[2] Antel started deploying fiber to the home in Montevideo in 2012, aiming to switch 240,000 clients that year with a cost of US$180 million.

[3] Previous DSL subscribers keep their contract, or may switch to faster Internet Vera plans: 150/12 Mbit/s for US$72/month, 120/12 Mbit/s for $61/month, 60/10 Mbit/s for $49/month, or 30/4 Mbit/s for $32/month, throttled back to 10% of those speeds after a 700 / 350 / 400 / 150 GB cap.

[5] ANTEL, the Aeronautics and Space Research and Diffusion Center and the UdelaR launched the first national satellite for telecommunications in June 2014, the Antelsat.

[6] Antel has been granted monopoly power over most forms of communication carriage to consumers in Uruguay, clearly constraining the communication offerings by private companies: There are two notable communication technologies that have shown potential for increased private participation in recent years: In early August 2016 the Uruguayan supreme court issued a ruling in favor of cable TV company Monte Cablevideo S.A, declaring unconstitutional the law that made it unlawful for cable TV companies to offer Internet service.

)[8] Nevertheless, for almost 7 years after those supreme court rulings cable TV companies continued to be precluded by the government from offering Internet services in Uruguay.

[9] Indeed, in September 2023 three cable companies (TCC, Montecable and Nuevo Siglo) started offering Internet service in the La Blanqueada neighborhood of Montevideo.

Thus Uruguay basically repeated the "last democracy to sign up" (Venezuela thus excluded) performance it displayed in approving cable Internet service (see above.)

[13] For information on specific competitors to Antel in the services where competition is allowed, see Telecommunications in Uruguay The medium-term track record of Antel's finances when looked at in constant dollars is one of slightly decreasing revenue, slightly increasing profit, and generous profit margins all around.

As was (and in some countries like Uruguay still is) the case with state-owned telecom monopolies, Antel performs a significant revenue collection role for the Uruguayan state.