ETB (company)

The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá, BVC: ETB) is one of the principal Telecomunication's company in Colombia, principally in Cundinamarca and Villavicencio. In 2012 there was almost 2,000,000 telephone lines in this company.
Also, because the ETB TV does not have coverage in all national territory, they have an alliance with DirecTV Colombia so can offer all services in the principal cities of Colombia.
The company is the owner of the Alvaro Camargo de la Torre School and the Tomas Alva Edison School; they handle of the son's workers of the enterprise.
History
ETB was created on August 28, 1884 when a Cuban, José Raimundo Martínez created the Colombian Telephone Company, or in Spanish, "La Compañia Colombiana de Telefonos (CTC)" . The company’s first headquarters was in the Arrubla Galleries, on the western side of the Plaza Bolívar, on 10th street and 8th avenue, Bogotá. In 1900, when they had 100 installed lines, a fire destroyed...