Official Mobile Network Provider, Vodafone Spain become the eighth official Supporter of the 32nd America’s Cup.

The arrangement was announced at Port America’s Cup on Thursday morning by Antonio Alemán, Director of Corporate Business Unit for Vodafone Spain, Michel Bonnefous, the CEO of the organisers of the 32nd America’s Cup, and Rita Barberá, the Mayoress of Valencia.

"We are very proud that big international companies such as Vodafone continue to associate themselves with the 32nd America’s Cup," said Michel Bonnefous, CEO of the organising body for the 32nd Americas Cup. "In this case Vodafone is providing world-class mobile telecommunications services which make our event better through superior quality voice and date transmission.”

Vodafone Spain has collaborated on the deployment of the 3G and HSDPA technology that covers the race area (over 600 square kilometres) and Port America’s Cup.

Thanks to this, Vodafone customers on the race course, at the Port America’s Cup, in the city of Valencia and along the coast of the Valencian province can enjoy 3.6Mb/s of speed of data transmissions.

Additionally, Vodafone Spain has collaborated with the Meteorological Data Service run by the 32nd America’s Cup (MDS), which provides weather data from the race course to all of the teams. Vodafone has provided a GPRS modem for each of the 22 weather buoys, to ensure reliable data transmission of information critical to the teams and organisers of the 32nd America’s Cup.