Claro Americas - Guatemala

Guatemala

Claro was launched in Guatemala on September 7, 2006 as a rebranding of the Telgua owned PCS Digital and Alo de PCS brands. As of March 31, 2007 Claro in Guatemala had more than 5.2 million subscribers under this brand, with services on CDMA/1XRTT, GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA (some cities with HSPA) wireless technologies._{(The international brand is Claro, which means Clear and without problems.)}

It is the only provider with license to operate in both 900 and 1900 MHz spectra. The CDMA network operates only in the 1900 MHz band and the GSM/GPRS/EDGE network operates in both 900 MHz and 1900 MHz.

Claro Guatemala has launch the first UMTS/HSDPA (1900 MHz) network in Guatemala on April 16, with 1.8 Mbit/s of download, the network was update to the first UMTS/HSPA network as a trial for América Móvil, the network have coverage in all capital cities, reaching up to 40 cities with UMTS/HSDPA coverage and 7 cities with HSPA.