.
Seen on 30 of 10871 checked domains (latest check per domain, as of 25 October 2026): as hosting on 5, as DNS on 15, as mail (MX) on 13, as mail sending (SPF) on 12, as third-party requests on 1.
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