Venezuela awards new ISP license; Chilean investor acquires DirecTV assets

摘要

Venezuela's National Telecommunications Commission (Comision Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, Conatel) has awarded an ISP license to Conext Venezuela. The newcomer will initially serve the state of Zulia using fiber technology. Leonardo Chavez, a representative of the company, confirmed that Conext has made 'a significant investment in technological equipment and fiber-optics in order to provide a quality service to Venezuelan homes'. (Note: Conext is not thought to be connected to Carabobo-based ICT firm Corporacion Conex Telecom, which was founded in 2015 and went on to deploy a 900km fiber network.).