Chile - Fixed-Line Market & Infrastructure - Overview, Statistics & Forecasts

Synopsis

Telefónica Chile – the first of Telefónica’s fixed-line operators to trade under the Movistar brand name – is the incumbent local telephony provider in Chile, with around 57% of the country’s fixed lines in service. Several companies compete with Telefónica Chile using technologies based on triple play, WLL, VoIP, and NGN. VTR Globalcom, Chile’s leading cable TV company and triple player, is the second largest provider of local telephony with an 18% share of the country’s fixed lines in service. Entel is the incumbent long-distance carrier in Chile, but since liberalisation, it has been overtaken in the long-distance market by Telefónica Chile. This report provides an overview of Chile’s telecom infrastructure and brief profiles of the main fixed network operators, accompanied by relevant statistics, analyses, and fixed-line scenario forecasts for the years 2015 and 2020.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Fixed network operators in Chile
  
  • 2.1 Overview of operators
    
    • 2.1.1 Local operators
      
    • 2.1.2 Long-distance operators
      
  • 2.2 Movistar (Telefónica Chile)
    
  • 2.3 VTR Globalcom
    
  • 2.4 Entel Chile
    
  • 2.5 Telefónica del Sur (Telsur)
    
  • 2.6 GTD Manquehue and the GTD Group
    
  • 2.7 Telmex Chile
    
• 3. Telecommunications infrastructure
  
  • 3.1 National telecom network
    
    • 3.1.1 Fixed-line statistics
      
  • 3.2 International infrastructure
    
    • 3.2.1 Submarine cable networks
      
    • 3.2.2 Satellite networks
      
  • 3.3 Infrastructure developments
    
    • 3.3.1 IP and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
      
    • 3.3.2 Wireless Local Loop (WLL)
      
• 4. Forecasts – fixed-line market 2010; 2015; 2020
  
  • 4.1 Scenario 1 – higher fixed line growth
    
  • 4.2 Scenario 2 – lower fixed line growth
    
  • 4.3 Notes on scenario forecasts
    
• 5. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Market share of fixed lines in service – 2000-2009
• Table 2 – Entel and Movistar – market share of ILD and DLD traffic – 2001-2009
• Table 3 – Movistar – lines in service – 1999-2009
• Table 4 – VTR – telephony subscribers – 2000-2009
• Table 5 – Entel – lines in service – 2001-2009
• Table 6 – Telsur – lines in service – 1999-2009
• Table 7 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1996-2010
• Table 8 – Public phones – 2000-2009
• Table 9 – Forecast fixed lines – higher growth scenario – 2010; 2015; 2020
• Table 10 – Forecast fixed lines – lower growth scenario – 2010; 2015; 2020

• Exhibit 1 – Regions and primary zones
• Exhibit 2 – Local telephony operators – number of zones of operation – 2009
• Exhibit 3 – Telefónica Chile at a glance
• Exhibit 4 – Telefónica Chile – company history
• Exhibit 5 – VTR Globalcom at a glance
• Exhibit 6 – VTR – company history
• Exhibit 7 – Entel Chile at a glance
• Exhibit 8 – Entel – company history
• Exhibit 9 – Telsur at a glance
• Exhibit 10 – Telsur – company history
• Exhibit 11 – Telmex Chile – company history
• Exhibit 12 – Major submarine cable networks