The role of the state operator Antel -which is questioned by the promoters of the free market although they recognize the active role it has to develop ICT in the country- faces great challenges today which it seems to assume without pulse trembling. Besides having positioned Uruguay among the countries leading ICT penetration and quality in the provision of broadband (with an average of 3 Mbps), and having 1/3 of its mobile customer base in LTE (one million users); Antel reaches cable operators with different proposals to walk together the path of convergence.