ETB (company)
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| Colombian Telecomunications | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Founder | Jose Raimundo Martinez |
| Headquarters | Bogotá, Colombia |
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Area served
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Colombia |
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Key people
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Saul Kattan Cohel (CEO) Gustavo Petro (Bogota's mayor) |
| Products | Telephony TV Internet |
| Owner | Bogota's District |
| Website | ETB main page |
The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá, BVC: ETB) is one of the principal telecommunication companies in Colombia, principally in Cundinamarca and Villavicencio. In 2012 there were almost 2,000,000 telephone lines with this company.
Also, because ETB TV does not have coverage nationwide, they have an alliance with DirecTV Colombia in order to offer all services in the major cities of Colombia.
The company is the owner of the Alvaro Camargo de la Torre School and the Tomas Alva Edison School, providing education to employees' children.
ETB was created on August 28, 1884 when a Cuban, José Raimundo Martínez created the Colombian Telephone Company, or in Spanish, "La Compañia Colombiana de Telefonos (CTC)" . The company’s first headquarters was in the Arrubla Galleries, on the western side of the Plaza Bolívar, on 10th street and 8th avenue, Bogotá. In 1900, when they had 100 installed lines, a fire destroyed a good part of the Arrubla Galleries and taking with it the facilities and the main office of the Colombian Telephone Company. Six years later, they resumed provisional service by means of The Bogotá Telephone Company. The headquarters of the new company were located on 8th avenue and 20th street, where the principal offices of the company were located.
Although the concession offered for the exploitation of service to The Bogota Telephone Company was for 50 years, the continuous protests by the rate increases led the Council to decide that the municipality should acquire the Company. Thus, since 1932 the Administration of the city assumed control of the service of phone system and in 1940, by means of agreement 79 of the Council, the Telephone Company of Bogotá was created, a decentralized company and a hundred percent city-owned.
In 1961, the company entered into central operations with Usaquén, Bosa, Suba and Central Nariño. At the end of the 1970s, the company counted close to 400,000 users and since 1985 that figure has grown to 710,000. The 1990s, marked a time of great change for ETB. The name used for 52 years was modified. In 1992, the company became the Telecommunications Company of Bogotá to adapt with their social objective for diversifying their activities.
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