VTR (telecom company)
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| Company type | Subsidiary of Liberty Latin America[1] |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Predecessor | Vía Trans Radio Chilena |
| Founded | March 15, 1928 |
| Headquarters | Av. Apoquindo Nº4800, Las Condes, , |
Area served | All regions of Chile |
Key people | David Leonard, Guillermo Ponce |
| Products | Internet Cable television Telephony mobile telephony |
| Parent | Liberty Latin America |
| Website | vtr.com |
VTR (Vía Trans Radio Comunicaciones SpA) is a Chilean telecommunications company. It is the country's largest provider of subscription television, with 1,065,675 subscribers (32.8% market share, as of September 2017),[2] and of fixed broadband Internet access (38.0% share, as of September 2017).[3] It is also the second largest provider of fixed telephone service (20.0%, as of September 2017), behind Telefónica.[4] It also has a small but growing participation (0.90%, as of September 2017) in the mobile phone business.[5]
It is wholly owned by Liberty Latin America following the split of Liberty Latin America from Liberty Global effective December 29, 2017;[6] Grupo Saieh's CorpGroup previously owned 20% until March 2014 when Liberty Global acquired the remaining 20% it did not own.[7][8]
VTR also owned Bazuca.com, a now-defunct video rental services company, and —together with Turner Broadcasting System— CNN Chile, a 24-hour news channel based in Santiago,[8] until 2016, when it was bought entirely by WarnerMedia Latin America.[9]
After a massive post-pandemic customer flight, at the end of September 2021, VTR announced the establishment of a joint-venture with Claro Chile in a joint statement from Liberty Latin América and América Móvil, parent companies of both companies; The new joint company was called ClaroVTR.[10] In October 2022, the Fiscalía Nacional Económica (National Economic Prosecutor's Office) authorized the merger, but demanding the sale of the satellite television business operated by Claro, given the historical prohibition of the same FNE that has prevented VTR since 2004 offer such services.
References[edit]
- ^ "Home | Liberty Latin America". Lla.com. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Liberty Latin America Completes Split-Off from Liberty Global" (PDF) (Press release). Denver, Colorado: Liberty Global. January 2, 2018.
- ^ "Liberty Global Acquires Remaining 20% of VTR, Chile's Largest Cable Operator" (PDF). Liberty Global. 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2014-03-17.
- ^ a b "Quiénes Somos". Vtr.com. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
- ^ "Turner compra el 50% de CNN Chile que estaba en manos de VTR". Teletrece (in Spanish). 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
- ^ Ortiz, Florencia (2021-09-29). "La sorpresa de VTR y Claro: anuncian sociedad conjunta y fusionarán sus operaciones en Chile". Radio Bío-Bío (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-03-26.
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