The National Communications Company (ENTEL, from ) (doing business as Entel-Chile S.A.)[1] is the largest Chilean telecommunications company. The company is known for the 127 m high Torre Entel (Entel Tower) that rises above central Santiago and constitutes one of the city's landmarks.
As of December 2013 Entel PCS had 38.8% of the Chilean mobile market.[2] It was the first American operator to launch a GSM mobile network in 1997. In 2000, the Entel PCS network offered support for GPRS and in 2003 it added EDGE support.
History
Entel was started in 1964 by the Chilean government at the time to improve long distance, improve telecommunications quality within the country and build a network trunk to replace the old infrastructure badly damaged by an earthquake. Entel installed microwave networks in almost the entire national territory and built in 1968 a satellite station in Longovilo