Looking to counter Carlos Slim's telecommunications giant América Móvil, Mexican operator Grupo Iusacell and Telefónica said they will enter a network sharing deal. Details of the agreement haven’t been announced yet, but it is expected the companies will share wireless towers and fiber-optic cables....
Brazil's auction of LTE spectrum produced no surprises as the country's largest operators secured spectrum assets in the 2.5 GHz band designed for the rollout of mobile broadband services. Brazil's regulatory body Anatel noted that carriers bid a total of $1.314 billion (R$2.72 billion)...
China Telecom do Brazil, which is directly managed by China Telecom Americas, announced the introduction of their data services product portfolio that includes international private leased circuits, IP access, IP VPN and fully managed data services. The company said it plans to introduce Internet...
Venezuela’s three mobile network operators – state-run Movilnet, Telefónica subsidiary Movistar and domestically-owned Digitel – have responded to last month’s invitation to participate in a tender for three blocks of mobile spectrum in the 1710 MHz-2170 MHz mobile frequency bands, the National Telecommunications Commission...
A new legal regime to manage and rationalize the deployment and use of cellular antenna infrastructure across Chilean cities is set to take effect this week with the enactment of the Towers Act. The new antenna law has been in discussion for over a...
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In two short years, the FIFA World Cup soccer games will descend on Rio de Janeiro, drawing thousands of attendees—tourists...
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.
There is an intimate connection between people and their mobile device. It has been coined the "consumerization of IT" and...
Dutch telecom operator KPN has had a busy month attempting to counter a move by Mexico-based operator América Móvil, which is looking to increase its presence in the European market.
About a month ago, América Móvil – the wireless carrier group controlled by...
Spain telecom giant Telefónica announced it has agreed to sell almost half its stake in China Unicom (4.56%) for about $1.41 billion (€1.13 billion) to the Chinese telecom’s unlisted parent company. It is part of Telefónica's efforts to cut debt. China Unicom’s shares (CHU...
LAS VEGAS - Like most large multi-nationals, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) can be challenged to orchestrate its different verticals, which ranges from business-focused products to end user-user focused personal devices. Distilling the range of objectives can even be complicated to digest, even for HP's employees –...
The worldwide commercial launch of IPv6 on June 6, an event sponsored and organized by the Internet Society, was called a major milestone by several players and consultant firms. The launch of the new Internet protocol version follows the successful 2011 test day. However, at...
Brazilian Datora Telecom is seeking to get a big share of the machine-to-machine market. The company has just announced a mobile unit dubbed Datora Mobile. At the same time, the company also said it aims to get 15% of the country’s M2M market over...
Cisco and Avaya have been battling over market share in the enterprise unified communication, VoIP and TDM equipment market, according to the market research firm Infonetics Research. The two have been neck-and-neck in the market for more than two years, and they both remain...
Brazilian telecom agency Anatel said that six telecom groups have submitted bids for Brazil's upcoming frequency tenders in the 2.5 GHz and 450 MHz bands. The bidding events are intended to help roll out LTE technology throughout the country.
The participating telecom groups are Claro...
LAS VEGAS—After HP's turbulent year in 2011, with Léo Apotheker stepping down as CEO just 11 months after being named and the indecision over the future of its PC business, HP (NYSE: HPQ) used this week's HP Discover 2012 event to make its enterprise business strategies...
Less than a month after Oracle's purchase of the cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform Vitrue, the company announced on June 5 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud-based social intelligence firm, Collective Intellect. It is the IT giant's second...
LAS VEGAS – “It is too early to evaluate HP’s new product. And it has still to be proven by clients. What I can say at this moment is that EMC leads this market with a huge share of our backup solutions,” Rodrigo Gazzaneo,...
Brazil's No. 2 carrier, TIM Brasil, announced it has chosen Cisco and its partner PromonLogicalis to manage the implementation of 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The Wi-Fi hotspots are part of...
LAS VEGAS – How to manage big data has been a challenge for companies of all sizes and sectors. Companies need to develop strategies to deal with the volume, variety, velocity and value of a huge amount of structured and unstructured data. Although still...
Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,
One of the first mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Latin America, Colombian Uff Móvil launched its services back in November 2010 and ended December 2011 with 249,000 users or 0.7% share of the wireless market. This is expansive growth compared to the 0.18%...
Another player looking to grow in the Brazilian mobile virtual network operator market is the French mobile virtual network enabler Sisteer. The company was granted a license to operate as an MVNx by Brazilian telecommunication regulator Anatel last December.
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China's Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump compared to its 2012 forecasted revenue for Brazil of $2 billion. Sales estimates were...
Telefónica is planning an initial public offering of its German O2 unit as a move to raise cash to pay-down debt and protect the company against América Móvil's efforts to expand its presence in Europe. In addition it would help Telefónica’s finances during the...
