The sales of mobile phones in Brazil decreased 15.3% in the third quarter of 2012 over the same period last year, according to a study conducted by IDC. A total of 15.3 million mobile devices were sold in Q3, of which 4.2 million...
Virgin Mobile Latin America Inc. (VMLA) closed a second debt funding agreement with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, to fund its operations in Colombia. The debt facility is up to U.S.$14 million. VMLA was expected to launch a mobile virtual network...
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Brazilian manufacturer Gradiente said this week it has started to sell a new line of smartphones using Google’s Android operating system under the name "G Gradiente Iphone." Yes, that's correct: Gradiente is using Apple's famous smartphone name for a device running Android — and...
Brazilian carrier Oi has launched IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and broadband services with speeds up to 200 Mbps based on its fiber to the home (FTTH) network. When Oi named Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft as its IPTV vendors in July, the carrier said it was expecting to...
Argentina’s president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the entry of the Argentine state-run telecom firm, Arsat, into the mobile telephony segment as an MVNO player. Operating under the name Libre.ar, the new phone company will use 25% of the mobile spectrum, which according to...
With little fanfare, NII Holdings' Brazilian operations, Nextel Brazil, has started to offer 3G data plans in a handful of markets across the country. The carrier has started to sell modem data plan based on its 3G networks with the goal to add voice...
Another change has come to the c-level team at NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America. The company announced that Steven Shindler, currently the chairman of the board, will take on the additional position of interim CEO effective immediately. Shindler...
Ecuador’s national telecommunications regulator, Conatel, has given the public company CNT EP (Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) approval to provide technology services using the next generation of mobile technology.
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According to the Minister of Telecommunications...
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The mobile market is expected to grow 9.9% annually in terms of revenue until 2017, driven...
Brazilian telecom infrastructure outsourcing market is heating up. The P2 Brasil fund, a joint venture formed by Pátria Investimentos and Grupo Promon, have announced a new startup, Highline do Brasil, focused on providing sites and distributed antenna system (DAS) infrastructure to carriers. The new...
Motorola Mobility LLC, owned by Google, will stop manufacturing products in China and Brazil. The company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Singapore-based Flextronics which will acquire Motorola's manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China and assume the management and operation of its facility in...
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We all know and care about physical security. Whether we are walking on the street, shopping, paying bills at the...
The Latin American mobile industry contributed an estimated U.S.$177 billion to the economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay, representing 3.5% of the region’s GDP, according to two reports released by GSMA and AHCIET, both undertaken by Deloitte. However,...
Sharing revenue in a business to business to consumer (B2B2C) model can be complex from an IT point of view. How is revenue apportioned and how is it measured? In addition, what should carriers do to move money reliably and accurately across all partnerships...
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.
Many carriers see the proliferation of over-the-top (OTT) video services such as Netflix as a threat...
The Brazilian unit of Telefónica, Vivo, has announced the launch of an over-the-top, on-demand video service. Called Vivo Play, it is Telefónica's latest application for access to entertainment content via the Internet, aiming to meet mobility needs.
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The Chilean Claro has applied to the Chile's secretary of telecommunications (Subtel) to become an infrastructure concession operator. A Subtel spokesperson confirmed that Claro had submitted the application and said that the agency is evaluating the request.
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Peru's regulatory agency, OSIPTEL, has prohibited telecom operators from using the term "4G" or "Fourth Generation" to market their products. Lenka Zajec, the agency's corporate communications manager, told RCR Wireless News that the measure is based on the need to ensure the accuracy of information...
Less than a week after Claro and Bradesco announced their m-payment platform, Telefónica and MasterCard held a press conference yesterday in São Paulo to present a similar solution with the same goal: to include Brazilians without bank accounts in the financial system, using a...
Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 15.1% during the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL). In the previous quarter, Mexico's telecoms showed an increase of 14.8% compared to the 2Q11. The...
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.
The Argentinean government’s intervention in the economy has increased significantly over the past year, causing some...
