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Copaco says new low-price service will encourage ADSL take-up (Paraguay)

  • September 10th, 2007
  • 2:29 pm

Paraguay’s state-backed fixed line operator Copaco says it expects to have signed up 10,000 broadband internet subscribers by the end of this year. The firm currently has around 6,000 ADSL customers. It says it is launching a new broadband tariff later this month which will offer a fixed number of minutes of internet use each month for around USD20; its existing unlimited use plan costs USD25 a month.Copaco’s commercial director Hugo Sosa says he is confident that the new product will lead to a significant expansion of the company’s broadband subscriber base. Paraguay has one of South America’s lowest internet penetrations, with a market which is still controlled by the state-run incumbent and has little room for alternative providers.

   

 

 

 

 

 

Copaco says cable theft costing USD1m

  • February 8th, 2007
  • 12:53 pm

Telegeography writes…Paraguay’s monopoly fixed line operator Copaco says it is losing USD1 million a year through the theft of copper telephone wire and fibre-optic cables. The firm says the worst affected areas are the cities of Hernadarias, Ciudad del Este and Minga Guazú. BNamericas, citing local newspaper La Nación, quotes Héctor Martínez, the head of Copaco’s technical department, who says that the thefts are mainly due to organised gangs. The telco has around 360,000 wireline customers and plans to deploy another 135,000 lines this year.