This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(July 2013)
Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs. The sector has had the second largest (after energy) investment in infrastructure (54 percent) since 1997. However, the economic downturn between 1999 and 2002 adversely affected telecommunications. During this period, Colombia's telecommunications industry lost US$2 billion despite a profit of US$1 billion in local service. In June 2003, the government liquidated the state-owned and heavily indebted National Telecommunications Company (Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones—Telecom) and replaced it with Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Colombia Telecom). The measure enabled the industry to expand rapidly, and in 2004 it constituted 2.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Telefónica of Spain acquired 50 percent plus one share of the company in 2006.[1]
As a result of increasing competition, Colombia has a relatively modern telecommunications infrastructure that primarily serves larger towns and cities. Colombia's telecommunication system includes access to 8 different international Submarine cable systems, INTELSAT, 11 domestic satellite Earth stations, and a nationwide microwave radio relay system.[1]
^ abColombia country profile. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (February 2007). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
and 21 Related for: Communications in Colombia information
Retrieved 31 August 2023. Internetworldstats.com (in Spanish) Colombian Ministry of Communications (in Spanish) Comunicate.com.co, Coldecon, Internet Provider...
"cambiala.gov.co" (in Spanish). "Calling Colombia". [1] Article 48 of Decree 25 of January 11, 2002, Ministry of Communications of Colombia, retrieved on April...
Postal codes inColombia are 6 digit numeric. The first group of two digits are the numbers used by DANE to encode the departments. The second group of...
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland...
Colombia is the fourth largest in Latin America as measured by gross domestic product and the third-largest economic power in South America. Colombia...
are an introduced species inColombia. Four hippopotamuses were kept by Pablo Escobar in the late 1970s, and upon his death in 1993 they were allowed to...
Mass media inColombia refers to Mass media available inColombia consisting of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema...
Access to the Internet inColombia shows a marked increase during the last few years. As of September 2009, the web connections surpassed two million...
The illegal drug trade inColombia has, since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle...
production inColombia Coffee production inColombia Irrigation inColombia Banking inColombia Bank of the Republic CommunicationsinColombia Internet in Colombia...
Colombia is a Colombian telecommunications operator, owned by Mexican group América Móvil. Claro is the largest provider of mobile phone services in the...
Mauricio Carradini is an expert in strategy and intelligence who served as Presidential Advisor for Communications during Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez's...
or Communications Technology may refer to: Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (Colombia) Ministry of Information, Communications & Technology...
Television inColombia or Colombian television (Spanish: Televisión de Colombia) is a media of Colombia. It is characterized for broadcasting telenovelas...
(born 28 January 1938) is a Colombian political scientist, professor and diplomat. He has served as Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, to France...
The Republic of Colombia is situated largely in the north-west of South America, with some territories falling within the boundaries of Central America...
roads, rudimentary and most of these in the Caribbean region. Due to the rough terrain of Colombiacommunications between regions was difficult and affected...
1970), Colombian politician and business administrator Diego Molano Vega (born 1967), former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia...
The National Police of Colombia (Spanish: Policía Nacional de Colombia) is the national police force of the Republic of Colombia. Although the National...
and Communications (Colombia). Lemos served later as Ambassador of Colombia to the Organization of American States (OAS), drafter of the Colombian Constitution...
of Colombia (Spanish: Congreso de la República de Colombia) is the name given to Colombia's bicameral national legislature. The Congress of Colombia consists...
Global Information