Brazilian telecommunication providers reached a record investment level in 2012 with inflows of U.S.$12.53 billion (R$25.3 billion). The money was mostly spent on network expansions, increasing coverage and improving quality of services. The total investment made last year represents an increase of 11% compared...
Nextel’s strategy is to migrate its Latin American operations from iDEN to 3G to become more competitive. Apart from Argentina, the operator has acquired 3G spectrum in all the countries where it operates, investing over $750 million in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.
Spend a week in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress event, and you will come back home with a lot of intriguing ideas. You can be overwhelmed by the plethora of new, elegant, sleek tablets, smartphones and the like,
Colombia’s LTE auction has a date. The Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (Mintic) set the auction for June 26, hoping to generate up to $250 million for the treasury.
In a move to inject some competition in the market, regulators said that dominant...
As an extension of a global agreement with Telefónica, the wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks has made a deal with the carrier's Mexican unit to move forward with its network upgrades. With the addition of Mexico, Ceragon now provides high-capacity wireless backhaul solutions to...
Brazil's information and communications technology companies are facing a shortage of skilled labor. As RCR Wireless News reported previously, in January alone there were about 1,000 open ICT positions in the country.
The telecommunications market is also heating up, boosted by data consumption growth and the...
A mobile call on March 7 between Subtel's Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Jorge Atton, and the CEO of Claro Chile, Gerardo Muñoz, was the first call made in Chile using an LTE network. For the voice, they used 3G under CSFB (circuit switch fall back).
In July,...
Colombia's ministry of technology and communications (Mintic) has released the latest numbers for the country's telecommunication industry. Internet broadband connections in Colombia have reached 6.2 million, while there are now 49.06 million mobile subscribers, meaning that there are 105 lines per 100 inhabitants.
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Four Brazilian carriers announced infrastructure sharing agreements for the deployment of LTE networks. Following an announcement by TIM and Oi that they had made a deal to share telecom infrastructure, Vivo and Claro also announced they had signed a memorandum of understanding to share...
Brazilians carriers that bought spectrum licenses in the 2.5 GHz frequency band at auction in June have until April to cover all the offices of the Confederations Cup, and by December 2013, they must also cover the branches and sub-offices of the 2014 World Cup. Of...
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Has this happened to you? You order something in a restaurant, but your waiter flubs the order and your appetizers...
TOA Technologies began its operations in Latin America two years ago. Focused on mobile workforce management, the company is betting on rising enterprise mobility to increase its revenues in the region.
“There's a really strong trend toward mobility, and that's not just limited to  Latin...
Spanish telecom group Telefónica saw its 2012 net profits fall by 27.3% to $5.14 billion, while its debt dropped by almost $6.5 billion on a quarterly basis to $67.1 billion after a variety of asset sales.
Today the company released its quarterly and year-end financial...
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Latin American mobile markets have experienced incredible growth in the past 10 years. The majority of countries...
Latin America now has 14 commercial LTE networks in nine countries, according to the latest count by the industry association 4G Americas. Last week it was Paraguay's turn. The state-owned operator Copaco launched its LTE network, and the service is currently available in the...
BlackBerry will start sales of its recently launched z10 touchscreen smartphone and the BlackBerry Q10 (BB10), a hybrid smartphone that includes a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, throughout Latin America beginning with Venezuela on March 12. The company, which was until recently known as...
Finnish cell phone maker Nokia is optimistic about Brazil, currently its fifth largest market behind China, India, the United States and Japan. During the Brazilian launch of the Lumia 920, 820 and 620, Almir Luiz Narcizo, Nokia Brazil's general manager, said that if the...
Virgin Mobile Latin America is closer to launching its operations in Colombia, since it has raised an additional U.S.$20 million in funding. In December, the company closed a debt funding agreement for up to U.S.$14 million with the IFC, a member of the World Bank...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
It is certain that Near Field Communications (NFC) will become the standard for the replacement of...
Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, has signed a decree (7291) establishing a special tax regime for telecom networks. Part of the National Broadband Plan (PNBL for Programa Nacional de Banda Larga), the measure provides tax exemptions for equipment and work required for the deployment of telecommunication...
