Movistar in Peru

This page draws on OSIPTEL, Peru’s telecoms regulator, on what Telefónica and Movistar have published, and on the trade press, each with its date.

Who runs Movistar in Peru now?

Telefónica sold its Peruvian company on 13 April 2025. Its subsidiary Telefónica Hispanoamérica sold all its shares in Telefónica del Perú, about 99.3% of the capital, to Integra Tec International Inc. The price for those shares and Telefónica’s claim under a loan to the company came to about 3.7 million soles. Integra also undertook to make a public offer for the 0.7% held by minority shareholders. On the day of the sale, an insolvency procedure the Peruvian company had asked for was still waiting for approval from INDECOPI. On 10 June 2025 the company dropped the Telefónica name and became Integratel Perú S.A.A.

Is it still called Movistar?

Yes. When it took the new name in June 2025, the company said it served more than 13 million customers through the Movistar brand. In January 2026 its services still ran under the Movistar brand, and in October 2026 the website movistar.com.pe still sold its plans under that name. Movistar’s own blog names Integratel Perú as the holder of its new 5G spectrum. One trace of the old company remains: in October 2026 the small print of Movistar’s eSIM page still showed the name Telefónica del Perú S.A.A.

How many lines does Movistar carry?

At the end of June 2026, 18.95% of the 39.64 million mobile lines that had carried traffic in the past three months were on Movistar, by OSIPTEL’s count. In March 2026 the figure was 19.81%. In September 2026 Movistar gained 95,775 lines by number porting and lost 116,042, a net loss of 20,267.

Movistar’s 4G and 5G

Movistar’s 4G opened on 2 January 2014, on block A of the AWS band (1700 and 2100 MHz). The first areas were in Cercado de Lima, La Molina, Miraflores, San Borja, San Isidro, San Miguel and Santiago de Surco.

In April 2021 the transport ministry let Movistar deploy non-standalone 5G over its existing network, on spectrum it held in the 1.7 to 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands. Integratel then won 100 MHz in the 3.5 GHz band in the 2025 auction. From December 2025 to March 2026 Movistar built 5G at busy places in Lima and Callao, among them Jorge Chávez airport and the Estadio Nacional. Its plan for 2026 adds Cusco, Junín, Arequipa, Piura, La Libertad and Lambayeque. In January 2026 it announced new equipment at 2,000 base stations across eight regions, and said almost half its mobile traffic already ran on 5G.

The 2025 auction also binds Integratel to bring 4G to 437 rural localities and along 545 km of road corridors within four years of the contract.

eSIM on Movistar

Movistar sells eSIM lines. Its page sends you to a Movistar service centre for the eSIM, and you then scan the QR code you are given to download the profile. An eSIM line can run alongside one physical SIM, so a compatible phone can hold two lines at once.

Using a phone from abroad on a Peruvian SIM

A phone that is missing from the Renteseg whitelist, Peru’s national register of mobile handsets, can be blocked. OSIPTEL’s guide of 31 August 2026 sets out three steps for a phone bought abroad. Take the phone and your identity document to the operator’s service centre. Staff check the IMEI printed on the phone against the one it shows when you dial *#06#. Then you sign a sworn statement that the phone is for personal use and entered Peru legally. The registration costs nothing.

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