December 2010

Business News Americas | Patrick Nixon | December 30, 2010 Video conferencing technology provider Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) expects to grow above the market average of 30% in Latin America in …

Taipei Times | By Lisa Wang | December 28, 2010 Taiwan Mobile Co (台灣大哥大), the nation’s No. 2 telecoms carrier, yesterday unveiled a new digital Internet TV service and other …

ILS Press Release | December 29, 2010 RESTON, Va. & MEXICO CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 …

Bloomberg | Ketaki Gokhale | December 30, 2010 Tech Mahindra Ltd., partly owned by BT Group Plc., plans to acquire software companies in Latin America to help more than double …

International Business Times | By Jesse Emspak | December 23, 2010 China Tel will be putting $62 million into selling internet protocol telephony in Peru, via its subsidiary Perusat. The …

PC Mag | Sara Yin | December 30, 2010 Skype may soon join Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube on China’s Internet blacklist. Today, The People’s Daily, a Communist Party-run newspaper, declared …

DigiTimes | December 29, 2010 | Marvin Ma, Taipei; Adam Hwang KKBOX Taiwan, an operator of online streaming music services in Taiwan, and in the Hong Kong market through cooperation …

Lanka Business Online | Jayantha Kovilagodage | December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to delay a move to restrict the number of mobile phone SIM …

The Himalayan Times | December 29, 2010 KATHMANDU: Teletalk Pvt Ltd has launched two new Spice mobile phones: M-5262 and M-5170. M5262 is a multi-SIM phone.”Its wide screen gives a …

TeleGeography | December 30, 2010 | Thailand Thai cellco True Move, part of domestic integrated telecoms operator True Corp, has announced in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand …

Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2010 | Rogerio Jelmayer SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–Shares of Universo Online SA (UOLL4.BR), or UOL, Brazil’s largest Internet provider by revenue, were up during …

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has released the E398 modem, which claims to be the first tri-mode LTE modem. The E398 modem supports LTE, 3G and 2G network technologies. The Chinese …

Reuters | Elzio Barreto | December 28, 2010 (Reuters) – Shares of Brazil’s largest mobile phone company Vivo jumped on Tuesday after the company unveiled plans to be integrated into …

Market Itellisearch | December 28,2010 | Leo Goldman NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) — Telecom Argentina S A options saw heavy call activity today. A total of 114 call and 73 …

Adveriser Talk | December 2010 CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18 percent in the number of …

Xiong Tong | Xinhuanet News | December 29, 2010 RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Online Christmas sales in Brazil reached 2.2 billion reais (1.3 billion U.S. dollars) in …

Jakarta Globe | December 28, 2010 | Shirley Christie XL Axiata, one of Indonesia’s largest cellular operators, plans to spend Rp 4.5 trillion ($500 million) to invest in its growth …

TeleGeography | Thailand | December 29, 2010 The Thai Cabinet has approved state-owned CAT Telecom’s decision to cancel a plan to buy 100% of its Bangkok-based ‘Hutch’ branded CDMA mobile …