Telecommunications in Chile
Template:SHORTDESC: The technical regulator of communications in Chile is the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel).
Telephone
[edit | edit source]History
[edit | edit source]Telephone and telegraph services started in Chile in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell, presented his patent for a telephonic system. José Dottin Husbands, an associate of Thomas Edison, arrived into the port of Valparaíso carrying the first set of switching equipment and telephones.[1] By 1880 the first telephone company of the country is born (Compañía Chilena de Teléfonos de Edison), while in 1893, after a rapid expansion in the northern regions of Chile, telephone services started operating in the south, thanks to the founding of Telefónica del Sur (current day Grupo GTD), a company created by a group of German immigrants that had previously settled in the area of Valdivia, Región de los Ríos.
- Main lines in use: 2,567,938 (2020 est.)[2]
- Mobile cellular: 25,068,249 (2020 est.)[2]
- Pre-paid: 17,283,257
- Post-paid: 6,847,497 [3]
- System: privatization began in 1988; advanced telecommunications infrastructure; modern system based on extensive microwave radio relay facilities; fixed-line connections have dropped in recent years as mobile-cellular usage continues to increase, reaching a level of 85 telephones per 100 persons[2]
- Domestic: extensive microwave radio relay links; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations
- international: country code - 56; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Radio
[edit | edit source]Television
[edit | edit source]- Broadcast stations: 63 (plus 121 repeaters) (1997)[2]
- Broadcast television system: NTSC[5]
- Pay television: 4,158,874 (2012)[6]
Internet
[edit | edit source]- Internet hosts: 847,215 (2008)[2]
- Internet users: 16,822,264 (2020 est.)[2]
- Internet mobile users: 4,921,587[3]
- Internet country code: .cl[2]
Other technical details
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