Everything about Digitel totally explained
Digitel GSM is an important
mobile phone company in
Venezuela, and the country's first to deploy a
GSM network and to establish a per second charging scheme. Early in 2007, Digitel surpassed 3 million subscribers and is currently placed third, behind
CANTV's
Movilnet and
Telefonica's
Movistar.
Digitel's growth has remained steady, primarily due to its pioneering of high technology services and its influential advertisement campaigns. Digitel currently provides wireless data transmission capabilities through its
GSM/GPRS and high speed
EDGE network. Recently Digitel has been applying for the 2.1 GHz spectrum, in order to deploy an
UMTS network.
In 2000, after receiving government approval, Digitel sold 56,56% of its stocks to
Telecom Italia Mobile, changing it's name to
Digitel TIM.
Digitel's network originally only covered Venezuela's central region, reaching around 44% of the entire population, however, on January 2006, a request to the government to approve merger with Venezuela's two other GSM networks (Digicel and Infonet) to achieve full national coverage, and in May 2006 the company was acquired entirely by the
Televenco group together with the two other operators, after which the company's name changed to its current:
Digitel GSM.
The company began a network expansion program in July 2006, and by the end of the year more than 1,070 radio bases had been installed, 7 switches in
Caracas,
Valencia,
Puerto La Cruz and
Maracaibo, stretching it's GPRS/EDGE network in the West of the country and offering communication, data, information and entertainment to all it's customers.
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