It has been a competitive battle for the No. 2 position in Brazil’s mobile phone market. While Vivo has maintained its leadership position, the second position has been a long running dispute between Claro and TIM.
What was a slim lead for Claro in June,...
Two Brazilian vendors have formed a joint venture for a a cloud-computing company. Benner Systems, the third-largest domestic supplier of business management software, and TBA Group, a leading information technology conglomerate in Brazil, announced they created a joint venture called GlobalWeb Corp. This company...
After investing US$ 20 million to launch HSPA+ technology and begin to offer 4G services in Guayaquil, the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, Movistar has announced deployment of HSPA+ network in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, allowing its users to experience...
The Brazilian army and Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) announced that they will test LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology in BrasÃlia, the capital of Brazil. The initiative, which includes Motorola's investment of US $2 million, aims to present the possibilities and alternatives to improve the...
Mexican carrier Telcel is preparing to launch LTE services in 2012. Currently, the America Movil-owned carrier is working on trials, with plans for a pilot project scheduled for the last quarter of the year. Deployment is likely to be in large cities, such as...
The number of broadband access lines in Brazil could more than triple by 2020, and users could see significantly higher speeds if investments of R$ 144.6 billion by 2020 (US$ 90 billion) were made, according to the National Union of Telephone Companies and Mobile...
Bolivian’s Control Authority and Social Control of Telecommunications and Transport (ATT) said it will make a ruling on the fees it will impose on the country’s largest carriers beginning next year. The ATT noted that the largest carrier will be the one with the...
By 2014, Ecuador plans to have broadband increase significantly, with small and medium businesses (SMB) and major rural area connnect to broadband, as well as increased residential coverage by 2015, triple the number of connections to broadband by 2016 and achieve at least 75%...
Facebook announced the opening of its office in Brazil, under the leadership of Alexandre Hohagen, who formerly was Google Inc.’s (GOOG) country manager for Latin America. Located in São Paulo, the office will support local businesses and organizations in Latam, helping them to be...
Cloud-computing service providers should install their infrastructure close to their clients to mitigate risks, said Gartner VP Gene Phifer, adding that as cloud service providers deploy that strategy, they will want to have their infrastructure throughout the world, including Brazil. As such, "the Brazilian...
Motorola Solutions Inc. could expand its business in Brazil, where the company has been operating for 35 years. Motorola Solutions CEO Gregory Brown met with the Minister of Communications Paulo Bernardo recently, according to Agência Brasil. Motorola Solutions provides equipment and systems for businesses...
Telephone operators will be able to offer pay-TV in Brazil. The Senate on Tuesday approved a project called PLC 116 that standardizes new sector rules, allowing the entry of telephone companies in the cable TV segment. Currently, they offer pay-TV services using satellite technology...
In Brazil, number of Internet broadband access connections surpassed 45.7 million in July, up 56.72% compared to July 2010. According to the monthly balance sheet prepared by the Brazilian Association of Telecommunications (TeleBrasil), since the beginning of 2011, 11.2 million new connections were enabled.
The...
Brazilian telecom carrier Oi confirmed that it bought Wi-Fi company Vex for R$ 27 million (US $16.8 million). Vex operates more than 40,000 hotspots in Brazil and other countries throughout in Latin America.
Bringing Vex to Oi subscribers will allow the operator to differentiate with its mobile...
Every company will adopt cloud computing in the near future, and even now a lot of enterprises don’t know it, but they are using some kind of cloud services. According to consultancy firm Gartner, 70% of companies with more than 1,000 employees have not...
An increase in the machine-to-machine market may be driven by smart grid adoption, which is in its very beginnings in Brazil and other Latin American countries due to the lack of regulation. However, companies such as Elster Group believes that both Brazil and Latin...
Although Venezuela ended second quarter with 26.8 million active mobile-phone subscribers, this number represents a decrease of 4.65% compared to second quarter 2010. The decrease is from final disconnections of lines that had been suspended but not counted as disconnected, according to the National Telecommunications...
Ministers of Communications from Brazil and Colombia, along with the General Secretary of Unasur, has firmed an agreement to boost cooperation and trade between the two countries. During the Investment Forum Colombia-Brazil, the ministers agreed on the need to implement a strategy to promote broadband in South...
Paraguay counted 248,000 mobile Internet users in the first half of 2011, a 14% increase from December 2010, when the country had 217,000 accounts. Statistics were published in La Nación and are related to the last data of National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel). Mobile Internet...
Cloud computing has emerged as a top priority and a long-term, cost-effective solution to store content, both in the enterprise space as well as with consumers. As mobile and fixed broadband penetration in Latin America spreads, operators seeking to rise up the value chain should consider...
Insead has just released InnovaLatino, the result of a  two-year collaboration between Insead and the OECD Development Centre, and funded by the Telefónica Foundation. The objective of InnovaLatino was to research innovation dynamics in the business and public sectors in Latin America, drawing attention to...
After three rounds of bidding and three hours' time, the ICT Ministry of Colombia auctioned 30 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900 MHz band, of which 25 were assigned. The nation's three operators -- Tigo, Comcel and Movistar -- paid US $79.89 million for...
Indian mobile phone manufacturer Micromax said it is investing R$ 20 million (US $12.6 million) to begin selling its devices in Brazil. The expectation, according to Mauro Federici, Micromax's country manager in Brazil, is to reach 1 million units sold in the first year...
