Digitel GSM
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Digitel is Venezuela's only GSM mobile phone network, and the smallest of the three main national providers, behind CANTV's Movilnet and Telefonica's Movistar. It provides access to public, fixed and mobile phone systems and the internet, allowing people in remote areas of the country to access modern means of communication.
Growth
Digitel has more than 3 million clients and achieved a loyal customer base through pioneering high technology services. Since its origins until now, Digitel has established an invoicing plan in seconds and launched the SMS service. Later, evolved to GSM and MMS (Multimedia Messages Services), based on GPRS technological platform.
Digitel's network covers Venezuela's central region, reaching around 44% of the entire population. It achieved gross profits of around USD96 million in 2005, on revenues of around USD325 million. At the end of September 2005, regional operators Digicel had over 100,000 GSM subscribers in southern and eastern regions, whilst Infonet had a similar number of users of its GSM network in the western part of the country.
In May 2006 the company the company was acquired in its entirety by the Telvenco group, owned by Mr. Oswaldo Cisneros Fajardo. Thus, Digitel is now the only telecommunication company of the country 100% Venezuelan. The purchase marked an expansion stage because the Digitel coverage extended thanks to the acquisition of two regional companies Digicel and Infonet, located in the east and the West of the country.
The company began a network expansion program in July 2006, and by the end of the year more than 1,070 radio bases had been installed, 4 new switches in the cities of Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Táchira, and Caracas and a stretch of the 100% of the GPRS/EDGE network in the West of the country that offers to the clients solutions of communication, data, information and entertainment.
In june 2007 Digitel became the first operator in Latin America to offer the Nokia N73 Music Edition, and it was told that it will also become the first one to offer the Nokia N95.
All information was obtained from the Digitel website