CANTV

Compañía Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV) was one of the first telephone service enterprises in Venezuela, founded in 1930. The company was re-nationalized in 2007. As of December 31, 2006, Cantv’s customer base numbered 8 million mobile subscribers, 3.4 million fixed telephony subscribers and 467,000 broadband subscribers. In 1930 the "Ministerio de Fomento" of the Gómez government granted a concession to Félix A. Guerrero to b... more

Compañía Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV) was one of the first telephone service enterprises in Venezuela, founded in 1930. The company was re-nationalized in 2007. As of December 31, 2006, Cantv’s customer base numbered 8 million mobile subscribers, 3.4 million fixed telephony subscribers and 467,000 broadband subscribers. In 1930 the "Ministerio de Fomento" of the Gómez government granted a concession to Félix A. Guerrero to build and operate a telephone network in the Federal District and the States of the Union. With fellow shareholders Manuel Pérez Abascal, an entrepreneur, and Alfredo Damirón, an attorney, they registered Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela on 20 June 1930. On 31 December it became the local operating company for the assets of the Venezuelan Telephone and Electrical Appliances Company Limited, an English firm which had been operating in Venezuela for 40 years between Caracas and Puerto Cabello, San Juan de Los Morros, Ocumare del... less