Editing Uruguay (section)

=== Telecommunications ===
{{Main|Communications in Uruguay}}

The telecommunications industry is more developed than in most other Latin American countries, being the first country in the Americas to achieve complete digital telephone coverage in 1997. The system is government-owned, and there have been controversial proposals to partially privatize it since the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/02/Uruguay-privatization-scheme-jolted-by-opposition/8141717998400/|title=Uruguay privatization scheme jolted by opposition|website=UPI|language=en|access-date=13 January 2019|archive-date=14 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044556/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/10/02/Uruguay-privatization-scheme-jolted-by-opposition/8141717998400/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The mobile phone market is shared by the state-owned [[ANTEL]] and two private companies, [[Movistar]] and [[Claro Americas|Claro]]. The ANTEL has the largest market share at 49% of Uruguay's mobile lines.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Popov |first=Andrey |date=November 2023 |title=Mobile Network Experience Report |url=https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2023/11/uruguay/mobile-network-experience |access-date=19 October 2024 |website=Opensignal}}</ref> ANTEL has launched a commercial [[5G|5G network]] in April 2019<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tomás |first=Juan Pedro |date=2024-05-31 |title=Antel reaches 300 5G sites in Uruguay, targets 500 by 2025 |url=https://www.rcrwireless.com/20240531/5g/antel-reaches-300-5g-sites-uruguay-targets-500-2025 |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=RCR Wireless News |language=en-US}}</ref> with still continual development.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Srikapardhi |date=5 August 2023 |title=Antel Continues Expansion of 5G Network to More Areas |url=https://telecomtalk.info/uruguays-antel-continues-expansion-of-5g-rollout/845917/ |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=TelecomTalk |language=en-US}}</ref> While Movistar and Claro have only 30% and 21% of the market share, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-10 |title=Uruguay Telecommunications |url=https://www.trade.gov/market-intelligence/uruguay-telecommunications |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=International Trade Administration |language=en}}</ref> The [[Google Search]] engine accounted for 95% of total [[search engine]] market share in 2023–2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Engine Market Share Uruguay |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/uruguay |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=StatCounter Global Stats |language=en}}</ref>