Brazil's telecom services market is poised to grow to U.S. $97 billion in 2016 from $66 billion in 2010, driven mostly by the increase of pay-TV, broadband and mobile data, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan said in a study presented in to a small...
Business application software provider Infor said it will relocate its headquarters from Alpharetta, Ga., to New York City by mid-2012. Infor CEO Charles Phillips said that 2011 has been a strong year for the company, with three consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, which...
MasterCard and the Brazilian unit of Spain's Telefónica have created a joint venture to offer mobile financial solutions, or m-payment, for 65 million Vivo consumers in Brazil. The initiative aims to create a mobile wallet allowing consumers to make payments via their mobile phones...
“The investments in the telecommunications market had not been so high since the Brazilian privatization in 1998,” said Renato Pasquini, Frost & Sullivan’s industry analyst, during a presentation of the consulting firm's newest study on the Brazilian telecommunications services market.
The investments of the biggest...
The information and communication technology (ICT) could move the climate change agenda forward, because technology offers practical means of cutting carbon emissions. This is what the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), together with a coalition of industry partners, will be working to convince delegates at...
RCR Wireless News attended the TM Forum Management World Americas 2011, the industry’s communications management conference, held in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month and interviewed some of attendees and speakers. Check them out:
Interview with Randy Frantz of ESRI
Interview with Tom Wise, VP of OSS...
Telefónica Digital and the BlackBerry's manufacturer Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) are conducting a pilot program on using near field communications (NFC) with plans to launch the service in the next year.
First, only Telefónica’s employees will be able to trial. In collaboration...
As previously announced, Google is ending several services, such as its ambitious collaboration tool Wave, medical records engine Google Health, Twitter competitor Google Buzz, Wikipedia-like aggregate Knol and PC file-searching tool Google Desktop.
This week, the Internet company sent e-mails to communicate its customers the...
Ronaldo Miranda, Advanced Micro Devices’ (NYSE: AMD) president for Brazil and Latin America’s vice president since March, is celebrating. “We started 2011 with 7% of market share in laptops and consumer verticals in Brazil, and now we have 20%, which is higher than our goal of 15%,” he said during a news conference Tuesday.
The Brazilian carrier Vivo, owned by Spanish Telefónica, has had its commercial launch of the first HSPA+ network in Brazil. The telecom operator said Tuesday that it has deployed the technology to provide better quality and user experience with mobile Internet services, with speeds...
Carlos Slim's América Móvil and AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telecommunications company by revenue, signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver enhanced communication services to multinational companies throughout Latin America and to so-called multilatinas around the world.
Brazilian carrier Oi (TNE) is expanding its business in neighboring Paraguay, where the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has authorized Oi to begin operations in the east of the country as a wholesaler, reported La Nación. The local press also noted that Oi intends...
The number of broadband connections in Brazil reached 53.9 million in October, an increase of 68.4% compared with the same month last year, as the rate of broadband activations to more than one new access every second, Telebrasil reported.
Spanish telecom Telefónica has signed an agreement with China Unicom to use each other's networks to expand their coverage. The agreement builds on a previous deal and extends and reinforces Telefónica's footprint by sharing the use of points of presence on their international networks.
A recent study of the Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication (Brasscom) shows what was already known: Brazil lacks skilled workers. The country will need an additional 750,000 IT professionals to keep pace with increasing demand, Brasscom says.
Nextel’s plan to deploy 3G voice and push-to-talk services in Mexico, which was expected by the first half of 2012, may be in trouble after a Mexican court ordered the Ministry of Communications and Transportation to revoke the mobile concession awarded in October 2010.
Puerto Rico may become a pioneer in LTE networks in the Caribbean, thanks to planned offerings from AT&T and Open Mobile. AT&T has said it will launch its LTE services in six new markets Nov. 20.
Virgin Mobile Latin America has received regulatory approval from Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transportation to provide wireless communications in Mexico as a mobile virtual network operator.
Carlos Slim’s América Móvil SAB will pay $4.6 billion (or 62.1 billion pesos) to increase its stake in Teléfonos de México SAB from 59.4% to 92.8%, securing control of Telmex.
In the third quarter, Brazilian telecom operator GVT Holding, owned by French entertainment and telecom group Vivendi, saw net revenues rise 38.4% and a 50.1% increase in the number of lines in service in the customer base.
One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% in June, with most subscribers on prepaid plans. The Chile wireless market is also...
Investment in Venezuela's telecommunications industry increased 21.7% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, reaching U.S. $220 million, said Conatel, the country's telecom agency. However, the number of mobile subscribers dropped 3.2% from a year ago.
Ecuador has unveiled its national digital strategy, with the goal of having Internet access in place for half of the country's households by 2015, up from a current level of 29%.
