Telecom Italia’s TIM Brazil led the Brazilian wireless market for growth in April with 808,000 net additions, according to Brazilian telecom agency Anatel. Rival Oi posted the second strongest growth …
The Chilean Constitutional Tribunal (TC) has approved a law that regulates the installation of towers and antennas for mobile telephony. The decision was announced last Wednesday and now telecom companies …
The Brazilian information and communication technology (ICT) market topped $197.56 billion in 2011, which is a growth of 10.9% over the previous year, according to a study commissioned by the …
MIAMI – Following the launch of LTE data commercial services, Puerto Rico’s telecom operator Open Mobile is preparing to launch a smartphone LTE service. Speaking at Amdocs InTouch event (check …
MIAMI – “Maybe you get the impression that we are doing too much, but we are not.” This was how Eli Gelman, Amdocs’ president and CEO, ended a question and …
MIAMI – Latin American telecom operator giant America Movil has begun a project to standardize its company’s primary IT systems in the region. Named America Movil One, the project was …
MIAMI – The Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia is preparing the launch of its ultra high-speed broadband service using VDSL networks. Branded with an English name, ‘Live TIM’ has been …
WiGig is expected to revolutionize Wi-Fi by offering up to 10 times higher speeds (around 7 gigabits/second) than today’s Wi-Fi devices do. Although products using this technology have already been …
During the last decade, Latin America’s telecom industry has seen the rise and fall of many challengers to the iDEN “push-to-talk” service. The would-be successors used different technologies
MIAMI – Telecom Italia has conducted meetings with TIM Brazil team to sooth employee concerns about the telecom operator’s future following a scandal that resulted in its Brazilian CEO resigning. …
MIAMI – Amdocs has set its sights on transforming the set-top box into a media center controlled by tablets with integrated real-time social media and sharing tools. The 30-year-old customer experience …
The mobile network operator Digicel has added NFC technology to its Digicel Mobile Money service offering in the South Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga. Digicel said it will make the …
Telefónica’s Latin American earnings surpassed its earnings from Europe for the first time in the Spanish group’s history. The telecom operator announced first quarter 2012 earnings of 15,511 million euros, …
It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.
Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by …
Brazilian telecom operator Oi has gone a step further in its 3G data offload strategy. The company unveiled an Android application to improve the user experience when switching from 3G …
America Movil’s Chilean unit Claro, Telefonica’s local wireless operations Movistar, and Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) have each presented proposals for the 2.6 GHz frequency band tender, which will …
After making a play to increase its share in European operator KPN, America Movil said its U.S.-based subsidiary Tracfone Wireless has entered into an agreement to acquire mobile virtual network …
Mexico has the largest short message service market in Latin America and is the second largest mobile market in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the third edition of …
A total of 72 operators have launched commercial LTE services around the world, according to an update to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)’s Evolution to LTE report. These include 25 …
After delaying the deployment of its 3G network, Nextel Chile (owned by U.S.-based NII Holdings, Inc.) launched 3G voice and data mobile service May 9, thereby seeking a 5-12% share …
Increased mobility, cloud computing, and IT consumerization are the main enterprise trends that companies around the world are basing their strategies on. RCR Wireless News is watching these trends to …
America Movil (AMX), the wireless carrier group controlled by Mexican Carlos Slim, May 8 offered about 8 euros per share to increase its stake in the Netherlands-based telecom company KPN …
In the same week that Spanish telecom giant Telefónica announced a $502 million (Bs 2.16 billion) investment in its Movistar unit in Venezuela, the Argentinian government fined it about $41.7 …
The world passenger car market is projected to reach 86.5 million units by the year 2017, while OEM-connected car system shipments are expected to grow from 8.22 million in 2012 …
