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ICTs and Media Companies
TIGO
Ignacio Baratelli
CEO El Salvador
World Trade Center 1, Col. Escalón,
San Salvador
Tel: (+503) 2280 9425
dsalas@tigo.com.sv
www.tigo.com.sv
Activity: Telecommunications Company
Date of creation: 2004
Employees: 1100
TIGO is the new brand of TDMA and GSM net
and services that Milicom International Cellular
S.A. (MIC) launched on the market in the area of
cellular telephony in its Latin American (El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay) operations.
TIGO not only works with mobile phones, where they
are the absolute leaders with 3 million clients and
48% of the market share, but they also have fixed
telephones , cable T.V. (thanks to AMNET Company)
and all types of Internet services. They are also
developing ways of payment for utilities and other
services through mobile phones. It is a company that
builds services through technology.
Milicom International Cellular S.A. (MIC), with
headquarters in Luxemburg, has 17 cellular
operations in different countries of South-West Asia,
South Asia, Central America, South America and
Africa. The MIC operations link approximately 392
million people around the world. TIGO’s commitment
is to bring the best signal, the most GSM coverage
with the most convenient services of the market. The
latest generation GSM new network on 850Mhz.
frequency allows its clients to send multimedia
messages (images + sound + text), send photos,
surf internet, hook up a telephone to a PC and many
more services.
Among the services it offers is the Control Plan,
which are three new hybrid plans that allow monthly
expenditure control, since once the person’s balance
ends he/she can recharge.
Surfing plans for TIGO on-line. To surf from any
TIGO phone on-line, check electronic mail, seek
information, access social networks or simply to
access internet from a cellular.
BlackBerry™, leader in wireless solutions worldwide
offers their users a wide range of applications
through diverse BlackBerry cellular devices with
different mobile solutions to satisfy particular needs
of different segments:
Corporative: Offering options designed to satisfy
company requirements; keeping executives
connected who are away from their offices because
of their jobs and need a solution that allows
them to be connected to their e-mails and other
systems within the company, maximizing time and
productivity.
Individual: Offering options to help maintain contact
with work activities at home.
This solution offers users wireless access with an
array of applications.
MAIN MEDIA COMPANIES
AND INSTITUTIONS
EDITORIAL ALTAMIRANO MADRIZ, S.A. (EL
DIARIO DE HOY) – ALTAMIRANO MADRIZ
PUBLISHER, S.A.
Fabricio Altamirano
Director
11 Calle Oriente 271, San Salvador
Tel: (+503) 2231 7900
Fax: (+503) 2271 2346
fabricioaltamirano@yahoo.com
www.elsalvador.com
Activity: Newspaper and Publishing Company
Date of Foundation: 1936
Since its foundation by Napoleón Viera Altamirano
and Mercedes Madriz de Altamirano, it offers a true
and correct view of reality of the country here and
abroad. Currently, El Diario de Hoy is one of the two
newspapers of reference in El Salvador.
In a country like El Salvador, it is fundamental to have
an institution such as El Diario de Hoy, a newspaper
with a long tradition, which has recounted the
history of El Salvador for more than 70 years. The
newspaper is considered the fourth power of the
country and through its best weapon, freedom of the
press, has uncovered numerous corruption cases
and other scandals on a national level.
Throughout its history, whether during a dictatorship
or now it has not given in to intimidations of the