03/14/2012

TelecoWorld: Venezuela

 

Official Name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Capital: Caracas Population: 29.4 million (CEPAL 2011) Currency: Bolívar Calling Code: +58 Regulatory Entity: Conatel Comision Nacional de Telecomunicaciones

 

 

The following figure presents the evolution number of fixed telephony and cellular phones in Venezuela. (Source: Conatel).

 

Quarterly Performance

 

Thousands	1Q10	2Q10	3Q10	4Q10	1Q11	2Q11	3Q11	4Q11	∆Qter	∆Year
Mobile Access	28,055	28,205	27,871	27,880	27,193	26,889	26,986	28,781	6.7%	3.2%
Fixed Telephones	6,908	7,008	7,055	7,083	7,177	7,257	7,286	7,332	0.6%	3.5%
Broadband	2,002	2,179	2,261	2,364	2,488	2,649	2,727	3,037	11.3%	28.5%
Pay TV	2,427	2,458	2,489	2,538	2,584	2,588	2,641	2,795	5.8%	10.1%

Source: Conatel

 

 

Densidades	1Q10	2Q10	3Q10	4Q10	1Q11	2Q11	3Q11	4Q11
Mobile Access	98.4	98.5	97.0	96.7	94.0	92.5	92.6	98.3
Fixed Telephones	24.2	24.5	24.6	24.6	24.8	25.0	25.0	25.0
Broadband	7.0	7.6	7.9	8.2	8.6	9.1	9.4	10.4
Pay TV	8.5	8.6	8.6	8.8	8.9	8.9	9.1	9.5

Fonte: Conatel

 

SMS

 

Thousands	1Q10	2Q10	3Q10	4Q10	1Q11	2Q11	3Q11	4Q11	∆Qter	∆Year
SMS	16,559	18,834	21,427	21,519	21,059	21,967	22,683	24,215	6.8%	12.5%
SMS/cell./month	196.7	222.6	256	257	258	272	280	280	-	-

Source: Conatel

 

 

Annual Performance

 

Thousands	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	∆Year
Mobile Access	18,798	23,820	27,414	28,124	27,880	28,781	3.2%
Fixed Telephones	4,217	5,195	6,303	6,867	7,083	7,332	3.5%
Internet Users	4,140	5,720	7,222	8,847	10,273	3,037	28.5%
Pay TV	1,336	1,608	1,929	2,166	2,526	2,795	10.1%

Source: Conatel

 

 

Densities	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Mobile Access	68.9	86.8	98.3	99.2	97.8	100.5
Fixed Telephones	15.5	18.9	22.6	24.2	24.9	25.6
Internet Users	15.3	20.8	25.9	31.2	35.6	10.4
Pay TV	4.9	5.9	6.9	7.6	8.8	9.5

Source: Conatel

 

 

SMS

 

Thousands	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	∆Year
SMS	7,330	10,226	14,823	16,690	21,519	24,215	12.5%
SMS/cell./month	130.0	143.1	180.2	197.8	257.3	280	-

Source: Conatel

 

 

 

 

Mobile Telephony Operators

 

The cellular operators in Venezuela are: Movistar (Telefonica), Movilnet (Cantv) and Digitel.

• Movilnet uses CDMA/TDMA technology, Movistar CDMA/GSM and the others GSM.
• Telcel was acquired by Telefonica Moviles, together with other Bell South operations in the Latin America in March 2004.
• Tim announced in January 2006 for sale of the Digitel for the Telvenco S.A, a company of Oswaldo Cisneros property´s at the price of US$ 425 millions. The Digitel had in 2005, 1.7 million cellular and income for 287 million euros. Tim had announced in november 2004 for sale of Digitel for Cantv, operation that was not approved by Conatel.
• In Feb/07 the government of Venezuela acquired 28.5% of capital votante of CANTV that were Verizon (US) property per US$ 572 millions. This participation of Verizon with CANTV were being negotiated with America Móvil that had agreed to pay US$ 676 millions.

 

 

Fixed Telephony Operators

 

Fixed Telephony Operators in Venezuela are: Cantv, Digitel, Movistar, Netuno and Intercable.

 

Cantv Movistar Netuno Intercable

 

Internet Providers

 

In Venezuela there are about 24 internet providers.

 

 

 

Pay TV Providers

 

Pay TV operators in Venezuela are: Movistar, Netuno, Intercable, Directv, Supercable, Cablevision and Asocatel.

 

Movistar Netuno Intercable Directv Supercable Cablevision

 

 

 

Social-Economics Indicators

 

-	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	∆Year
GDP (US$ billion)	183	226	311	326	291	(10.7%)
GDP per capita (US$)	6,796	8,226	11,076	11,382	9,960	(12.5%)
Annual Inflation(%)	13.7	18.7	30.4	27.1	28.2	4.1%

Source: FMI - World Economic Outlook Database, April 2010

 

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