Claro Colombia is a Colombian telecommunications
operator, owned by
Mexican group
América Móvil
América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the 7th largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers and one of the largest corporations in the world. América Móvil is a ...
. Claro is the largest provider of mobile phone services in the country – as of December 2011, 28,818,791 of Colombia's 46,200,421 mobile phone subscribers (62.38%) were with Claro's predecessor, Comcel.
The company was formed on June 26, 2012 from the merger of
Comcel, previously Colombia's largest mobile phone operator, and the smaller
Telmex
Telmex is a Mexican telecommunications company headquartered in Mexico City that provides telecommunications products and services in Mexico. Telmex is still the dominant fixed-line phone carrier in Mexico. In addition to traditional fixed-line ...
, also owned by América Móvil. The unified company's name was changed to
Claro in keeping with its other operations in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
.
References
External links
Claro Colombia websiteAmérica Móvil website
Mobile phone companies of Colombia
Colombian brands
América Móvil
Colombian companies established in 2012
Telecommunications companies established in 2012
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