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Chile International Dialing Code Is +56.

How To Call Chile: +56 - Area Code - Phone Number

• Call Easter Island: +56 - 32 - Phone Number
• Call Santiago: +56 - 2 - Phone Number

In 1988 it was decided that telecommunications market in Chile should have been liberalized and become competitive. Since, the sphere has become highly developed and up-to-date, and is now characterized as one of the most flexible and advanced in Latin America. Nine out of ten Chilean residents use mobile phone service, and it has a tendency to overpass fixed-line telephony in popularity. Competition in the mobile market is strongly regulated by the government, and its dedicated body Subtel, which is also responsible for appointing rates on landline and mobile calls and issuing reports on mobile operator activity and gains. Telecom companies use the up-to-date technologies, like 3G, to provide the best quality of services. Data transfer has also become popular, especially SMS sending. However, the users have shown a gradual decrease in number of subscriptions which consequently leads to decrease in companies' revenue. This explains the fact why Chile has stepped back in face of other countries relating to telecommunications sphere, though still being advanced in technology and characterized by almost absolute network coverage. The government is highly interested in the market's further development, so it encourages investments from the outside. It is also interested in gradually lowering the rates to make the services accessible.

As the market is highly advanced the players use different strategies to gain bigger revenues. The latest one is the introduction of postpaid phone service. Not only mobile calling is popular, but mobile broadband and GPRS has also gained more attention from the public. The four main operators are Movistar, Entrel, Claro and Nextel, with the last being the newest one. The market is led by Movistar, which has the largest share, Entel and Claro follow it. Movistar is forecasted to lead in the sphere for the next five years, but Entel and Claro will probably seize some of its share. As for Internet access in Chile, it is provided by several ISPs, one of them using cable technology and over a dozen employing ADSL. VTR, the only cable company, has rather low performance, and offers up to 8 Mbit/sec bandwidth for download. ADSL Internet providers are Telefonica DSL, Entel, Tutopia and some others. With quality and speed being rather high for Latin America, Chile offers rather high rates compared to that in North America and Europe.

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Best calling rate to Chile is 1.28.
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Best calling rate from Chile is 2.40.
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Calling to Chile related area(s): Antofagasta, Chile Mobile, Concepcion, Easter Island, Santiago, Valparaiso.