Altán networks 2025 starts with a view to possessing a cell network with the traffic of 20 million Mexican consumers, all served by a quality cell network 4.5 LTE Advanced and in form for evolve at some point towards a 5G network.
This brand, which would be a milestone for any telecommunications company that was born on March 21, 2018, is being possible thanks to the Walmart Telefónica Bait and also for the work of a dozen more than Virtual mobile operatorsthat at the end of 2024 they accumulated, all of them, a total of 19.67 million users, whose communications travel on the Altán network.
Altán Networks is a company provider of wholesale telephone and internet services, to which third brands buy mobile data to relapse them later to final consumers. Altán operates a cell network known as the shared network, which uses the radio spectrum of the 700 MHz and where the Internet communications of those almost 20 million users travel.
Preliminary data from companies and other more discharged data in reports from the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV), indicate that through the Altán cell network they run today the communications of at least 19 million 670,000 users, numbers that in a few weeks will be strengthened by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) in its quarterly reports.
This Thursday, the Walmart supermarket chain unveiled a spectacular growth for its virtual mobile operator Bodega Aurrerá Internet and Telefonía or Bait, a brand that at the end of 2024 managed to serve 18.3 million consumers. The data means that, in a year, BAIT added 6.3 million mobile customers and 3.2 million users only in the last quarter of 2024.
Walmart says that these 18.3 million users have had activity in the last six months and that some of these accesses are fixed wireless Internet subscriptions placed in homes, with which more people would be knowing about the experience with Bait and Altán. Walmart also said that its active user base increased 55% in the year. All these clarifications are spoken by Walmart in his report by the signs of Bait’s competitors, regarding that cell phone company inflates its consumer base.
Despite the suspicions of competitive third parties, the Network Shared Network Today is enhanced by Bait’s growthbut also for the day to day of Newww, Diri Mobile, Edila, Vasanta, Flash Mobile, Telmóvil, Tobored, R & R Alternate Business, Wimo Telecom, Beneleit Mobile and the Megacable Cell Telefónica, which among all of them accumulated 1 million 370,000 users in 2024.
The Altán shared network is used by around 130 virtual mobile operators, but most of them do not yet report their data for the exercise of 2024.
Next to be located on or exceeded the brand of 20 million users served, the Altán Networks cell network today has at least 7.01% of the mobile voice traffic that generates the entire market, greater than 5.62% recorded by Telefónica Movistar and as that company reports its own numbers.
In the field AT&T It has 8.68% of traffic and Telcel77.75 percent. The rest of the voice minutes traffic is generated by the rest of the virtual companies.
As for mobile data traffic, Bait generates 118,302.90 terabytes. Movistar It is ahead, with 188,478,96 terabytes, and AT&T, with 286,234.66 teras. Telcel generates a traffic of 1 million 722,397.56 terabytes.
The novelty for Altán is that at least 10.67% of mobile internet accesses in Mexico run on their network, thanks to Bait de Walmart, above 7.39% achieved by Movistar, but still far from 15.07% of AT&T and 62.07 % of Telcel.
