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LatAm: Entel announces $1.2 billion investment in Peru

by Roberta Prescott
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With an expected investment of $1.2 billion over the next five years, Entel, which bought Nextel Peru in 2013, has begun its new operations in Peru, seeking to stimulate competition in the telecommunications market. The carrier’s investment will focus on network deployment, technology and growth in customer services.

Sebastian Dominguez, general manager of Entel, said that the carrier has a deep commitment to building long-term relationships and emphasized that Entel has a long-term commitment to Peru. “We strongly believe in competition, and we want to promote and support initiatives that deepen and strengthen this,” he said.

Entel has 50 years of experience in Latin America. The group launched services in Peru in 2002 through its subsidiary Americatel. Since then, Entel has renewed 100% of its network with LTE services, doubling its telecommunications infrastructure and improving coverage of mobile services. It has also doubled its points of contact with customers and expanded its portfolio of equipment, offering iDEN-based 2G, 3G and 4G.

More news from the Latin American region:

  • Brazil ended August with 277.41 million mobile lines. GSM technology showed a slow reduction in penetration and W-CDMA increased. If this trend continues, over the next few months Brazil will have more 3G accesses than 2G, a landmark for the Latin American region.
  • Mexico’s mobile prices are expected to be reduced by 3.8% as a consequence of the structural changes in the country’s telecommunications market and the competitive pressure of mobile virtual network operators like Virgin Mobile.
  • Cisco and Portugal Telecom announced a strategic collaboration over the next three years to build out the smart solutions portfolio. Cisco is collaborating with PT on a number of key initiatives, including: smart solutions, smart work centers, smart/connected city Wi-Fi, and connected transportation, sports and entertainment.
  • Car-sa, a Mexico-based alternative carrier, has deployed the AOptix Intellimax wireless transport product at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey to replace lower-capacity wireless connections.
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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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