Industry Insight
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Entel wireless subscribers top 2m at end-2008 -
The Bolivian government has announced that the state-owned telecoms operator Entel finished 2008 with over two million mobile telephony clients, according to BNamericas. According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database, in June 2008 Entel’s subscribers totalled 1.8 million compared to rivals Telecel and Nuevatel with 1.19 million and 1.15 million clients respectively. With new subscribers totalling around 50,000 a month in the second half of 2008, and a plan to increase coverage in rural regions from 2,600 to 3,600 base stations in 2009, Entel aims to consolidate its role as the largest cellco by subscribers. The operator forecasts wireless revenues will rise by 29% in 2009.
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CNT to cut fixed line rates in half, announces WiMAX investment plan -
Ecuadorian state-owned national fixed line operator Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CNT) plans to cut end-user fixed line telephony rates by 50% this month, according to general manager Cesar Regalado, quoted by BNamericas. Regalado also said that the operator expects to invest USD450 million to implement WiMAX technology, to offer both high speed internet and fixed voice services. CNT was formed late last year from the merger of regional fixed line operators Andinatel and Pacifictel.
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CANTV reports progress of subsidised fixed line programme -
Venezuelan state-owned telco CANTV said in a statement that 170,000 clients had signed up for a social programme offering lower rate fixed telephony services as of 22 December 2008, reports BNamericas. The new telephony tariff was launched in October 2008, and offers discounts for economically disadvantaged sections of the population. The ‘Tarifa Solidaria’ calling package offers a 10% discount on local calls and a 15% discount on domestic long-distance calls, and is expected to benefit an estimated 1.5 million Venezuelans. To define which people within which areas qualify for the subsidy, CANTV is using a combination of national inventory ‘Fundacomun’ and its own census. Venezuela ended the third quarter of 2008 with a fixed line penetration of 21.2%, up from 17.2% at the end of the same period in 2007, according to data from the country's telecoms regulator Conatel; fixed lines in the country totalled 5.89 million at end-3Q08 compared to 4.69 million a year earlier.
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