Entel was started in 1964 by the Chilean government at the time to improve long distance , improve telecommunications quality within the country and build a network trunk to replace the old infrastructure badly damaged by an earthquake . Entel installed microwave networks in almost the entire national territory and built in 1968 a satellite station in Longovilo 40 miles south west of Santiago , a Latin American first
earthquake
1960 Valdivia earthquake
Entel (Chile)