Vietnamese-owned Viettel, an operator with assets in Haiti and Peru, has shown interest in expanding into other Latin American markets. Viettel announced it will start operating in Peru in January 2013, approximately two years after the carrier secured a 25 MHz spectrum license in the...
The Brazilian business-to-business communication service provider TESA Telecom has requested a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) license from the regulatory agency Anatel, as it looks forward to launching machine-to-machine (M2M) services.
The whole M2M project includes partnership with Algar Telecom as an MNO, Transtelco as...
Last month, the Colombian operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) added mobile voice to its data MVNO offer; now ETB is aiming to reach 1 million subscribers over the next five years from a total target market of 1.8 million fixed lines.
By launching mobile services, ETB expanded...
Although no mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) have launched in Brazil yet—due to the  bureaucracy in getting approvals, according to some sources—the country is still very attractive, as many delegates noted at this week's MVNO Industry Summit Latam (check all stories). Companies that are evaluating...
The first Brazilian company to unveil plans to enter the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market, the insurance firm Porto Seguro is set to launch wireless services during the second half of 2012, as general manager Tiago Galli told RCR Wireless News, at this week’s...
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After reaching the second position in the Brazilian mobile market last August, TIM Brasil reached another...
Among the key challenges for launching mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Latin America are the negotiations between MVNOs and mobile network operators (MNOs) and the time-to-market. Several countries in the region have already moved from being potential markets to actual markets. Nevertheless, MVNO...
Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) expects to launch mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) in Colombia and Brazil over the next 18 months, according to Jeffery Buckwalter, VMLA's senior vice president for business development, speaking at this week's MVNO Industry Summit Latam (chek all stories).
The company has...
Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 11.9% during the first quarter of 2012 over the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL). This is also the highest growth in the last three quarters. The growth was driven by an...
Mobile virtual network operator launches peaked in 2006 across the United States and Europe. Currently, that segemnts growth perspectives come from countries across Latin America, Russia, Turkey and Pakistan. The competitive telecom market and the relatively low number of Internet users are among the...
Latin America has become a target for many companies because of the potential wireless growth driven mostly by an increase in data traffic, plus the healthy economic and political environment across many countries in the region. The Canadian Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (YFI; TSX.V) moved...
So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.
United States-based RCR Wireless News and Signals Telecom News, a Spanish language, Latin American telecommunication news portal with a presence in Argentina, Spain and Uruguay, are pleased to announce a licensing and syndication agreement. “This agreement will allow our organizations to provide our readers...
Tribold and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a global OEM agreement under which Alcatel-Lucent can resell Tribold EPM (enterprise product management) as either a stand-alone product or in the context of their end-to-end Business Support Systems (BSS). It will put Tribold EPM at the heart of...
Are you prepared for the second wave of apps? A new Forrester Research report aims to answer this question. "We believe the market is poised for a second wave of consumer apps that are more personalized and contextual," Thomas Husson, Forrester Research principal analyst,...
Wanda, the mobile money joint venture between Telefónica and MasterCard, launched in Argentina, eyeing the millions of wireless users who don't have a bank account. Wanda is expected to reach approximately 10 million transactions by the end of 2012.
Announced earlier this year, the m-payment...
Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (Mintic) and the Spectrum Agency (ANE) has announced that the start of the auction for spectrum in the 1.7/2.1 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 1.9 GHz bands will be postponed from Aug. 22 to Sept. 5 (check full...
NII Holdings (NIHD), which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America, launched a solution designed to allow customers to connect with each other and their social networks. Nextel believes that its service, dubbed "Contactos Nextel," will enhance connectivity among its customers as it will enable...
Focusing on wireless carriers and device manufacturers as customers, OfficeDrop launched a custom small business online cloud storage solution, designed to allow technology companies to offer cloud storage to their end customers under their own brand. The new solution enables wireless providers to launch...
Over the next five years, shipments of consumer machine-to-machine devices are forecast to grow at a 39.8% compound annual growth rate to reach 37.9 million devices in 2016, according to a new research report from Berg Insight. According to the firm, the number of...
A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle's Java technology. The decision came after the jury found earlier in May that Google had infringed Oracle's copyrights...
Cloud computing is the new king of the information technology market, and three acquisitions announced this week underscore the point.
On Tuesday Germany's SAP AG unveiled its plans to buy cloud-based business commerce network Ariba Inc to expand its cloud presence, in a deal...
The Chilean government has released a telecommunications report showing that broadband penetration has tripled over the past two years. Internet connections reached 90% of the populated territory in Chile, rising from 7.4 million to 11 million Chileans connected to the Internet.
About 474,000 rural settlements now have...
Over the past two years, Latin American countries showed significant growth in e-commerce sales. In Brazil alone, e-commerce grew 43% between 2010 and 2011, reaching a total of more than $25 billion, which represents more than half the total for all of Latin America....
