The technical regulator ofcommunications in Chile is theMinistry of Transportation and Telecommunications, through theUndersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel).
Telephone and telegraph services started inChile in1879, three years afterAlexander Graham Bell, presented his patent for a telephonic system. José Dottin Husbands, an associate ofThomas Edison, arrived into the port ofValparaíso carrying the first set of switching equipment and telephones.[1] By 1880 the first telephone company of the country is born (Compañía Chilena de Teléfonos de Edison), while in 1893, after a rapid expansion in the northern regions of Chile, telephone services started operating in the south, thanks to the founding ofTelefónica del Sur (current dayGrupo GTD), a company created bya group of German immigrants that had previously settled in the area ofValdivia,Región de los Ríos.
