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Mexico represents 21% of VAS sales in Latin America

Mobile value-added sales (VAS) in Mexico generated revenues of US$1 billion for mobile operators during the first quarter of 2011, said the second edition of MAVAM Mexico (Acision Monitor of Mobile Added Value).

According to the study, Mexico represents 21% of VAS sales in Latin America and is nowthe second-largest VAS market in the region. Brazil represents 18% and Argentina 36%.

Acsion also pointed out that value-added services were a great driving force for sales across the mobile industry in Mexico during the first quarter of 2011, growing 35% from the year-ago period. During the same time, voice services revenue only grew by 2%.

VAS in Mexico represented 28% of mobile services revenue, 3% above the regional average of 25%. Messaging services (SMS and MMS) represents 60% oflocal VAS business, and showed a growth of 27% in U.S. dollars. With US$ 626 million in SMS revenue inthe first quarter, Mexico is the largest market in LATAM for messaging.

Mobile broadband services showed the greatest increase in user adoption, with 65% growth, representing 22% of Mexico’s overall VAS business. Other VAS categories – including entertainment, mobile banking, social networking and instant messaging – grew by 33%.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, Americasrprescott@rcrwireless.com Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.