Telecentro is an Argentine company in the telecommunications market. Its service offering includes the provision of cable television, landline telephone and Internet services.
47-437: Telecentro S.A. It has been a telecommunications company since 1990. Among its shareholders are Sebastián Pierri, Silvina Pierri, Alberto Pierri, Lisandro Pierri and Martín Pierri. Its current director is former deputy Alberto Pierri . Since 2003, Telecentro has based its distribution on a network of fiber optic trunks and at the beginning of 2007 the company began to offer its subscribers digital television service. Subsequently,
94-657: A C2 category regarding proficiency in the English language, there's a large number of people who are at least able to hold a conversation and make themselves understood. Religion in Argentina (2022) A majority of the population of Argentina is Christian . According to CONICET survey on creeds, about 76.5% of Argentines are Roman Catholic , 11.3% religiously indifferent, 9% Protestant (with 7.9% in Pentecostal denominations), 1.2% Jehovah's Witnesses , and 0.9% Mormons . Argentina
141-501: A Coded Television Closed Circuit Company in the town of San Justo, head of the La Matanza district, beginning its activities in 1991. Originally founded as a limited company by two partners, Mario José Menéndez and Habib Basbus,1 In November 1990, through resolution 825/1990, it was granted an expansion of channels towards the UHF spectrum. In 1992, through COMFER resolution 773/1992, Telecentro
188-455: A citizen or resident of Argentina. Asian Argentines settled in Argentina in large numbers during several waves of immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 19th century, West Asian immigrants, primarily from Lebanon and Syria came as a result of the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war . In the early 20th century, a small wave of East Asian immigrants, particularly from Japan came to the country. The first Argentines of East Asian descent were
235-464: A coded DTT service with 9 UHF channels with a total of 58 signals, transmitting from San Justo, province of Buenos Aires, through the European DVB-T standard. The programming includes movie channels, series, sports, general information, music, international channels and children's programming. As an Internet provider, Telecentro offers connection through a cable modem system. Since the end of 2017, it
282-661: A dialect called Patagonian Welsh , which has developed since the start of the Welsh settlement in Argentina in 1865. A high percentage of Argentines are proficient in the English language since its teaching is included in educational establishments as early as kindergarten. According to the 2023 edition of the English Proficiency Index, Argentines have the highest level of English proficiency in Latin America , ranking 28th worldwide. While of course not everybody falls under
329-405: A further 20% state they do not know whether or not they have any black ancestors. Genetic studies carried out in 2005 showed that the average level of African genetic contribution in the population of Buenos Aires is 2.2%, but that this component is concentrated in 10% of the population who display notably higher levels of African ancestry. Today there is still a notable Afro-Argentine community in
376-616: A large European contribution of 78.5%, against 17.3% of Amerindian and 4.2% Black African contributions. Several studies found out that the European ancestry in Argentina comes mainly from the Iberian Peninsula and Italy with a much lower contribution from Central and Northern Europe . The Italian component appears strongest in the East and Center-West, while the Spanish influence dominates in
423-468: A low profile, and is accepted by greater Argentine society. Primarily living in their own neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires, many currently own their own businesses of varying sizes – largely textiles, grocery stores, and buffet-style restaurants. Arabs and Argentines with partial Arab ancestry represent about 3.2 million people, whose ancestry traces back to any of various waves of immigrants, largely from
470-505: A majority in the country since 1914. Some international sources claim the European component of the population to be at around 97%. The most numerous immigrant European communities are: Spaniards (including Basques , Asturians and Galicians ), Italians (62.5% of the population have some degree of Italian descent), Germans , Scandinavians (mainly Danes and Swedes ), Slavs (including Russians , Ukrainians , Poles , Czechs , Bulgarians , Slovenes , Serbs and Croats ), Finns ,
517-456: A network of fiber optic trunks. In 2005, through resolutions 574/200512 and 564/200513, the licenses for the exploitation of its signals were extended for ten years, an extension that came into effect from June 2008. In 2006, through resolutions 1947/2006,15 1111/200616 and 2047/200617, TeleCentro was authorized to extend its services to the Buenos Aires districts of Avellaneda, Moreno, Morón, Tres de Febrero, Merlo, Ituzaingó and Hurlingham. In
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#1732920306971564-400: A significantly higher estimate of European ancestry at 78.5% of the average Argentine's autosomal DNA. Argentina has 35 officially recognized indigenous people groups. As of the 2010 census [ INDEC ] , some 955,032 Argentines (2.38% of the country's population) self-identify as indigenous or first-generation descendants of indigenous peoples. The most populous indigenous groups were
611-558: A small group of Japanese immigrants, mainly from the Okinawa prefecture , which came in the period between the early and mid 20th century. In the 1960s, Koreans began to arrive, and in the 1980s, Taiwanese immigrants. The 1990s brought the largest wave of Asian immigration so far to Argentina, from mainland Chinese immigrants, eventually becoming the fourth largest immigrant community in 2013, after Paraguayans, Bolivians, and Peruvians. The small East Asian Argentine population has generally kept
658-534: Is a melting pot of different peoples. In the mid-19th century a large wave of immigration started to arrive in Argentina due to new Constitutional policies that encouraged immigration, and issues in the countries the immigrants came from, such as wars, poverty, hunger, and famines. The main immigration sources were from Europe, the countries from the Near and the Middle East, Russia, and Japan. Eventually, Argentina became
705-441: Is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic , racial , religious , denomination , and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within
752-577: Is estimated that more than 20 million Argentines, more than 46% of the total population, have Italian ancestry, wholly or in part. Argentines descend mostly from Spaniards, Italians, Native Americans and to a lesser extent from French, Germans, Arabs, Slavs, Irish, Sub-Saharan Africans, East Asians, and others. Immigration of recent decades includes mainly Paraguayans , Bolivians , Peruvians , and Brazilians , among other Latin Americans , Eastern Europeans, Africans, Arabs, and Asians. Genetic ancestry of
799-543: Is home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America and 6th in the world, numbering 182,300 individuals or 0.45% of the population. On a city level, Buenos Aires has the second largest population of Jews in the Americas, second only to New York City. Argentina is also home to the largest Muslim minority in Latin America (see Islam in Argentina ). Although accurate statistics on religion are not available (because
846-648: Is the first ISP that began offering residential 1000Mbit/s (downstream) service, although subject to technical availability. Previously since December 2015 it is also the first ISP to offer residential 300Mbit/s (downstream) service, although subject to technical availability. Previously, since March 2013, it began as the first ISP to offer residential 100Mbit/s (downstream) service, although also subject to technical availability. Also, it offers 1000, 500, 300, 150, and 60 Mbit/s plans. The plans that were discontinued are 100, 75, 30, 25, 20 and 10 Mbit/s. Telecentro also provides landline telephone services for homes and serves
893-564: The Aonikenk , Kolla , Qom , Wichí , Diaguita , Mocoví , Huarpe peoples , Mapuche and Guarani Many Argentines also identify as having at least one indigenous ancestor; a genetic study conducted by the University of Buenos Aires in 2011 showed that 56% of the 320 Argentines sampled were shown to have at least one indigenous ancestor in one parental lineage and around 11% had indigenous ancestors in both parental lineages. Jujuy Province , in
940-586: The Argentine Northwest , is home to the highest percentage of households (15%) with at least one indigenous resident or a direct descendant of an indigenous person; Chubut and Neuquén Provinces , in Patagonia , have upwards of 12%. According to the Argentine national census of 2010, 149,493 (0.37% of the country's overall population) identified as Afro-Argentine , although according to gene pools studies,
987-507: The Buenos Aires districts of San Telmo and La Boca . There are also quite a few African-descended Argentines in Merlo and Ciudad Evita , in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Immigration from Cape Verde was one of the earliest African migratory flows in the post-colonial era, beginning as early as the late 19th century and well into the 20th century. Today, Cape Verdeans constitute one of
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#17329203069711034-702: The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area . On December 2, 2011, Telecentro S.A. proceeded to take actions to block the access of its clients to an internet site dedicated to the free dissemination of television content ( Cuevana ). However, he later decided to reverse the measure. According to Argentine legislation there is no legal measure that allows the site to be blocked completely. The company offers these services: A Digital TV service with 122 signals available with standard definition (SD) technology; 78 signals available with high definition (HD) technology and 2 signals available with 4K (Ultra HD) technology. And
1081-660: The French (including francophone Basques ), the Irish , Portuguese , the Dutch , among others in smaller number. There are approximately 300,000 Romani descendants in Argentina. They belong to the Romani subgroups Greek, Moldavian and Russian Kalderash , some Lovari and some Chilean Xoraxane. There are also Spanish Kalé and Boyash living in Argentina. Within the population totals, there may be an imprecise amount of mixed population. In one of
1128-560: The International Organization for Migration there have been about 806,369 since 2001. The first wave of emigration occurred during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983, principally to Spain, the United States, Mexico and Venezuela. During the 1990s, due to the abolition of visas between Argentina and the United States, thousands of Argentines emigrated to North America. The last major wave of emigration occurred during
1175-619: The Levantine region of Western Asia, from what is now Syria and Lebanon ; and from Cilicia and Palestine in a lesser extent. Due to the fact that many Arab countries were under control of the Ottoman Empire by the time the large immigration wave took place, most Arabs entered the country with Turkish passports, and so they are colloquially referred to as los turcos . There are also 80,000 to 135,000 descendants of Armenians in Argentina, most of them in Buenos Aires , representing one of
1222-591: The United Kingdom and Germany . The most popular immigration destinations in the Americas are: the United States and Brazil , and to a lesser degree, mostly to ( Uruguay and Canada ): Chile , Paraguay and Bolivia , while other communities settled in Venezuela , Peru , Colombia , Ecuador and Costa Rica . Israel is home to the largest Argentine diaspora in the Middle East. In Oceania, Australia has
1269-534: The 2001 crisis, mainly to Europe, especially Spain, although there was also an increase in emigration to neighboring countries, particularly Brazil, Chile and Paraguay. The rate of Argentine emigration to Europe (especially to Spain and Italy ) peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is noteworthy. Spain and Italy have the largest Argentine communities in Europe, however, there are also important communities in France ,
1316-503: The Argentine population with some degree of Sub-Saharan African descent would be around 7.5%. World Bank and Argentine government estimates have suggested the Argentine population with at least some African ancestry could number over 2 million, or between 4% and 6% of the population. Despite the fact that in the 1960s it was calculated that Argentina owed two thirds of the volume of its population to European immigration, over 5% of Argentines state they have at least one black ancestor, and
1363-452: The Chamber from 1989 to 1999 – being the longest-serving president of the Chamber of Deputies since the restoration of Argentine democracy in 1983. His tenure as president of the Chamber of Deputies was marred by a number of controversies, such as the infamous "diputrucho" incident, where a man who was not an elected member of Congress voted in place of an absent deputy. He was the sponsor of
1410-579: The North East and North West. Argentines of total or partial European descent constitute the majority of Argentina's population. Ethnic Europeans include the Argentine descendants of colonists from Spain during the colonial period prior to 1810, and mainly of immigrants from Europe in the great immigratory wave from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century. No recent Argentine census has included comprehensive questions on ethnicity, although numerous studies have determined that European Argentines have been
1457-481: The average Argentine gene pool according to Caputo et al. (2021) using X-DIPs (matrilineal). The average is Castizo (with Spanish and Italian ancestry): Large comprehensive studies across Argentina's many regions in order to characterize the genetic admixture have been lacking. Small sample size studies give the following composition. A team led by Daniel Corach conducted a study in 2010, analyzing 246 samples from eight provinces and three different regions of
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1504-539: The bill that mandated the creation of the National University of La Matanza in 1989. In 2003, he unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Buenos Aires Province as part of the Front for Loyalty, the electoral coalition backing Carlos Menem in that year's presidential election . This article about an Argentine politician is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Argentine Argentines are
1551-557: The company obtained a license for cable exploitation in the La Matanza district, which was extended for ten years from June 3, 2008. In April of that year, Telecentro launched the triple play service, Internet and landline telephony on the same network, with a single bill) for the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires under the "All in one" campaign. Through the COMFER resolution 562 of 1990, the company obtained its first license to operate as
1598-586: The corporate sector. Alberto Pierri Alberto Reinaldo Pierri (born 1948) is an Argentine businessman and former politician of the Justicialist Party . Pierri is the owner and managing director of Telecentro, one of Argentina's largest communications company. He served as a member of the National Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province during 16 years, and presided
1645-615: The country with the second-largest number of immigrants in the period, with 6.6 million, second only to the United States with 27 million. Therefore, most Argentines are of full or partial European descent (with a significant indigenous component, and a less prominent black component), and are either descendants of colonial-era settlers and/or of the 19th and 20th century immigrants from Europe . The most common ethnic groups are Caucasians (mostly Spanish and Italian descent) and/or Mestizos (mixed European and Native American ancestry). According to Argentine government websites, it
1692-428: The country. The results were as follows: the analysis of Y-Chromosome DNA revealed a 94.1% of European contribution, and only 4.9% and 0.9% of Native American and Black African contribution, respectively. Mitochondrial DNA analysis again showed a great Amerindian contribution by maternal lineage, at 53.7%, with 44.3% of European contribution, and a 2% African contribution. The study of 24 autosomal markers also proved
1739-583: The languages (such as Vilela , Puelche , Tehuelche and Selknam ). There are also other communities of immigrants that speak their native languages, such as the Chinese language spoken by at least half of the over 60,000 Chinese immigrants (mostly in Buenos Aires ) and an Occitan-speaking community in Pigüé, Buenos Aires Province . Welsh is also spoken by over 35,000 people in the Chubut Province . This includes
1786-573: The largest Armenian diasporas in the world. Although Spanish is dominant, being the national language spoken by virtually all Argentines, at least 40 languages are spoken in Argentina. Languages spoken by at least 100,000 Argentines include Amerindian languages such as Southern Quechua , Guaraní and Mapudungun , and immigrant languages such as German , Italian, English, French or Levantine Arabic . Two native languages are extinct ( Abipón and Chané ), while some others are endangered , spoken by elderly people whose descendants do not speak
1833-493: The largest African immigrant communities, numbering over 15,000; they mainly live in port cities in Buenos Aires Province , such as Ensenada and Dock Sud . Immigration from Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Angola and other African countries in recent decades has caused a surge in the country's black population as well. Argentines of Asian ancestry are defined as either born within Argentina , or born elsewhere and later to become
1880-399: The most comprehensive genetic studies involving the population of Argentina, 441 Argentines from across the North East, North West, Southern, and Central provinces (especially the urban conglomeration of Buenos Aires) of the country, it was observed that the sample population comprised on average of 65% European, followed by 31% Amerindian, and finally 4% of African ancestry; however, this study
1927-702: The national census does not solicit religious data), the actual size of Argentina 's Muslim community is estimated to be around 1% of the total population (400,000 to 500,000 members), according to the International Religious Freedom Report in 2015. Buenos Aires hosts the largest mosque in Latin America . Buenos Aires also features notable Greek , Armenian and Russian Orthodox churches, Presbyterian Korean and Anglican churches, as well as Buddhist temples, among other minority religions. According to official estimates there are 600,000 Argentines worldwide, and according to estimates by
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1974-435: The past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to the United States (27 million), and ahead of other immigrant destinations such as Canada, Brazil and Australia. Argentina is a multiethnic society , which means that it is home to people of many different ethnic, racial, religious, and denominational backgrounds. Argentina
2021-403: The people identified with the country of Argentina . This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Argentine . In the past the demonym for citizens of Argentina was mistakenly translated as Argentinians , a term that is no longer considered accurate. Argentina
2068-416: The same year, through resolution 2750/2006, former deputy Alberto Pierri, and Lisandro Pierri and Martín Pierri were authorized to join the share package. At the beginning of 2007 the company began to allow subscribers to access the digital television service. In April 2008, it launched the first triple play service (pay television, Internet and landline telephony on the same network, with a single bill) for
2115-439: The society.9 In the same year, through resolution 350/1998, she was allowed to extend her services to the parties of Almirante Brown and Lanús. In 1999, through resolution 192/1999, Telecentro was authorized to extend its services to the Buenos Aires districts of Quilmes, Florencio Varela, Berazategui, San Miguel, Pilar, San Martín, Ensenada, Berisso Party, San Isidro and José C. Peace. Since 2003, it has based its distribution on
2162-418: Was granted a license to operate a Coded Closed Circuit Television and a community television antenna in the district of La Matanza. In 1998, by means of resolution 261/1998, the share package was modified, terminating the original partners and entering the company with Olga E. Gargiullo with 80% of the package and Silvina V. Pierri with 20%, in the same resolution it was designated Olga Gargiullo as president of
2209-407: Was unweighted and meant to be a representation of the diversity of Argentine DNA rather than a demonstration of the average ethnic composition of the country. It was also found there were great differences in the ancestry amongst Argentines as one traveled across the country. A study by Daniel Corach that attempted to find the average Argentine ancestry by weighing the population of various regions gave
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