The Brazilian unit of Spain’s Telefónica aims to be the biggest and best telecom provider in Brazil -- and that consumers recognize it as such. That might not be easy, because Telefónica Brazil faced serious problems with its Internet broadband service Speed in 2008, and it took some time to recover from the brand damage. However, the current scenario is brighter: Little more than one year after the mobile carrier Vivo’s acquisition, all Telefónica’s products will be rebranded under the Vivo name.
Mobile broadband use has overtaken fixed-line access, GSMA Latin America says, adding that the main challenge for the region's countries is to support the demand for data traffic. Public policies are necessary for mass access to networks, said GSMA Latin America Director Sebastian Hair, who opened the organization's plenary meeting this week in El Salvador.
Although contact center solutions represent the biggest part of Avaya’s revenues, the company aims to be recognized beyond that business, as an important player of the multibillion-dollar enterprise market for communication tools.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has acquired Hiflex Software GmbH, a privately held global software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services. HP said the acquisition will help it break the traditional barriers of how and where business customers print.
After buying telecommunications infrastructure operator AES Atimus Group in July for $1.03 billion, Telecom Italia’s Brazilian mobile unit, TIM Participações SA, on Dec. 5 announced TIM Fiber’s business plan for the next year.
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Subtel, Chile’s secretary of telecommunications, will disclose on Dec. 16 the new award conditions for the 4G auctions in the band of 2.6 GHz. The auction of three 20 MHz blocks of frequency is set for the first half of 2012.
Telecom operator GVT Holdings, owned by French entertainment and telecom group Vivendi, has been approved for a loan of U.S. $663 million (R$1.184 billion) from Brazilian development bank BNDES. The loan is intended to complement the company's investment plans through 2013, which are aimed at expanding current business areas and new cities, as well as pay-TV operations and implementing innovation in telephony services and Internet bandwidth range, content and interactivity.
Although news, the big data concept has been recently spread among ICT market. “Big meets cloud” has been the EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) slogan this year. Big data and cloud impact directly and they are changing a lot the technology roll. That’s why five...
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Amid a double-digit increase in global revenue during its fiscal first half, Digicel Group has completed its acquisition of Claro, América Móvil’s business in Jamaica, and the sale of its business in Honduras to América Móvil.
Colombia's ICT Ministry has published a bulletin detailing the progress of its national digital plan, Vive Digital, which was launched last year to overcome several barriers to massification of the Internet.
Accustomed to the U.S. market, where banks have had no problems with buying standard ATMs, NCR Corp. has had to change to compete in the Brazilian market, where banks insist on customized machines.
With its new lines of Lumia and Asha Windows-based phones, Nokia is hoping to maintain its hold on low-end consumers while increasing its appeal to high-end users, say analysts and company executives.
Finnish telecom giant Nokia is planning to add its Asha series of Web-enabled cellphones and Lumia 710 to the array of devices manufactured at its Manaus plant in northern Brazil.
While chief information officers are figuring out what -- and no longer when -- they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.
Colombian telecom UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones has installed the country's first antenna signal transmission to LTE commercial operations ahead of schedule.
During a series of meetings organized by the Steering Committee of the Internet in Brazil and the Center for Information and Coordination Point BR, telecom operators disclosed target dates for providing IPv6 connectivity.
Entel, Chile’s second-largest mobile telephone operator, has said it will merge with local data, fixed-line, cable TV and Internet provider Grupo GTD. The move may help Entel compete against its main rivals Movistar and Claro.
Members of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) met this week to discuss the creation of a regional connectivity network to create more points of interconnection both domestically and regionally. The initiative would cost U.S. $100 million and could be finished within two years, Brazil's communications minister said.
After tapping Chile as its initial launch market for mobile virtual network operator services in Latin America and receiving regulatory approval to operate in Mexico, Virgin Mobile Latin America has obtained licenses to provide wireless communications in Colombia and Peru.
Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and management. Pressured by chief financial officers to reduce the total cost of ownership and...
Brazilian holding company EBX and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a partnership to support the growth strategies of the two corporations. This strategic partnership would cover a wide variety of business initiatives to meet the natural resources and...
IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company's revenues by 2015, an increase of 5 percentage points from IBM's initial prediction of 25%. “Brazil is No. 2, behind China, in terms of...
