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- Almendral S.A. is a Chile-based investment holding company primarily engaged in providing telecommunications, information technology, and digital connectivity services through its principal operating subsidiary, Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A. (Entel). Founded in 1918 and headquartered in Santiago, Chile, the company serves residential, business, enterprise, and wholesale customer segments across Chile and Peru. Almendral S.A. offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions, including: mobile telecommunications services, encompassing 4G LTE and nationwide 5G mobile voice, high-speed mobile broadband, data transmission, international roaming, and value-added mobile data services; fixed-line communications, comprising fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) optical broadband internet, voice-over-IP (VoIP), traditional fixed telephony, and digital television and streaming entertainment services; enterprise and business-to-business (B2B) information technology solutions, consisting of multi-cloud computing, data management, advanced cybersecurity, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, big data analytics, and digital transformation consulting; and wholesale carrier services, including national and international data transport, voice transit, and infrastructure capacity sharing. In recent strategic developments, the company has restructured its operational model by monetizing non-core passive infrastructure, completing the sale of its optical fiber-to-the-home network assets in Chile to ON*NET Fibra and executing similar fiber asset agreements in Peru to transition toward an open-access wholesale fiber commercialization strategy. Furthermore, the company concluded the strategic divestment of its data center facilities in Chile and Peru to Equinix, enabling Entel to reallocate capital toward core connectivity, customer-facing digital applications, the commercial expansion of its Entel Digital B2B unit, and the ongoing rollout of its 5G mobile network across its operational markets.