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Ecuador’s totals subscriber base to 11.3Mn

  • November 14th, 2008
  • 5:43 am

According to a report, Ecuador’s mobile service providers have grown their subscriber base to approximately 11.3 million in comparison to 9.65 million at this time last year.

Operator                     Subscribers (Million)
Porta                            7.67
Movistar Ecuador           2.95
Alegro PCS                   0.7

Three Mobile operators of Ecuador’s mobile market added 154,164 net new subscribers between them during the period of September. There were a total of 10.45 million GSM subscribers at the end of this month, or 92.5% of the country’s total.

Porta leads the market with 7.67mn subscribers at Sept-end (Ecuador)

  • November 11th, 2008
  • 7:18 am

According to the telecom supervisory body, Supertel, the Ecuadorian mobile operators ended the month of September with a total of 11.3mn subscribers compared to 9.65mn at end-September 2007.
Porta, a unit of America Movil, continues to top the charts with 7.67mn subscribers, followed by Movistar Ecuador with 2.95mn and locally owned Alegro PCS with 672,366 subscribers.
In the month of September nearly 154,164 subscribers to the Ecuadorian mobile market.

   

Ecuador rejects latest America Movil bid

  • April 21st, 2008
  • 2:21 pm

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa warned Mexican telecoms company America Movil that it must improve its second bid to hold onto a mobile operating contract or leave the country.

An Associated Press report quoted Correa in his weekly radio address saying that, “The first offer they presented us was a real insult to our intelligence. The second isn’t as bad, but it’s still far from what the concession is really worth.”

America Movil, Latin America’s largest mobile phone service provider, is owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. It has operated in Ecuador since 1993. Its concession expires in August, but two previous, undisclosed offers to renew the contract were rejected by Ecuador’s government. America Movil has made no comment on the situation.

In February President Correa announced that local units of America Movil and Spain’s Telefonica, which also runs mobile services in Latin America, must pay a combined total of €442 million (US$700 million) to renew operating contracts – 12 times the €36.6 million (US$58 million) they paid for their concessions in the 1990’s.

Telefonica agreed to pay €140 million (US$220 million) to extend its contract through to 2023, Correa said before threatening to hold an international auction for America Movil’s concession. He added that Slim’s company would not be allowed to bid unless it reaches an agreement within the next few weeks.

America Movil’s subsidiary, Porta, controls 68.8% of Ecuador’s mobile phone market, while Telefonica’s Movistar controls 26.8% and state-run Alegro PCS controls 4.4%, the report said.