Andorra Telecom is the sole operator of land telephone, mobile telephone, pay television and Internet in

Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A ...

, a

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. It is a

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owned by the Andorran

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. AT also manages the technical infrastructures of

digital terrestrial television Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television, in which television stations broadcast television content in a digital signal, digital format. Digital terrestrial television is a major technologica ...

in Andorra, taking both the national television channels and some Spanish and French DTT channels to the whole territory. It also has a deal with the Spanish company

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to offer the pay platform Movistar Plus+ in Andorra. In October 2018, it had 38,464 fixed telephone lines contracted, 81,697 mobile telephone lines and 34,624 Internet lines, all of them through FTTH, becoming a pioneer country where all their citizens have access to the Internet through

optical fiber An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic communications, where they permit transmission over longer distances and at ...

. The company is managed by a board of directors responsible before the General Council for the management, direction and representation of the service, also the administration and regulation of its assets and resources.

Services

*Broadcast through deals between other television channels: **All the channels broadcast in Spain by the Movistar Plus+ platform (family package). **All the channels broadcast by the Movistar Plus+ platform (family package) at a regional level in

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. **All the channels broadcast on DTT in Andorra.

References

External links

* Communications in Andorra Companies of Andorra Telecommunications companies established in 1975 {{Andorra-stub