Industry Telecommunications Founded 26 September 1928 | ||
Predecessor Vía Trans Radio Chilena Key people David Leonard, Guillermo Ponce Products InternetCable televisionTelephony CEO Guillermo Ponce (Jan 2012–) Profiles | ||
VTR Globalcom S.A. is a Chilean telecommunications company. It is the country's largest provider of cable television with 1,008,746 subscribers (a 35.9% market share as of December 2014, which includes satellite television competitors). It is also the second largest provider of fixed broadband Internet access (37.2% market share) and fixed telephone service (20.7%), behind Telefónica, as of December 2014. It also has a tiny (0.44%, as of December 2014) participation in the mobile phone business, which is dominated by three other companies.
It is wholly owned by Liberty Global; Grupo Saieh's CorpGroup previously owned 20% until March 2014 when Liberty Global acquired the remaining 20% it didn't own.
VTR also owns Bazuca.com, a video rental services company, and —together with Turner Broadcasting System— CNN Chile, a 24-hour news channel based in Santiago.