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

Synopsis

Chile’s fixed-line market has been stagnating for more than a decade. Teledensity is about 14% higher than average for Latin America, but lags behind Costa Rica, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, and a number of Caribbean small island nations. Chile’s largest telecom company is the incumbent local telephony operator Telefónica Chile, which trades as Movistar. Its main competitors are pay TV/triple play operator VTR Globalcom, incumbent long-distance provider Entel Chile, the GTD group (including GTD Manquehue, GTD Telesat, Telsur, and Telcoy), and América Móvil’s Claro Chile. In a bid to unify services under a single trademark, the fixed-line business previously conducted by Telmex Chile has been taken over by mobile operator Claro Chile, both companies being controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. 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.

Key developments: operators consolidate their fixed-line, mobile, broadband, and pay TV operations under a single brand name: Movistar for Telefónica, Claro for América Móvil, and Entel; Chile’s antimonopoly tribunal rules that Movistar must offer naked ADSL; operator data to Q1 2011.

 Companies covered in this report include Movistar, VTR Globalcom, the GTD group (including Telsur, GTD Manquehue, Telesat, and Telcoy), Entel Chile, and Claro Chile.

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 GTD Group
    • 2.4.1 Telefónica del Sur (Telsur)
  • 2.5 Entel Chile
  • 2.6 Claro Chile (former Telmex)
• 3. Telecommunications infrastructure
  • 3.1 National telecom network
    • 3.1.1 Fixed-line statistics
    • 3.1.2 Public payphones
  • 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)
• 4. Wholesale
• 5. Forecasts – fixed-line market – 2015; 2020
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 Scenario 1 – higher fixed-line growth
  • 5.3 Scenario 2 – lower fixed-line growth
  • 5.4 Notes on scenario forecasts
• 6. Related reports

• Table 1 – Fixed lines in service – operators’ market share – 2000 - 2011
• Table 2 – Entel and Movistar – market share of ILD and DLD traffic – 2000 - 2010
• Table 3 – Movistar – fixed lines in service – 1999 - 2011
• Table 4 – VTR – fixed lines in service – 2000 - 2011
• Table 5 – Telsur – fixed lines in service – 2000 - 2011
• Table 6 – Entel – fixed lines in service – 2000 - 2011
• Table 7 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 1995 - 2011
• Table 8 – Public phones – 1996 - 2011
• Table 9 – Movistar wholesale accesses – 2004 - 2011
• Table 10 – Entel – wholesale segment net revenues – 2003 - 2010
• Table 11 – Forecast fixed lines – higher growth scenario – 2010; 2015; 2020
• Table 12 – Forecast fixed lines – lower growth scenario – 2010; 2015; 2020

• Chart 1 – Fixed line market share at a glance – March 2011
• Chart 2 – Evolution of fixed lines in service – 1995 - 2011

• Exhibit 1 – Regions and primary zones in Chile
• Exhibit 2 – Local telephony operators – number of zones of operation – March 2011
• Exhibit 3 – Telefónica Chile at a glance
• Exhibit 4 – VTR Globalcom at a glance
• Exhibit 5 – GTD Group at a glance
• Exhibit 6 – Telsur at a glance
• Exhibit 7 – Entel Chile at a glance
• Exhibit 8 – Claro at a glance