Telefonica announced that Sunrise will form part of its Partners Programme for a further two years following the renewal of the broad agreement first entered into in September 2011. After taking stock of the results of their cooperation across different areas of activity, the operators concluded that the value derived from the partnership had increased significantly in the past year and that further collaboration was the best course. The Telefonica Partners Programme provides selected operators with a host of services supported by the Spanish operator's scale and knowledge.

Over the past two years Sunrise and Telefonica have cooperated in the procurement of network equipment, IT and devices through TGS, Telefonica's global procurement services unit, and in the provision of M2M services to multinationals companies, among other areas.