page_title: Empresas Públicas de Medellín
section_title: Telecommunications
hierarchical_section_title: Empresas Públicas de Medellín / Strategic business units / Telecommunications
caption_attribution_description: English: EPM investment portfolio
context_page_description: Empresas Públicas de Medellín was established on 18 November 1955 as a residential public utilities company which, initially, only served the inhabitants of Medellin, Colombia its hometown.
  EPM is the head of a group that consists of twelve companies and has equity participation in eight others in the electricity and water sectors. Its affiliate EPM Telecomunicaciones, which operates under the name UNE, controls seven other companies in various cities around the country.
  Organized as a state-owned, industrial and commercial enterprise, owned by the municipality of Medellin, EPM provides electricity, gas, water, sanitation, and telecommunications.
  EPM is present in following areas in Colombia: Antioquia, Bogotá, Manizales, Armenia, Pereira, Bucaramanga, Cúcuta, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Cali, and Quibdó.
  EPM international: in Panama, the company is implementing the Bonyic hydroelectric project through its affiliate Hidroecológica del Teribe.
context_section_description: This is UNE, an EPM Group company.
  Including all its affiliates, the company serves close to 70% of the urban population in Colombia.
  Fixed telephony: 2.096,000 lines
  Internet: 563,846 users
  Television: 755,000 users
caption: EPM investment briefcase.
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