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...
The Chilean Senate has approved 33 - 0 new regulations on mobile phone antenna installations (read the document in Spanish). This agreement is expected to be ratified in the coming weeks by the National Congress, and soon to be enacted into the law.
The bill...
Chile's lower house of congress approved a bill last month regulating the installation of mobile phone antennas. Under the proposal, any dealer-installed support tower antennas and radiating systems telecommunications transmission over 12 meters (about 40 feet) tall would require installation permit from the Directorate of Municipal Works, which determines in which areas antennas may be built as well as the rates that municipalities may charge for the right of use.
Starting Jan. 16, Chileans mobile subscribers will be able to keep their original phone numbers when switching telephone operators. So-called mobile number portability will affect 25 million users, Chile's Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications estimates.
As part of number portability deployment, Chile's Department of Telecommunications...
Subtel, Chile’s secretary of telecommunications, will disclose on Dec. 16 the new award conditions for the 4G auctions in the band of 2.6 GHz. The auction of three 20 MHz blocks of frequency is set for the first half of 2012.
Chile’s secretary of telecommunications (Subtel) is set to schedule an auction of 4G spectrum, which will enable LTE deployment in the country. Subtel has yet to spell out its requirements for the bidding, which is expected to happen in next year's first quarter, but...
Chilean telecoms regulator Subtel has made amendments to the General Telecommunications Law passed by Congress so that from now own Internet service providers (ISPs)Â are prohibited to block arbitrary applications, services and Internet content, and companies have to be transparent to users about trading conditions...
Chilean Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, confirmed the decision of the administration of President Piñera to speed up the processing and approval of a bill designed to correct the current gaps in the regulations for telecommunications towers construction.
According to Chile’s telecom...
Maravedis | January 26, 2011 | Cintia Garza
Latin America is the quietest region in terms of LTE deployments and operator commitments. Other regions such as Europe and Asia Pacific have shown much more LTE activity, accounting for 35% and 26% of the 145 LTE...
Business News Americas | January 24, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean telecoms regulator Subtel is likely to come under considerable pressure over the next few days to modify recently published regulations for an internet neutrality law, which have provoked the ire of internet consumer groups,...
Business News Americas | January 3, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean telecommunications networks suffered minimum disruption following Sunday's (Jan 2) magnitude-7.1 earthquake in the south of the country, according to information from telecoms regulator Subtel and operators.
No deaths or damage was reported by national emergency...
