Growing number of subscribers of satellite television CANTV – Aporrea.org (blog)

Caracas, March 3 – The satellite TV service of the National Telephone Company Limited (CANTV) closed last year with 167 000 557 new subscribers for a total of 781 000 584 users around the country

In Venezuela the index. satellite television penetration is 64% with 614 4,000,000 647,000 active accounts. Of these, 34.66% corresponds to the number of users of CANTV, outlined the closure report 2014 of the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel).

The report states that telecommunications maintained its pace of growth in the country, which contributed 7.1% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ranking seventh among the non-oil sectors.

The democratization of CANTV services have affected the growth of the telecommunications sector.

This is the case of fixed telephony which closed 2014 with 7,000,000 808,000 524 active lines. Of these, 6 million 943 thousand 649 are CANTV, ie 88.92% of subscribers, reported a press release from the national telephone company, nationalized in 2007 by Commander Hugo Chavez.

The internet broadband fixed the close of 2014 stood at 3,000,000 453,000 36 subscribers, Cantv line which accounts for 66.54% with over 2.2 million subscribers.

As for Internet users at the end of the fourth quarter last year, an estimated 15 million 960 thousand 691 Venezuelans are connected to the service through fixed, portable and mobile computers with at least Access plan Data Networks.