In its second edition, Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index ranked 25 of the world’s largest cities according to their ability to use ICT for social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index — Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm — have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT, Ericsson noted.
Brazil has to improve the capacity of its backbone and backhaul infrastructure to support the increasing demand of data, said Informa Telecoms & Media and Brazilian consulting firm Teleco during …
Indian attorney Prashant Bhushan told the country’s Supreme Court that India’s investigating agencies have overlooked the role of Shyam Telelink in the 2G spectrum scam because it has links to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
This week, two Latin American companies announced LTE launches: Sky in Brazil and Antel in Uruguay. Previously, Colombian UNE EPM announced its LTE antenna and U.S. carrier AT&T plans to …
Brazilian carriers are migrating their 3G network to HSPA+, mostly to cope with the increase in data volume. Telefónica’s Vivo announced the commercial launch of its HSPA+ network last month, …
Global ratings agency Fitch has said that recent decisions made by India’s telecom commission will be detrimental to the sector’s credit profile.
The Indian prime minister’s office has recently sought an update from the Department of Telecom about the steps taken to tackle the security issues arising from the importing of telecom equipment.
In the same week that UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones President Horacio Vélez de Bedout submitted his resignation to the board, the government telecom announced that it has partnered with compatriot firm …
The first South American global cloud computing platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, was launched today in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the eighth geographic region worldwide …
Cable & Wireless Communications’ Caribbean business Lime said today that it has launched a 100 megabits per second (mbps) residential broadband service in Jamaica, delivering speeds more than 12 times faster …
Telecom infrastructure giant American Tower (AMT) unveiled plans to purchase 2,500 towers from Telefónica’s Mexican subsidiary for about $500 million, excluding value-added tax. AMT said it has entered into definitive …
ANTEL, Uruguay’s government-owned telecom, has said it will launch its commercial LTE network to customers in Montevideo and Punta del Este on Dec. 19. Named Vera, the Internet service is …
Growth in the Indian telecom sector will be driven by value-added services like mobile banking in the next phase, with the market for such offerings set to rise fourfold to $9 billion by 2015, according to a report by KPMG and FICCI.
With the Department of Telecom terming the intra-circle 3G roaming deals of telecom companies as illegal, Tata Teleservices and Aircel have scrapped an agreement for offering services in each other’s circles.
The Mexican unit of Spain’s Telefónica has invested U.S. $13 billion in the past 10 years to boost the telecommunications access in the country, Telefónica CEO Juan Antonio Abellán said. …
DirecTV’s Latin America subsidiary Sky Brazil has become the first Brazilian company to launch 4G services. The country’s largest satellite TV service has entered the broadband wireless market offering 4G …
Much of Latin America can now access Apple Inc.’s iTunes Store as the company launched its music store today in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, …
The number of telecom towers in India is expected to double in the next 4-5 years as a result of growth in mobile data (3G expansion), coverage rollouts, expansion by new operators and new technologies, according to a report by Macquarie Group.
Nokia Siemens Networks has inaugurated a new center in Mexico to deliver remote services to operators across Latin America and around the world. The service delivery center will provide network …
Japan’s NEC and the Argentinian unit of Spain’s Telefónica have announced the first step in promoting cloud computing services in Latin America. As a result of previous partnership, Telefónica Argentina …
SAP’s strategy to go beyond traditional enterprise resource planning, moving toward mobile, big data and cloud computing has begun a new chapter. The German enterprise software giant has acquired SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions.
India’s federal investigation agency has filed the third charge sheet in the 2G spectrum scam trial in a Delhi court against five top executives of the Essar Group and Loop Telecom.
The explosion in Brazil’s class C population — defined as families with monthly incomes of $660 to $2,850 — has been accompanied by changes in consumer spending habits by members of that class, especially in the mobile phone market.
Sequans Communications, a Paris-based 4G chipmaker, introduced three new FDD and TDD LTE baseband chips, a companion RF chip and two new LTE platforms, supporting all global FDD and TDD LTE networks.
Less than 15 days after selling the former Motorola Solutions’ WiMAX business to NewNet Communication Technologies, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced today that Adtran Inc. (Nasdaq: ADTN) plans to acquire its …
