Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia tapped Alcatel-Lucent to help with the installation and operation of a national fiber optic telecommunications network designed to benefit people in 753 municipalities. Financial terms of the agreement were not announced.
Last year, the Unión Temporal Fibra Óptica Colombia consortium, comprising Mexico’s...
Following recent investments in the machine-to-machine space, mobile advertising and in a fund to detect and finance new businesses, Spanish mobile phone operator Telefónica is now jumping into augmented reality business. Through its Telefónica Digital business, the company today announced a global partnership with...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we...
Columbus International Inc. announced that it has officially obtained approval to acquire TeleBarbados Inc. and enter the Barbados telecommunications market. With this approval, Columbus aims to introduce two services to Barbados: Flow, a consumer-focused triple-play video, broadband and voice provider, and Columbus Business Solutions,...
"By 2020, there will be chips everywhere because chips will cost a penny. After 2020, it will be the post-silicon era, with quantum computing." This is how theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku opened his speech on the last day of Andicom (check out all...
Smartphones are hot in Brazil. While the total mobile phone market dropped 16% in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011, smartphone sales rose 77%. Feature phone sales decreased 29%. The Brazilian cellphone market reached 27.3 million units sold...
Increased smartphone and tablet penetration is enhancing social business usage as people can communicate from wherever they are, according to social business system provider Jive Software.
“There is a transformation going on, driven by mobile platforms,” said Tim Albright, senior business strategist and evangelist at...
Big data has reached telecom operators, and wireless carriers have to look to adding intelligence in their networks, going beyond the traditional business intelligence systems. However, in Latin America, carriers are only starting efforts to address big data, and how to approach and analyze...
Worldwide enterprises have been impacted by the bring-your-own-device trend. Of course, Apple's new devices are not the only cause, but the company has definitely contributed substantially to the phenomenon. When a new device is about to be launched, more people want to give up...
The telecommunications world is not without the phenomenal power of marketing, especially if the models being promoted are located thousands of miles away. It is for this reason that in private,
Internet penetration in Chile reached 53.61% of all households, according to the secretary of telecommunications (Subtel). The agency also announced that Internet penetration per capita jumped from 13% in December 2009 to 34% in June 2012, reaching a level the government had originally projected...
Chilean mobile telephone operator Entel announced on Tuesday that it has received a $400 million loan from a syndicate of international banks led by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi with the participation of the financial institutions Mizuho, HSBC and Scotiabank. The operators said the loan will...
The Spanish group Telefónica has taken one more step to develop the machine-to-machine (M2M) business. The telecom operator announced a joint investment with La Caixa in addFleet, a company specialized in making intelligent systems for transportation. AddFleet is preparing the international launch of a...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
In today’s world of high mobile expectations, fierce competition and fast-changing technology, it can be hard to convince businesses that...
Latin American mobile network operators (MNOs) have joined together to launch a data roaming transparency plan that will provide consumers greater visibility of their roaming charges and mobile data usage when travelling within the region and abroad. A total of 40 MNOs, which account...
Mobile phone numbers in Ecuador will include the number "9" by Sept. 30, as a measure to increase the number capacity to 100 million available mobile phone numbers. The increase will allow the country to meet future voice and data demand.
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Hewlett-Packard said it plans to cut 2,000 more jobs than the 27,000 cuts announced last May, bringing the total number of cuts to 29,000. The company said it will lay off workers in a restructuring effort aimed at saving up to $3.5 billion per...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we...
Mobile broadband will be a major contributor to increasing Internet connectivity in Colombia, Carlos Andrés Rebellón, executive director of the Colombian telecommunications regulator, CRC, told RCR Wireless News. A recent CRC report places Colombia third in the region for its information technology and communications...
CARTAGENA, Colombia—Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) is set to launch mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Colombia during the last quarter this year and in Brazil during the second half of 2013, said Jeffery Buckwalter, VMLA’s senior vice president for business development, speaking at...
CARTAGENA, Colombia—Bancolombia's acquisition of a 70% stake in Colombia’s MVNO Uff Móvil is a milestone for m-banking development in the country. The purchase means the same company will manage both the financial and telecommunication side if m-banking, making the process easier.
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A new class of smart devices that wirelessly link to smartphones and tablets will begin to gain traction over the next few years, with health and fitness leading the way, according to Juniper Research. According to the report, intelligent accessories that focus on...
CARTAGENA, Colombia – The LTE roll out across Latin America will be driven by telecom operators looking to create new revenues, to increase their capacity and to reduce costs. These were the main topics citied as LTE opportunities by experts during this week’s Andicom...
The Argentinian government has canceled its plans to auction wireless spectrum and instead allocated 25% of 3G spectrum to the state-owned satellite operator, Arsat. To justify the move, the government said it would prevent a monopoly. The announcement was made on Wednesday, startling the...
