State TV CANTV (Compañía Anônima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela) said it will offer internet, landline and television services free of charge for 48 hours.
The company stated in a statement that the measure was taken “in response to the contingency situation generated by the recent earthquakes that occurred in the national territory”.
Two earthquakes destroyed several structures in , leaving people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck an area about 100 miles west of Caracas on Wednesday, followed less than a minute later by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, according to the US Geological Survey.
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, reported that at least 188 deaths had been confirmed and more than a thousand were injured.
the rubble of collapsed buildings in Caracas as night fell, as desperate family members sought help for loved ones feared trapped.
Survivors in a state of shock were removed from the scene, some on stretchers.
“When we went down, the scene looked like something out of a horror movie,” said Maria Alejandra, a resident of a neighboring building, who declined to give her last name.
“We had to climb over the rubble and everything. The building’s caretaker with the baby and all the neighbors coming down. But, from that building, I only saw that family manage to get out,” he added.
