Guatemala’s Continental Towers will receive an investment that will help it build and maintain mobile-phone towers across Central America, increasing mobile-phone coverage and reducing communication costs. IFC, a member of …
While m-banking has not taken off in Brazil and other Latin American countries yet, in Haiti, Digicel’s mobile money service, named TchoTcho Mobile, and Voila’s T-Cash have reached 5 million …
Following its partnership with Chile’s Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) to offer mobile services, the German software company SAP announced it has teamed up with the Colombian UNE EPM. The carrier …
A Brazilian company, controlled by the private equity investment group Apax Partners, is betting on a new business model—one which does not require end users to access their data plan each …
China-based telecom equipment provdier Huawei signed a statement of commitment with Brazil’s Ministry of Communications (Minicom) focused on the development of new technologies to support broadband services using the 450 …
Vietnam’s largest mobile operator Viettel, which is set to launch its operations in Peru next year, taped ZTE to deploy a 2G/3G wireless network across its Peru operations. According to …
Almost half a million Colombian people chose to keep their numbers when switching telecom operators since the mobile number portability law was enacted in the country. According to the Communications …
Born during the mid-1990s in Western Europe, prepaid mobile services’ impact on subscriber growth has been unprecedented. This unexpected growth has had several consequences:
Brazilian carrier Oi announced it has chosen Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft as its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) vendors. Oi expects to launch IPTV services during the second half of this year. …
The machine-to-machine market gained significant momentum today as seven mobile operators entered into an alliance to collaborate on services. The carriers – KPN, NTT DoCoMo; Rogers Communications; SingTel; Telefónica, through its …
In an age of digital and mobile services, where end users now demand personalization and real-time interaction, customer experience management will be key to operators retaining and winning customers.
For anybody involved in the communications market in Latin America, the excitement and buzz is hard to miss. The FIFA World Cup Games will dominate Brazil in 2014.
Mexican mobile telecommunications account for 57.1% of the total telecommunications revenue in Mexico, representing 58.323 million Mexican pesos (U.S.$4.38 million) in the first quarter of 2012, an annual growth of …
South America is on TE Connectivity’s telecom radar. The company just launched a manufacturing plant for telecommunication networks located in the countryside of São Paulo state in Brazil with an equipment …
The percent of Uruguay’s population with access to information and communication technologies has grown. According to Uruguay‘s National Institute of Statistics (INE) the total inhabitants who owned PCs (laptops included) …
Almost one year after acquiring the Wi-Fi company Vex, Brazilian telecom carrier Oi announced that it has integrated both companies’ networks. As part of the integration, Oi changed the name …
A recent survey from Grant Thornton U.K., prepared by Experian, placed Brazil among the top most attractive countries for information and communication technology (ICT) business investment and expansion. “The huge potential …
Spanish Telefónica said it will make a multi-million-euro investment to kick start mobile advertising in Brazil, using the O2 media model that was successful in the U.K. as a blueprint. …
After launching its mobile device management (MDM) platform, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion in the U.S., the Canadian Research in Motion (RIM) gathered journalists and clients in São Paulo to unveil the solution in …
U.S.-based Splunk, a big data solution provider, is enhancing its presence across Latin America, especially in Brazil. Splunk started in Brazil through a partnership with Silverlink Technologies and is now opening its …
Peru’s agency for the promotion of private investment, ProInversión, postponed the scheduled July 19 spectrum band auction for the provision of public telecommunication services for the Lima and Callao provinces …
Tampa-based cellular phone systems company Syniverse announced it has reached an agreement to acquire its rival, Luxembourg-based Mach, for a cash consideration of approximately $693 million (€550 million). The move …
The main reason people buy media tablets is the form factor: tablet users prefer their size and shape to that of PCs. People are now using tablets for daily personal …
Full Móvil, the No. 2 mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Costa Rica behind TuYo Móvil, began to operate in September 2011. Sebastián Haedo, Full Móvil’s director, talked with Signals …
The corporate mobility market still has a huge potential for growth. Although it has been a while since enterprises started providing their employees with mobile devices, most enterprises remain focused …
