There are thousands of Internet service providers (ISPs) across Brazil. Many of them focus on providing inhabitants of small cities with Internet access. Their job is huge, since Brazil is more than 3.2 million square miles. However, when big—and national-level—players arrive in their cities,...
Alcatel-Lucent has long claimed that femtocells and metrocells can boost wireless networks, but this time, it seems that carriers are also betting on the technology. According to Osvaldo di Campli, Alcatel-Lucent's president of the Caribbean and Latin American (CALA) region, three femtocell contracts have been signed...
The Brazilian telecom Grupo Oi reported a second-quarter drop in its net income of U.S.$31.23 million (R$64 million) in 2Q12, which is much less than the U.S.$169.2 million (R$346 million) of 1Q12 and the U.S.$69 million (R$141 million) of 4Q11. Oi reported U.S.$3.379 million...
Spanish telecom giant Telefónica could move its Latin American headquarters from Madrid to São Paulo. Although rumors say the move is planned, a Telefónica Brazil spokesperson explained to RCR Wireless News that while the company is conducting studies about moving the regional command to...
Telecom Italia's Brazilian unit announced that its second quarter net revenue grew 7% year over year to U.S.$2.23 billion(R$4.547 billion). Total gross revenues were U.S.$3.28 billion (R$6.7 billion), 10.2% more than 2Q11 and 2.6% more than 1Q12. However, the carrier’s net income fell 0.9% to U.S.$170...
There is no deadline set for ending the suspension of three Brazilian carriers that have been prohibited from selling new mobile services since July 23. Both the minister of communication (Minicom), Paulo Bernardo, and the president of Brazilian telecom regulator agency Anatel, João Rezende,...
Brazilian NET Serviços, owned by América Móvil, plays an important role for the company by selling triple play services (fixed broadband, pay-TV and wireline phone). América Móvil attributes its Brazilian second quarter revenue growth—which was up 4.1% year-on-year to U.S.$3.7 billion (R$7.5 billion)— to...
MIAMI – Software-defined networking (SDN) has been around for a while, but its future was as a hot topic during this week’s NetEvents Americas Press & Summit, held in Miami.
“This time is different because the problem is very real,” noted Casey Quillin,...
As near field communications becomes standard, the NFC retail payments market is expected to exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, more than a seven-fold increase over 2012, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
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The latest "State of Mobile Advertising" report from Opera Software found that business and finance generate more revenue per impression than any other publishing category. The report also shows that Apple's iOS leads the smartphone operating system pack with an average effective cost per...
“Mobile computing offers new challenges, but they are less about infrastructure and more about people. Mobile devices can carry a huge security risk,” said RSA executive chairman, Art Coviello, at the beginning of an interview with RCR Wireless News. “Behavior is going to be one of...
Mobile broadband demand will push mobile service revenue to U.S $976 billion by 2016, according to the market research firm Infonetics Research. Telecom operators in Latin America are expected to take in close to $150 billion from mobile voice, broadband and messaging services or...
While m-banking has not taken off in Brazil and other Latin American countries yet, in Haiti, Digicel’s mobile money service, named TchoTcho Mobile, and Voila's T-Cash have reached 5 million transactions. The services are monitored and supported by Haiti Mobile Money Initiative (HMMI), a...
A Brazilian company, controlled by the private equity investment group Apax Partners, is betting on a new business model—one which does not require end users to access their data plan each time they make a transaction—to develop the m-payment market in Brazil. Dubbed PagCell, the solution...
Almost one year after acquiring the Wi-Fi company Vex, Brazilian telecom carrier Oi announced that it has integrated both companies’ networks. As part of the integration, Oi changed the name of Vex's service to Oi WiFi, and it is expanding Oi’s services to Vex customers,...
A recent survey from Grant Thornton U.K., prepared by Experian, placed Brazil among the top most attractive countries for information and communication technology (ICT) business investment and expansion. “The huge potential consumer market, which is increasing due to the advancement of the middle class, and...
Spanish Telefónica said it will make a multi-million-euro investment to kick start mobile advertising in Brazil, using the O2 media model that was successful in the U.K. as a blueprint. The announcement was made July 5 at a London event, where Telefónica Digital revealed...
After launching its mobile device management (MDM) platform, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion in the U.S., the Canadian Research in Motion (RIM) gathered journalists and clients in São Paulo to unveil the solution in Brazil. Mobile Fusion is a single interface that provides a unified view for managing...
U.S.-based Splunk, a big data solution provider, is enhancing its presence across Latin America, especially in Brazil. Splunk started in Brazil through a partnership with Silverlink Technologies and is now opening its own local operations. The move follows Splunk's IPO on April 18 when its stock soared...
Peru’s agency for the promotion of private investment, ProInversión, postponed the scheduled July 19 spectrum band auction for the provision of public telecommunication services for the Lima and Callao provinces as well as the rest of the country. The new auction date is July 24.
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Tampa-based cellular phone systems company Syniverse announced it has reached an agreement to acquire its rival, Luxembourg-based Mach, for a cash consideration of approximately $693 million (€550 million). The move aims to expand Syniverse's global reach and scale. The deal is still subject to...
The main reason people buy media tablets is the form factor: tablet users prefer their size and shape to that of PCs. People are now using tablets for daily personal activities, according to a new survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that the...
Full Móvil, the No. 2 mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Costa Rica behind TuYo Móvil, began to operate in September 2011. Sebastián Haedo, Full Móvil's director, talked with Signals Telecom News, an RCR Wireless News syndication partner about the company's wireless operations
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The corporate mobility market still has a huge potential for growth. Although it has been a while since enterprises started providing their employees with mobile devices, most enterprises remain focused on basic skills, such as sales force automation. That is why there is still...
