Digitel 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 and is currently placed third, behind CANTV 's Movilnet and Telefonica 's Movistar .
5-579: Digitel may refer to: Digitel GSM , a mobile phone company in Venezuela Digital Telecommunications Philippines , commonly known as Digitel, a defunct mobile telecommunications company in the Philippines Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc., doing business as Sun Cellular , a former subsidiary Digitel Wireless , a wireless broadband integrator in
10-609: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Digitel GSM Digitel's growth has remained steady. Digitel currently provides wireless data transmission capabilities through its GSM–GPRS and high speed EDGE network. In 2007 Digitel deployed an UMTS network on its existing 900 MHz spectrum. . In 2000, after receiving government approval, Digitel sold 56.56% of its stocks to Telecom Italia Mobile , changing its name to Digitel TIM . Digitel's network originally only covered Venezuela's central region, reaching around 44% of
15-503: 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, Digitel got its 3G/WCDMA ( HSDPA , HSUPA , GSM / WCDMA ) network working all over the country, becoming
20-639: The entire population; however, in January 2006, a request to the government to approve merger with Venezuela's two other GSM networks (Digicel and Infonet) 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
25-572: The southeastern United States See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Digitel Data communication Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Digitel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digitel&oldid=1186564248 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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