Claro Colombia is a
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
n telecommunications
operator, owned by
Mexican group
América Móvil. 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, 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 is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...
.
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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