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| Company type | Public |
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| BVC: TDV.D | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | June 20, 1930 |
| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
Key people | Manuel Fernández[1] (President) Ernesto Paiva (CEO) |
| Products | Wireline and wireless telecommunication Internet service provider |
| Parent | Government of Venezuela |
| Subsidiaries | Cantv.net Caveguías Movilnet |
| Website | www.cantv.com.ve |
CANTV (Compañía Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela) is the state-run telephone and internet service provider in Venezuela. It was one of the first telephone service enterprises in the country, founded in 1930. The largest telecommunications provider in Venezuela, it was privatized in 1991, and re-nationalized in 2007 by Hugo Chavez.
As of May 9, 2008, Cantv’s customer base numbered 10.1 million mobile subscribers, 5.2 million fixed telephony subscribers and 1 million broadband subscribers.[2]
- ^ CANTV, Presidentes de Cantv Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Cantv Resultados Q1 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2009-11-06.