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Compañía Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV) is one of the first telephone service enterprises in Venezuela, founded in 1930, when businessman Félix A. Guerrero obtained a concession from the "Ministerio de Fomento" to build a telephone network primarily in the capital, and of course in the rest of the country. In 1950 the government acquired 100% of the shares, as part of a nationalization of industries, which ended in the early 1970s. The company was privatized in 1991, which resulted in a swift modernization of its technological infrastructure and an enhancement of its communications services offering. Its services include voice transmission, data, access to Internet, cellular telephony and directories of information. It is owned by Verizon Communications (GTE Venholdings), the Venezuelan Government, Telefónica S.A., Mercantil Servicios Financieros, America Movil, and several thousand small private investors, including company employees. On 2007-01-08, President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuela would nationalize CANTV, a move aimed at returning the company's control to the state. A public company usually refers to a company which is permitted to offer its securities (stock, bonds, etc. ...
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VEB may stand for: Venezuelan bolívar (ISO currency code) Volkseigener Betrieb (People-owned enterprise), a nationalised workplace or establishment in the German Democratic Republic. ...
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VEB may stand for: Venezuelan bolívar (ISO currency code) Volkseigener Betrieb (People-owned enterprise), a nationalised workplace or establishment in the German Democratic Republic. ...
One thousand million (1,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ...
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Mercantil Servicios Financieros is a Venezuelan enterprise that offers financial services, insurance, real estate and stock exchange. ...
América Móvil AMX is a publicly traded wireless communications company that provides services to over 93. ...
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CompañÃa Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV) is one of the first telephone service enterprises in Venezuela, founded in 1930, when businessman Félix A. Guerrero obtained a concession from the Ministerio de Fomento to build a telephone network primarily in the capital, and of course...
CompañÃa Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV), is one of the first telephone service enterprises in Venezuela. ...
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Mercantil Servicios Financieros is a Venezuelan enterprise that offers financial services, insurance, real estate and stock exchange. ...
América Móvil AMX is a publicly traded wireless communications company that provides services to over 93. ...
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Hugo Rafael Chávez FrÃas (IPA: ) (born July 28, 1954) is the current President of Venezuela. ...
Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ...
Subsidiaries
Services provided by CANTV are divided into three subsidiaries which handle cellular phone service, internet access and directory services. Cellular redirects here. ...
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CANTV.net In addition to dial-up, ISP Cantv Servicios, offers broadband access using ADSL technology. It covers the major share of the Venezuelan broadband market, having reached 53% in 2001 and 76% in 2003, reaching more than 528.000 broadband access customers in 2006. As of January, 2007, download speeds offered vary from 1024 kbps to 2048 kbps and 512 kbps upload speed. There is also a low-end speed of 256 kbps, at a much lower price. It also offers wireless broadband service,at a higher price, through 3G EvDO technology which has speeds anywhere between 400 kbps to 700 kbps, with peaks of up to 2048 kbps, one of the best service speeds avaiable in Latin America. There are future plans to offer Television Service over internet, but still, the proyect is on evaluation. In telecommunication, the term dial-up has the following meanings: Dial-up access, typically to the Internet A service feature in which a user initiates service on a previously arranged trunk or transfers, without human intervention, from an active trunk to a standby trunk. ...
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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ...
Movilnet The mobile phone component of CANTV was founded in 1991. As of 2001 it had a market share of 40%, based on TDMA and CDMA2000 technologies, reching over 8 Million Subscribers in late 2006, making it the second largest Wireless service provider in Venezuela after Movistar, which is owned by Telefonica S.A. It also offers 1x EV-DO in major populated areas around the country. Time division multiple access (TDMA) is a channel access method for shared medium (usually radio) networks. ...
CDMA2000 is a family of third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunications standards that use CDMA, a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data, and signalling data (such as a dialed telephone number) between mobile phones and cell sites. ...
Evolution Data Only,Evolution Data Optimized, often abbreviated as EVDO, EV-DO, EvDO, 1xEV-DO or 1xEvDO is a wireless radio broadband data protocol being adopted by many CDMA mobile phone providers in Japan, Korea, the United States and Canada, as part of the CDMA2000 standard. ...
Caveguías Caveguias provides both printed and electronic directories for CANTV clients and subscribers.
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