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

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

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

The company arrived in the country in a controversial way will offer 2,500 jobs, of which about 1,200 employees, the remaining 1,300 vacancies still available will be filled as soon as the company establishes itself in Colombia.

Since according to Chis Bannister he mentioned El Tiempo the idea is invest more than a billion dollars in the country over the next five years compete with 25% of the telecommunications market in Colombia. In turn, the idea is to install around eight thousand antennas in different areas of the country to expand coverage.

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

Through its social networks and Linked In business network, the telecommunications company has begun offering bacchantes in cities like Barranquilla to fill positions as Head of Systems Integration.

Other profiles required by Wom are purchasing specialist, lawyers, business executives, systems experts and sales executives.

The mobile phone market in Colombia

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

The company pointed out 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 hold a 23% market share. .

“The mobile phone sector in Colombia is static, the concentration of the mobile phone 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 El Tiempo newspaper.

In fact, in Colombia, in the last year there has been a controversy because the operators under the responsibility of Claro have denounced that the company has a dominant position in the telecommunications market of the country, therefore, according to them, the company would close the margin. competitiveness of the sector.

This was revealed by a study conducted by the Analysys Mason company, hired by Tigo Colombia Claro gets $ 59 pesos for every $ 100 that users pay for voice and data nationwideTherefore, the remaining $ 46 is to be distributed by the other companies, Dinero magazine reported.

“Claro’s competitors seek only unjustified regulatory advantages by avoiding investing and competing freely. They unduly press the government to make decisions that do not benefit Colombia or users. In reverse, Claro believes that the market is not distributed or distributed, it is a product gained or lost by competition and by the preference of users“Claro asserted in his defense, through a statement.

With regard to investments, the Superintendence of Companies found that, For 2019, Claro has invested only 18% of its total income, which would rank it as the operator with the lowest investments. D.and 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 leading the country, with 31.2 million lines in Colombia.

In the same report, the Mintic revealed this the other companies competing for the telecom market in Colombia are Movistar, which has 15.9 million lines, and Tigo, with 11.8 million lines in the country. The Virgin and Avantel operators are in fourth and fifth place, with 3 million and 2.3 million lines respectively.

Regarding earnings, 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.

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