Subtel, Chile’s secretary of telecommunications, will disclose on Dec. 16 the new award conditions for the 4G auctions in the band of 2.6 GHz. The auction of three 20 MHz blocks of frequency is set for the first half of 2012.
Telecom operator GVT Holdings, owned by French entertainment and telecom group Vivendi, has been approved for a loan of U.S. $663 million (R$1.184 billion) from Brazilian development bank BNDES. The loan is intended to complement the company’s investment plans through 2013, which are aimed at expanding current business areas and new cities, as well as pay-TV operations and implementing innovation in telephony services and Internet bandwidth range, content and interactivity.
Although news, the big data concept has been recently spread among ICT market. “Big meets cloud” has been the EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) slogan this year. Big data and cloud …
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India’s state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), which has posted a loss of $1.2 billion in its most recent fiscal year, plans to lease out spare capacity of its network of towers to private players, according to news reports.
Indian telecom operator Idea Cellular has picked up the most subscribers from other companies through the mobile number portability facility launched by the government a few months ago.
Amid a double-digit increase in global revenue during its fiscal first half, Digicel Group has completed its acquisition of Claro, América Móvil’s business in Jamaica, and the sale of its business in Honduras to América Móvil.
Colombia’s ICT Ministry has published a bulletin detailing the progress of its national digital plan, Vive Digital, which was launched last year to overcome several barriers to massification of the Internet.
Accustomed to the U.S. market, where banks have had no problems with buying standard ATMs, NCR Corp. has had to change to compete in the Brazilian market, where banks insist on customized machines.
Prologue Information technology has largely been available to businesses for the past five or six decades. Many businesses in the West and around the world have been leveraging IT to …
The chiefs of leading telecom companies met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other key policy makers to discuss contentious issues plaguing the telecom sector.
Tata Communications today announced the launch of InstaHCM, a human capital management addition to its InstaApps software-as-a-service portfolio. InstaHCM will offered in partnership with SuccessFactors Inc., a company dealing in cloud-based business execution software.
With its new lines of Lumia and Asha Windows-based phones, Nokia is hoping to maintain its hold on low-end consumers while increasing its appeal to high-end users, say analysts and company executives.
Finnish telecom giant Nokia is planning to add its Asha series of Web-enabled cellphones and Lumia 710 to the array of devices manufactured at its Manaus plant in northern Brazil.
While chief information officers are figuring out what — and no longer when — they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.
Colombian telecom UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones has installed the country’s first antenna signal transmission to LTE commercial operations ahead of schedule.
The Indian Home Ministry is examining a report submitted by a high-level panel of experts on a focused and practical approach to the issue of decrypting some of the encrypted communication in a readable format, a task with which India’s security agencies have encountered problems.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s recommendation of a 60% market share cap on merger and acquisitions has been turned down by a standing committee of the Department of Telecommunications.
During a series of meetings organized by the Steering Committee of the Internet in Brazil and the Center for Information and Coordination Point BR, telecom operators disclosed target dates for providing IPv6 connectivity.
Entel, Chile’s second-largest mobile telephone operator, has said it will merge with local data, fixed-line, cable TV and Internet provider Grupo GTD. The move may help Entel compete against its main rivals Movistar and Claro.
Members of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) met this week to discuss the creation of a regional connectivity network to create more points of interconnection both domestically and regionally. The initiative would cost U.S. $100 million and could be finished within two years, Brazil’s communications minister said.
After tapping Chile as its initial launch market for mobile virtual network operator services in Latin America and receiving regulatory approval to operate in Mexico, Virgin Mobile Latin America has obtained licenses to provide wireless communications in Colombia and Peru.
Amdocs unveiled its Amdocs Data Experience Solution, which it said was designed to help service providers deploy new data services that could improve the customer user experience and accelerate data services monetization.
“If there is any responsible player coming into the industry and growing the business especially by data, it is very good news,” a top RCom official said.
Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and …
