About 8 times more phones in Chile to lines of Earth home

SANTIAGO-(Dow Jones) - there are approximately eight times more cell phones to Chile as lines of residential land, according to the Secretariat of telecommunications.

The number of phones in Chile has greatly increased in recent years - 12.4% in five years - the average annual growth because rate dropped on competition between suppliers of the pays.Mais cell cut-throat the number of fixed landlines withdrew 0.4% since 2005.

In June of this year, there were 17.6 million phones in the Andean nation and land lines residential 2.18 million, said telecommunications Secretariat.Chile has a population estimated at 17.1 million inhabitants, according to the national Institute of statistics, INE.

The unit local Spain, Telefonica Moviles SA (TEM), MoviStar, is more large cell provider in the country, with Entel PCS, a unit of Entel (ENTEL.SN) seconde.Claro, owned by Mexico America Movil (AMX) third East and Nextel holds a minority interest in wireless local telephone service market.
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