Claro (mobile phone network)

Claro

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Wireless services
Founded	2003
Headquarters	Flagship headquarters Brazil Local headquarters Argentina Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Uruguay
Key people	Daniel Hajj Aboumrad -CEO Carlos J. García Moreno -CFO Carlos Cárdenas -Exec LatAm Operations
Products	UMTS/HSDPA, CDMA, GSM, AMPS, Wireless Data Services, Push to Talk
Revenue	N/A
Number of employees	N/A
Parent	América Móvil
Website	www.claro.com

Claro Americas is part of América Móvil, a Mexican telecom group serving clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay. The company's name means "bright", "clear" or "of course" in Portuguese and Spanish.

Headquartered in Córdoba, Argentina, Claro was launched in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on March 25, 2008 in a rebranding of CTI Móvil. As of 31 March 2007^[update] the former served more than 12.8 million subscribers on CDMA/1XRTT and GSM/GPRS/EDGE wireless.

CTI Móvil purchased Hutchison Telecommunications Paraguay (which operated as "Port Hable") in July 2005 to begin serving customers in that country. As of 2006, Claro competed with international operators such as Tigo (Millicom), Personal (Telecom Argentina-Telecom Italia) and VOX (formerly KDDI. VOX was acquired in 2011 by the state landline company, COPACO). In these countries, the company used slogans such as "Es simple. Es Claro." ("It's simple. It's clear") and "Claro es Internet móvil de alta velocidad." ("Claro is high-speed mobile Internet.")

In Brazil, Claro was launched in 2003 with the merger of América Móvil-owned operators ATL (serving the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo), BCP (with service in São Paulo metropolitan area, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Ceará, Paraíba, Piauí and Rio Grande do Norte), Americel (operating in Acre, , Rondônia, the Brazilian Federal District, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul), Tess Celular (other areas of São Paulo state) and Claro Digital (serving Rio Grande do Sul).