Apply to the 1,300 vacancies for Colombians offered by Wom, the new mobile operator that arrived in the country

The telecommunications company Wom became the new mobile services operator in the Colombian market on Thursday, November 5, the company still has more than 1,300 job vacancies available for citizens from different regions of the country.

Wom officially arrived in Colombia to compete with large mobile telephony such as Claro, Movistar and Tigo. On Thursday night the company decided to hold a launch event at the Salitre Mágico park in Bogotá.

The company that arrived in the country in a controversial way will offer 2,500 jobs, of which about 1,200 have been employed, the other 1,300 vacancies that are still available will be filled as the company establishes itself in Colombia.

Since according to Chis Bannister he mentioned El Tiempo the idea is invest in the country more than a billion dollars in the next five years to compete with 25% of the telecommunications market in Colombia. At the same time, the idea is to install about 8,000 antennas in different areas of the country to expand coverage.

The offer of jobs will not remain only for Bogotá, but will be divided into other capitals of the country such as Medellin, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Cali, Bucaramanga in addition to the capital of the country.

Through its social networks and the Linked In employment network, the telecommunications company has begun to offer bacchantes in cities like Barranquilla to occupy positions such as Head of Systems Integration.

Other profiles requested by Wom are purchasing specialist, attorneys, business leaders, systems experts, and sales executives.

The mobile phone market in Colombia

Wom belongs to the investment fund Novator Partners, with a presence in Iceland, Poland and Chile, which last year participated in the auction of the 700 MHz, 1,900 MHz and 2,500 MHz spectrum, and also won the majority stake in the mobile phone operator, Avantel.

The company emphasized that, with their arrival in the country, they hope to expand the telecommunications market in Colombia, as they did in Chile in 2015, where, according to the company, they already have a 23% market share. .

“The mobile telephony sector in Colombia is static, the concentration of the mobile market has delayed key investments for the country’s development. Colombia has one of the highest prices per GB in the region. The country needs a fourth operator to promote change and improve access to connectivity for all Colombians“Bannister said at the launch, according to the newspaper El Tiempo.

In fact, in Colombia, in the last year there has been a controversy because the operators that are the competence of Claro, denounced that the company has dominance in the country’s telecommunications market, so that, according to them, the company would be closing the competitiveness margin in the sector.

A study carried out by the firm Analysys Mason, hired by Tigo Colombia, revealed that Claro obtains $ 59 pesos of every $ 100 that users pay for voice and data nationwideTherefore, the remaining $ 46 must be distributed by the other companies, Dinero magazine reported.

“Claro’s competitors only seek unjustified regulatory benefits avoiding investing and competing freely. They unduly pressure the Government to make decisions that do not benefit Colombia or users. Conversely, Claro considers that the market is not distributed or distributed, it is gained or lost product of the competition and the preference of the users“Said Claro in his defense, through a statement.

Regarding investments, the Superintendency of Companies revealed that, For 2019, Claro only invested 18% of its total income, which would classify it as the operator with the lowest investments. De in accordance with the latest quarterly report of the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (Mintic), published in September this year, Claro is the mobile service provider that leads the country, with 31.2 million lines in Colombia.

In the same report, the Mintic disclosed that The other companies that compete for the telecommunications market in Colombia are Movistar, which has 15.9 million lines, and Tigo, with 11.8 million lines in the country. Operators Virgin and Avantel rank fourth and fifth, with 3 million and 2.3 million lines, respectively.

Regarding earnings, the Mintic reported that, in the first quarter of 2020, Claro earned 376.1 billion from voice traffic; Movistar raised 152,700 million pesos, Tigo received 128,700 million and Avantel 20.9 billion pesos.

Thus, with the highest number of earnings and available lines from Claro in Colombia, and two other operators leading telecommunications, Bannister considers that “Colombians do not have the telecommunications service they deserve, that is what we want to change in the coming years”, And therefore, his strategy on his arrival in Colombia will be improve the prices of mobile plans; that is, the new competitor maintains, give more to the user for a lower price.