Digitel GSM

CORPORACIÓN DIGITEL, C.A. d/b/a Digitel GSM

Type	Public
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela
Key people	Oswaldo Cisneros (President)
Products	Wireless telecommunication
Parent	Grupo Televenco
Website	Digitel GSM

For the telephone company in the Philippines, see Digital Telecommunications Philippines.

Centro Banaven in Caracas (also known as "Cubo Negro") serves as main headquarters for Digitel GSM

Digitel GSM is a mobile phone company in Venezuela, and the country's first to deploy a GSM network and to establish a per second charging scheme. Early in 2007, Digitel surpassed 3 million subscribers^[1] and is currently placed third, behind CANTV's Movilnet and Telefonica's Movistar.

Digitel's growth has remained steady.^{[citation needed]} Digitel currently provides wireless data transmission capabilities through its GSM–GPRS and high speed EDGE network. In 2007 Digitel applied successfully for the 900 MHz spectrum, in order to deploy an UMTS network^{[citation needed]}.

In 2000, after receiving government approval, Digitel sold 56.56% of its stocks to Telecom Italia Mobile, changing its name to Digitel TIM^[2].

Digitel's network originally only covered Venezuela's central region, reaching around 44% of the entire population; however, on January 2006, a request to the government to approve merger with Venezuela's two other GSM networks (Digicel and Infonet)^[3] to achieve full national coverage, and in May 2006 the company was acquired entirely by the Televenco group together with the two other operators, after which the company's name changed to its current: Digitel GSM.

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, 7 switches in Caracas, Valencia, Puerto La Cruz and Maracaibo, stretching its GPRS/EDGE network in the West of the country and offering communication, data, information and entertainment to all its customers.

Early in 2010, Digtel got working all over the country its 3G/WCDMA (HSDPA,HSUPA, GSM/WCDMA)network, becoming in the fastest provider despite its slowly growth.

External links

• Digitel's Website
• Digitel GSM Coverage Map, Venezuela

References

1. ^ (Spanish) Crecen Cuentas de Digitel
2. ^ (Spanish) Telecom Adquiere Control de Digitel
3. ^ (Spanish) Digitel, Digicel e Infonet solicitan convertirse en operador nacional