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A telecommunications company (historically known as a telephone company) is a company which provides broadband and/or telephony services.

The telecommunications companies of the Americas are listed below:

Argentina

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Aruba

Fixed-line operators

SetarNV

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)
SetarNV

Bahamas

Fixed-line operators

Liberty Latin America as BTC

Mobile operators

BTC
aliv

Barbados

Fixed-line operators

Liberty Latin America as LIME (Cable & Wireless Communications)

Mobile operators

Digicel (Barbados) Limited (Digicel Group)
Ozone Wireless
WiNET

Belize

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Bolivia

Fixed-line operators

National operators

Entel (ENTEL S.A.) (private, over 97% shares owned by Ministry of Public Works, Services and Housing)
AXS (AXS Bolivia S.A.) (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz and Cochabamba only)

Regional cooperatives

COTEL R.L. (La Paz Department)
COMTECO R.L. (Cochabamba Department)
COTAS R.L. (Santa Cruz Department)
COTES R.L. (Chuquisaca Department)
COTAP R.L. (Potosí Department)
COTEOR R.L. (Oruro Department)
COSETT R.L. (Tarija Department)
COTEAUTRI R.L. (Beni Department)
COTECO R.L. (Pando Department)
COTERI R.L. (Riberalta)
COTEGUA R.L. (Guayaramerín)
COTABE R.L. (Bermejo)
COTEVI R.L. (Villazón)
COTEMO R.L. (Santa Ana de Yacuma)
COSEU R.L. (Uyuni)

Mobile operators

Entel (ENTEL S.A.)
Viva (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia S.A.) (Balesia and COMTECO)
Tigo Bolivia (TELECEL S.A.) (Millicom)

Brazil

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Canada

Fixed-line operators

Main article: List of Canadian telephone companies

Mobile operators

Main article: List of Canadian mobile phone companies

Chile

Fixed-line operators

Claro HFC (América Móvil)
CMET
Entelphone (Entel)
Gtd Manquehue (GTD)
Gtd Telesat (GTD)
Rural Telecommunications Chile S.A. (RTC)
Telefónica (formerly CTC)
Telefónica del Sur (GTD)
VTR (Liberty Global)

Mobile operators

Claro (América Móvil)
Entel PCS (Entel)
Movistar (Telefónica)
Virgin
WOM

Colombia

Fixed-line operators

Azteca
Emcali
ETB
Telefónica Telecom
UNE EPM (formerly EPM – Empresas Públicas de Medellín)

Mobile operators

Avantel
Claro Colombia (América Móvil)
ETB (via Tigo network)
Móvil éxito (Grupo Éxito) (via Tigo network)
Movistar (Telefónica)
Tigo Colombia (Millicom, ETB, EPM)
Uff Móvil (Bancolombia, Grupo Ardila Lulle) (via Tigo network)
UNE (EPM)
Virgin Mobile (via Movistar network)

Costa Rica

Fixed-line operators

Grupo ICE
RACSA-ICE (Grupo ICE)
VoCex (R&H Telecom)
Tigo (Millicom)
Liberty (Liberty Latin America)
Telecable
CoopeGuanacaste

Mobile operators

Claro (América Móvil)
kölbi (Grupo ICE)
Liberty (Liberty Latin America)
Tuyo (MVNO ICE Network)
Full Móvil (MVNO Racsa, ICE Network)

Cuba

Fixed-line operators

ETECSA

Mobile operators

CUBACEL

Curaçao

Fixed-line operators

UTS Curaçao

Mobile operators

Dominican Republic

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Ecuador

Fixed-line operators

CNT EP

Mobile operators

El Salvador

Fixed-line operators

Telefónica

Mobile operators

French Guiana

Fixed-line operators

Telesur

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)

Grenada

Fixed-line operators

Liberty Latin America as LIME

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)
LIME

Guadeloupe

Fixed-line operators

Outremer Telecom

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)

Guatemala

Fixed-line operators

A-Tel (America Telephone)
Americatel Guatemala (Entel (Chile))
AT&T Guatemala (AT&T Inc.)
Cablenet SA
Empresa Guatemalteca de Telecomunicaciones (GUATEL) (state-owned)
Telecomunicaciones de Guatemala (América Móvil)
Telecomunique Guatemala (Telecomunique)
Claro (América Móvil)

Mobile operators

Guyana

Fixed-line operators

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company

Mobile operators

Haiti

Fixed-line operators

Natcom S.A (formerly Teleco S.A)

Mobile operators

Comcel Haiti (acquired by Digicel Group in April 2012)
Digicel (Digicel Group)
My Haiti Mobile (My Haiti Mobile)

Honduras

Fixed-line operators

Hondutel

Mobile operators

Jamaica

Fixed-line operators

FLOW, newly merged entity combining the old Flow and LIME; owned by Cable & Wireless Communications, a Liberty Latin America company
Digicel Play, a new fibre to the home network owned by Digicel Group

Wireless broadband operators

DEKAL Wireless, a municipal Wi-Fi network owned by Cable & Wireless Communications and operated by FLOW Jamaica
Caricel, a new Jamaican owned startup, soon to offer fixed and mobile broadband via an LTE-A network
Digicel, through their WiMAX network (which is currently being upgraded to TDD-LTE)

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)
FLOW (owned by Cable & Wireless Communications, a Liberty Latin America company)

Martinique

Fixed-line operators

Orange (Orange S.A.)

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)

Mexico

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Nicaragua

Mobile operators

Claro (América Móvil)
TIGO
NICATEL
TELCOR
Megacom
JM Nicaragua

Panama

Fixed-line operators

Cable & Wireless Panama (CWC)

Mobile operators

Paraguay

Fixed-line operators

Copaco

Mobile operators

Peru

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands

Fixed-line operators

Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT-Claro) (América Movil)
Liberty Puerto Rico (Liberty Latin America)
San Juan Cable/Liberty Cablevision Puerto Rico (Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico – before: OneLink Communications, Inc.) (uses VOIP)
Liberty Cablevision Puerto Rico (uses VOIP)
Choice Cable TV (uses VOIP)

Mobile operators

Centennial Wireless (Centennial Communications)
Claro Puerto Rico (mobile phone network) (América Móvil)
Liberty Puerto Rico (Liberty Latin America)
T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom)
TracFone Wireless (América Móvil)
Open Mobile Puerto Rico

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Fixed-line operators

LIME

Mobile operators

Saint Lucia

Fixed-line operators

Cable & Wireless/LIME
Karib Cable

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Fixed-line operators

LIME

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)
NTRC

Suriname

Fixed-line operators

Telesur

Mobile operators

Airtel
Digicel (Digicel Group)

Trinidad and Tobago

Fixed-line operators

Mobile operators

Digicel (Digicel Group)
bmobile (TSTT & Cable & Wireless)
BICS

United States

Further information: List of United States telephone companies and List of United States wireless communications service providers

Fixed-line operators (over $10 billion annual revenues)

Fixed-line operators ($1 to $10 billion annual revenues)

Altice (Cablevision, Lightpath, and Suddenlink Communications)
Cable One Sparklight
Cincinnati Bell (acquired Hawaiian Telcom)
Consolidated Communications (acquired FairPoint Communications)
Crown Castle International Corp. (acquiring Lightower)
Frontier Communications
Granite Telecommunications
GTT Communications (Acquiring Interoute)
IDT Corporation
Mediacom
Telephone and Data Systems (includes subsidiaries TDS Telecom and U.S. Cellular, will be sold to Telenor)
Windstream Communications (acquired EarthLink)
Zayo Group
WideOpenWest

Fixed line operators ($100 million to $1 billion annual revenues)

Fixed line operators (less than $100 million annual revenues)

PMC Telecom

Mobile operators

Uruguay

Fixed-line operators

ANTEL

Mobile operators

Venezuela

Fixed-line operators

CANTV

Mobile operators

See also

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