Ronaldo Miranda, Advanced Micro Devices’ (NYSE: AMD) president for Brazil and Latin America’s vice president since March, is celebrating. “We started 2011 with 7% of market share in laptops and consumer verticals in Brazil, and now we have 20%, which is higher than our goal of 15%,” he said during a news conference Tuesday.
The Brazilian carrier Vivo, owned by Spanish Telefónica, has had its commercial launch of the first HSPA+ network in Brazil. The telecom operator said...
Carlos Slim's América Móvil and AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telecommunications company by revenue, signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver enhanced communication services to multinational companies throughout Latin America and to so-called multilatinas around the world.
Brazilian carrier Oi (TNE) is expanding its business in neighboring Paraguay, where the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has authorized Oi to begin operations...
Top executives of three leading telecom companies in India have now written to the Indian Prime Minister over the issue of the controversial 3G roaming deals.
China's three largest wireless operators continued to show broad growth in October, posting a combined 12 million net customer additions during the month.
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AT&T’s (T) attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA appears to have hit another hurdle today as the Federal Communications Commission has reportedly asked for a...
Mobile phone users in Egypt are using American location-based social network Foursquare to "check in" throughout that country, including the tumultuous Tahrir Square, site of repeated...
Technology upgrades and spectrum management are a fact of life for mobile operators that are having to constantly update networks and rearrange spectrum assets...
In a recent draft of security policy, the Department of Telecom asks telecom operators in India to play a role in ensuring the security of the country's telecom networks.
The sentencing of a former telecom minster last week on bribery charges continues the troubled recent history of India's telecom agency and sector. Of the nine telecom ministers since 1996, four have faced serious corruption charges.
The number of broadband connections in Brazil reached 53.9 million in October, an increase of 68.4% compared with the same month last year, as the rate of broadband activations to more than one new access every second, Telebrasil reported.
Spanish telecom Telefónica has signed an agreement with China Unicom to use each other's networks to expand their coverage. The agreement builds on a previous deal and extends and reinforces Telefónica's footprint by sharing the use of points of presence on their international networks.
As the holiday shopping season gets under way this week, merchants can expect to see more transactions completed using wireless devices. A survey conducted...
China Mobile (CHL) continued to accumulate customers at a breakneck pace, reporting it added more than 5.3 million net customers in October. The growth...
India's GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in the month of October, an increase of 1.15% from the previous month, bringing the country's GSM subscriber base to 625.41 million.
A recent study of the Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication (Brasscom) shows what was already known: Brazil lacks skilled workers. The country will need an additional 750,000 IT professionals to keep pace with increasing demand, Brasscom says.
India's federal investigation agency has registered a case against the country's two top telecom companies and a former Telecom Secretary for alleged irregularities in the allocation of spectrum during 2001-2003 when the late Pramoj Mahajan was telecom minister.
As the words "4G LTE" become increasingly attractive to smartphone buyers, carriers and handset makers are focusing on the tests that qualify their products...
