The market leader for local telephony is the incumbent Telefónica Chile (trading as Movistar). Its main competitors are VTR, the GTD group (including GTD Manquehue, GTD Telesat, Telsur, and Telcoy), Entel, and Claro. Apart from southern Chile, where Telsur has operated since 1893, Telefónica Chile was the only operator authorised to provide local fixed-line until 1980, when the government licensed Compañía Telefónica Manquehue (now GTD Manquehue) and Complejo Manufacturero de Equipos Telefónicos (CMET) to offer local telephony in parts of the Santiago metropolitan area. Entel entered the local telephony market in 1995 and VTR in 1997. Several other operators launched competing local services during the 1990s. A few companies (Will, Fullcom, Netline, and Quantax) launched services between 2005 and 2008 with fixed wireless or IP telephony offerings.

1. Key statistics 

2. Telecommunications market 

3. Regulatory environment

4. Fixed network operators

5. Telecommunications infrastructure

6. Broadband market

7. Mobile communications