Talk:CANTV

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I've merged what information I could from the subsidiary articles and redirected them here. Babelfish can't help me with translating the corporate home page because most of it is done in Flash. A little assistance would be great.  RasputinAXP  c 17:23, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Notice in the quote "novel technological platform encompassing the whole country allows us to meet the growing demand" (bold added)-shows this is obviously cut from a PR advertisement from the company. In order to make sure this is neutral, such language will need to be rewritten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.4.59.137 (talk) 15:49, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

"When the company was privatized in 1991, the company transformed into a competitive company, with high quality supply of its products and services. [...] All of them focused with a deep knowledge of the necessities of its clients." Advertisement? I mean, the problem is due to solve itself, but this is not an encyclopedic article.

some restructuring

I made some changes, moving around some text and rewriting parts. I added a POV template to a section that was originally cut/pasted from the 2006 [annual report] of the company. This explains the "us" referring to the company itself. I left that in on purpose, so not to mask the source of the statement. If someone feels like it, they can rewrite the whole section to NPOV language. László (talk) 16:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

history of the entity

I was going to include a reference to Cantv's own description of its history from its corporate website here ; unfortunately many of its dates and claims are fictitious. They are wildly at odds with contemporary newspaper reports in the London Times or the annual reports to shareholders filed by Venezuela Telephone And Electrical Appliances Company, and its successor Telephone Properties Ltd. which was wound up a year after nationalization (which, for example, happened in 1953, not 1950 as Cantv's website claims). These reports only make reference to a British Managing director, Bailey, and local staff in general terms, leaving me uncertain as to the notability of Félix A. Guerrero and his compadres. Ephebi (talk) 10:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Movilnet

This is from my memory, with the expectation that this might help others find the proper references for this article.

I don't think Movilnet's beginning is as described in the article. Movilnet started by deploying analog (AMPS) technology. Quite a few years later, it was the first cellular operator to deploy D-AMPS (TDMA) technology for their network. They launched the network with the Nokia 2160 as the principal handset because of its dual mode capability. Nokia cites the introduction of this model in 1996, so probably this is closer to the actual introduction of TDMA. The initial network tuning took perhaps 6 months.

As TDMA became obsolete, a transition to CDMA was agreed -- with strong pressure from Verizon. The CDMA implementation went the 1X to EVDO path, as usual. Eventually, it was decided to drop CDMA in favor of GSM/EDGE/UMTS, a transition that has been in proces during the last few years.

Today, the network is operating with CDMA and EDGE coverage in most of the country, with strong indoor (and even underground!) coverage in most of the important cities. --200.84.244.194 (talk) 05:10, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:

This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:

1. There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:18, 19 June 2013 (UTC)