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Claro

Blazon	Subsidiary
Industry	Wireless services
Founded	September 19, 2003; 18 years ago (2003-09-19)
Headquarters	Mexico City, United mexican states
Number of locations	List Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Republic of costa rica Dominican Republic Ecuador Republic of el salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Republic of peru Puerto Rico Uruguay
Key people	Manola Ayala -CEO Carlos J. García Moreno -CFO Carlos Cárdenas -Exec LatAm Operations
Services	UMTS/HSDPA, CDMA, GSM, AMPS, Wireless Information Services, Push to Talk
Acquirement	2018 R$49.2B BR; $9.1B USD
Number of employees	+100.000
Parent	América Móvil
Subsidiaries	List Cablenet S.A. Claro Goggle box Embratel Movistar Guatemala NET Star Ane Telecomoda
Website	claro.com

Claro Company is a Mexican company part of América Móvil, a Mexican telecom group. Claro serves clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Republic of guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. The company's proper noun means "bright," "clear," and besides "of course," in both Portuguese and Spanish.

Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay [edit]

Headquartered in Córdoba, Argentine republic, Claro was launched in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on March 25, 2008 in a rebranding of CTI Móvil. Every bit of 31 March 2007^[update] the onetime served more than than 12.8 million subscribers on CDMA/1XRTT and GSM/GPRS/Border wireless.^{[ citation needed ]}

CTI Móvil purchased Hutchison Telecom operation in Paraguay (which operated every bit "PortHable") in July 2005 to begin serving customers in that land. As of 2006, Claro competed with international operators such as Tigo (Millicom), Personal (Telecom Argentina-Telecom Italia) and Voice (formerly KDDI. VOX was caused in 2011 by the state landline company, COPACO). In these countries, the visitor used slogans such as "Es simple. Es Claro." ("It'due south simple. Information technology's clear") and "Claro es Net móvil de alta velocidad." ("Claro is high-speed mobile Internet.")

Brazil [edit]

In Brazil, Claro was launched in 2003 with the merger of América Móvil-endemic operators ATL (serving the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo), BCP (with service in São Paulo metropolitan area, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Ceará, Paraíba, Piauí and Rio Grande do Norte), Americel (operating in Acre, Tocantins, Rondônia, the Brazilian Federal Commune, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul), Tess Celular (other areas of São Paulo country) and Claro Digital (serving Rio Grande practise Sul).

Claro later expanded its service to usa of Bahia, Sergipe, Santa Catarina, Paraná and Minas Gerais. As of 2012, the provider has over 260 million agile mobile telephony connections and a mobile penetration of over 130%.^[1] With competitor Vivo, Claro was one of two operators to introduce the iPhone 3G in Brazil, with TIM participating later.^[2] Claro Brazil too runs a pay-tv service, Claro TV.^[3] Slogans used by the Brazilian branch include "Nós escutamos" ("We listen") and "Escolha" ("Cull").

Chile [edit]

Claro Chile was originally known as Chilesat PCS, which afterwards renamed to Smartcom PCS. Claro was launched in Republic of chile on August 6, 2006, after its acquisition of Smartcom PCS. Slogans such as "Yo soy Claro, y me gusta." ("I am Claro, and I like it.") accept appeared in advertisements.

In the mobile operator segment, Claro is third in marketplace share behind Movistar and Entel.

Colombia [edit]

While Claro has developed a large market share in Republic of colombia, information for prepaid customers indicates that Claro has lost market place share to competing providers Tigo and Movistar; this may be due to Claro's position every bit the near-expensive per-minute provider in the state's prepaid market place.^[4] Tigo and Movistar offering prepaid customers flat-rate per-minute plans for calls placed to all mobile service providers and landlines within Colombia (229 and 199 pesos per minute, respectively). The cheapest per-minute rate for Claro prepaid customers is 249 pesos per minute, a rate valid for only nine "preferred Claro numbers". Per-minute rates increase for calls to Claro numbers not on a customer'south "preferred" list and all calls to other cellphone providers or landline numbers.

Costa Rica [edit]

After the opening of telecommunication in Costa rica when the monopoly of the ICE Group was dissolved, the regime opened a tender for telecommunications companies wishing to enter Republic of costa rica. Superintendencia de Tele-Comunicaciones (SUTEL) of Costa rica secured a license, and the company began offering lines on Nov 5, 2011 to users who had registered on their website or through social networks. Service began on November 11.

Dominican Republic [edit]

Claro was launched in the Dominican Republic on Jan 31, 2007 after its acquisition of Verizon Dominicana on Apr 3, 2006. Its Dominican Republic slogans have included "Claro que tienes más" ("Of Grade y'all have more than"), "La Red donde todo es posible" ("The network where everything is possible"), and recently, "Estamos para ti" ("We are for you").

Ecuador [edit]

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Claro Ecuador is owned by America Móvil Latin America. Alfredo Escobar San Lucas is the CEO, Marco Antonio Campos Garcia is the CFO.^[5]

Claro Ecuador is based in Republic of ecuador and provides M2M services on HSPA+,HSDPA,UMTS,Edge,GPRS,GSM technologies. Claro make is operated past America Móvil. Claro's M2M services is powered past Jasper Wireless.^[6]

In Ecuador, América Móvil was nowadays with Conecel (commercially known as Porta) until February 2011. The proper name "Porta" was switched to "Claro" equally office of América Móvil's business concern strategy. Information technology is the state's leading operator, with nearly nine million subscribers.

Claro, Republic of ecuador's leading MNO by subscribers, has planned to invest around US$ 500 million over the adjacent three years in social club to expand 4G network coverage and larn new spectrum being sold later this year. Republic of ecuador has planned to auction spectrum in the 700MHz and 2.5GHz bands in November while an auction of frequencies in the 3.5GHz band is scheduled for August 2020. In improver to enhancing its 4G network footprint, the telco is also planning to begin 5G trials in Quito and Guayaquil.^[7]

El salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua [edit]

Claro was introduced in El salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in September 2006.

Claro (formerly CTE Telecom) is a mobile and fixed phone, broadband and idiot box service provider in El Salvador. Formerly controlled by parent company CTE Telecom in El Salvador (owned by América Móvil of Mexico), the visitor started its wireless service as "Personal" around 1999, and later added "ALÓ" with the motto "Facil y Rapido" (Spanish for "Easy and Fast "). In 2009, America Movil unified the brand in Latin America nether the name Claro.^[8]

On January 24, 2019, América Móvil announce that the company volition acquire Movistar'southward operations in El Salvador.^[ix] However, the proposed conquering was scrapped due to strict requirements to corroborate the acquistion.^[x]

Republic of guatemala [edit]

On November 16, 1996, the Guatemalan Congress passed the "Ley General de Telecomunicaciones" (General Telecommunication Law) that stipulated the privatization of Guatel, the sometime, state-endemic, telecommunications company. It was purchased by LUCA Southward.A. and Ricardo Bueso became Telgua'southward first President and CEO until 2000. In 2000, information technology joined América Móvil and some time afterwards information technology renamed the brands ALO and PCS Digital to Claro on Guatemala.

Claro was introduced in Guatemala on September vii, 2006 as a rebranding of Telgua-owned PCS Digital and Alo de PCS. As of March 31, 2007, Claro in Republic of guatemala had more than v.2 million subscribers, with CDMA/1XRTT, GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA (some cities with HSPA) wireless applied science.

On January 24, 2019, América Móvil acquired Movistar's operations in Guatemala, in improver to acquiring the Movistar's operations in El salvador. Eventually, Movistar's network in Guatemala would get integrated and merged with Claro in Republic of guatemala.^[9]

Jamaica [edit]

Claro was introduced in Jamaica as a replacement for the MiPhone visitor. Oceanic Digital Jamaica Express (ODJ) was a wholly endemic subsidiary of América Móvil, providing service under the Claro name. The company built a GSM/UMTS/HSDPA network with the CDMA network, and plans included fixed wireless and broadband service on the CDMA network (competing with Digicel and LIME).^[11] The Jamaican company was acquired by Digicel in late 2011, and the network was closed (with permission from the outgoing Jamaica Labour Party government) in March 2012.^[12]

Panama [edit]

The Panama government licensed América Móvil to use spectrum in Panama under the Claro name. The government aims to expand competition and mobile access to the Panamanian population.

Peru [edit]

Claro began operation on Oct 11, 2005 after its conquering of TIM Peru. The country has more than seventeen one thousand thousand customers.

Puerto Rico [edit]

Claro was introduced in Puerto Rico on May xviii, 2007 equally a replacement for Verizon Wireless. It is the wireless arm of Puerto Rico Telephone, which offers landline telephone and information services, while Coqui.Net (bought past Puerto Rico Telephone) manages Claro'south ISP and IPTV services on the island. One problem with the transition has been the non-portability telephones to the contiguous United states (Puerto Rico is role of the Us), resulting in a preference for AT&T.

Other activity [edit]

In 2012 Claro Americas was a partner in the (Reddish) Campaign with Adidas, American Express, Converse, China UnionPay, Legea and Servientrega. The entrada's mission is to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child by 2015, with a slogan "Fighting For An AIDS Free Generation".^[xiii]

See as well [edit]

Claro Boob tube

References [edit]

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^ ^a ^b "Claro «compró» a Movistar en dos paíseslatinoamericanos". Oh My Geek (in Spanish). January 24, 2021.
^ "America Movil says scraps deal to purchase Telefonica'southward El Salvador unit". Reuters. September three, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
^ jamaicaobserver.com (25 August 2007). "MiPhone changes hands again". TechJamaica.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 18 Feb 2014.
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