The largest telecommunications company in Chile, Entel (Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A), announced that it will enter the residential fixed service business in Chile, offering fixed wireless telephony, satellite television and Internet services. The move is part of the company's growth strategy.
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Chile's Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) and German software company SAP have teamed up to offer mobile services to Entel's enterprise clients based on SAP's mobile platform.
“This is a step further in the offering of convergent services, complementing our actual services: SAP Hosting and...
America Movil’s Chilean unit Claro, Telefonica’s local wireless operations Movistar, and Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) have each presented proposals for the 2.6 GHz frequency band tender, which will be responsible for the deployment of LTE networks in Chile.
Each proposal received scores, which...
Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) unveiled plans to invest $3 billion between 2012 and 2014 to focus on mobile technology. The plan comprises investments of $900 million in 2012 and includes the purchase of handsets for clients with contracts. The announcement was made...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Chilean operator Entel PCS is using its 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band to conduct trials of LTE services. The primary focus is on small and medium enterprises with the aim of complementing Internet broadband services provided...
“The members of OITA will work to find synergies in several telecom areas which we can take advantage of as a team, such as making joint purchases,” Marcelo Erlich, Antel’s ICT general manager, told RCR Wireless News during TM Forum's Latin America Summit. The Uruguayan...
The growth in mobile subscribers contributed to the financial performance of Chilean operator Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A Entel.
The company reported that its mobile customer base increased 24% in 2011 to 9,347,434 subscribers at the end of the year. The carrier's postpaid subscriber...
After the local data, fixed-line, cable TV and Internet provider Grupo GTD gave up the merger with Chile’s Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A. Entel, the second largest telecom operator has release a material fact regarding its eventual entrance into the pay-TV market. Entel said...
Little more than a month after its announcement, the merger of local data, fixed-line, cable TV and Internet provider Grupo GTD with Chile’s second-largest mobile telephone operator, Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones SA (Entel), is cancelled. Yesterday (January 9) Entel’s controller, Almendral Telecomunicaciones SA, sent...
The merger of local data, fixed-line, cable TV and Internet provider Grupo GTD and Chile’s second-largest mobile telephone operator, Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones SA (Entel), could be threatened as the National Economic Prosecutor (Fiscalia Nacional Economica, FNE) is reviewing the merger and has submitted...
Entel, the second-largest mobile telephone operator in Chile, has signed a $200 million loan with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and a unit of Bank of Nova Scotia. The money will be used to pay down a $600 million loan Entel has coming due in June.
Entel, Chile’s second-largest mobile telephone operator, has said it will merge with local data, fixed-line, cable TV and Internet provider Grupo GTD. The move may help Entel compete against its main rivals Movistar and Claro.
Bolivian’s Control Authority and Social Control of Telecommunications and Transport (ATT) said it will make a ruling on the fees it will impose on the country’s largest carriers beginning next year. The ATT noted that the largest carrier will be the one with the...
Ericsson | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
Leading Chilean operator Entel is meeting the challenge of rapidly-growing data traffic by launching the fastest mobile broadband network in Latin America. The network is based on Ericsson's (NASDAQ:ERIC) latest HSPA...
BNAmericas | May 9, 2011 | Phil Anderson
Latin America is expected to have 15 commercial HSPA+ networks by year-end, as well as two LTE networks, executives at chipset manufacturerQualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOMM) told BNamericas.
At present, the region has eight commercially active HSPA+ networks - four...
Omar Perez of Entel used his keynote at LTE LatAm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to discuss how mobile broadband could significantly improve the quality of people’s lives.
Bolivia’s Entel runs the gamut in terms of telephony, providing everything from mobile, to fixed line, to...
Omar Perez of Entel used his keynote at LTE LatAm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to discuss how mobile broadband could significantly improve the quality of people’s lives.
Bolivia’s Entel runs the gamut in terms of telephony, providing everything from mobile, to fixed line, to...
Entel Bolivia | December 23, 2010
Entel has just announced the release of a new ZTE phone, the "Coral 200" in Bolivia. This new phone has menus available in Quechua and Aymara, two native languages of the region. It also has much larger buttons which...
Economic Times | December 23, 2010
LA PAZ: Bolivia has fined Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei $8 million for breach of contract, officials said.
Public Works Minister Walter Delgadillo said Bolivian state telecommunications provider Entel collected on Huawei's performance bond after the Chinese company failed to...
