Europe's second-largest phone company Telefónica (TEF) reached an agreement with Spanish labor unions to cut up to 6,500 jobs over the next three years. In its statement, the telecom company explain that the measure aims to ensure the viability and competitiveness in coming years....
Telecom Italia's Brazilian mobile unit TIM Participações SA has bought telecommunications infrastructure operator AES Atimus Group from Companhia Brasiliana de Energia for R$ 1.6 billion (US$1.025 billion), in cash. The acquisition represents a significant expansion of TIM's infrastructure, since it's adding a fiber-optic network...
The number of Cubans using mobile phones was close to 1 million at the end of 2010, up from 621,000 in 2009 and 330,000 in 2008. The numbers, released by the National Statistics Office (Oficina Nacional de Estatísticas - ONE), show the jump almost...
Applications for smartphones that facilitate access to social networks is an important driver for increasing mobile devices sales, which has projected to grow more than 73% in Latin America in 2011. A recent study by Frost & Sullivan analyzed the use of social networks...
Brazilian carrier Net is expanding its broadband services by installing Wi-Fi hotspots in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The project is still a pilot, but follows an international trend. Some mobile operators are using Wi-Fi in order to offload its 3G networks. “Our...
Mobile value-added sales (VAS) in Mexico generated revenues of US$1 billion for mobile operators during the first quarter of 2011, said the second edition of MAVAM Mexico (Acision Monitor of Mobile Added Value).
According to the study, Mexico represents 21% of VAS sales in Latin...
RCR Wireless News has named Roberta Prescott editor in chief of RCR Wireless News Latin America, as the news group expands its global coverage of the mobile and wireless industry.
Prescott will be responsible for reporting news and analysis coming out the region, interviewing key...
More than 1.36 million Brazilians switched telephone operators but kept their original phone numbersin the second quarter. According to ABR Telecom, the association that manages number portability operations in Brazil, 37.4% of the total referrals were users exchanging fixed-line operators and 62.6%were for mobile...
Chile’s Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) said that four companies – Telcordia, Indra,Informática El Corte Inglés and Neustar – presented technical and economic offers to manage Chile’s number portabilitydatabase. The winner will be announced on Aug. 5, and then will have 120 days toimplement the system,...
Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 12.7% in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period in 2010. During the first three months of 2011, satellite television continued as the most dynamic growth sector, followed by international long-distance traffic and mobile telephony traffic.
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Brazilian mobile operators have seen revenues from value-added services (VAS) grow to 31% in the first quarter of 2011, announced Acision, specialist in mobile data, in its 8th edition of MAVAM Brazil. With this growth, VAS now represents 18% of operators’ total net sales...
Of all Latin America countries, Chile is in the top position of Global Innovation Index ranking 2011, just released by Insead. Chile holds the 38th place, followed by Costa Rica (45th), Brazil (47th), Argentina (58th) and Guyana (61th). Check below the Latin America ranking.
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Ecuadorian mobile operator Alegro PCS, controlled by the national state carrier CNT, may migrate from CDMA to HSPA+ to improve and expand its services. According to the local newspaper El Universo, CNT is expected to invest US$ 74 million and the new technology might be...
As part of the country’s National Broadband Plan, four Brazilian carriers said that within 90 days they would start providing 1 megabit per second fixed or mobile Internet access for R$ 35 ($22.50) per month. The carriers are Oi, Telefonica, Sercomtel and CTBC.
The schedule...
Chilean Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, confirmed the decision of the administration of President Piñera to speed up the processing and approval of a bill designed to correct the current gaps in the regulations for telecommunications towers construction.
According to Chile’s telecom...
The Brazilian government approved the request for PIS/Cofins and IPI tax breaks by six tablet manufacturers: MXT, Positivo, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., Envision and Aiox.
The companies were the first to receive such tax breaks after previous lawsuits were filed looking to distance...
Cisco Systems Inc. may have set July 31 as the day it plans to launch its Android-based Cius tablet, but for customers in Brazil, that wait will be a bit longer. The delay is due to pending approval of the device by Brazil’s national agency...
Nearly three-fourths of Peru’s households had a mobile phone at the end of the first quarter, according to the “The Information and Communication Technologies in Households” report produced by The National Statistics Institute. The report found that mobile penetration increased 2.2%...
Chinese manufacturer ZTE Corp. said it will produce tablets in Brazil. The annoucement was given just after a July 27 meeting that ZTE’s CEO, Hou Weigui, had with the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, in Brasília.
During this meeting, Weigui guaranteed that ZTE...
Cisco | June 23, 2011 | Press Release
Aim Is to Offer Constant and Reliable System Availability
LIMA, Peru, June 23, 2011 – Peru Credit Bank (BCP) has chosen the Cisco®Borderless Network Architecture to improve customer service, increase efficiency and reduce costs. The solution...
MarketWatch | June 21, 2011 | Press Release
Intcomex, Inc. Announced the Signing of a Distribution Agreement with RIM and the Incorporation of Its Line of Mobile Phone Products for Latin America and the Caribbean
MIAMI, Jun 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Miami, Florida...
Wall Street Journal | June 22, 2011 | Rogerio Jelmayer
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–Brazil mobile phone subscriptions increased to 215 million in May, up 1.16% from April, according to figures released late Tuesday by telecommunications regulator Anatel.
New subscriptions totaled 2.5 million in May, Anatel...
InfoSonics | June 16, 2011 | Press Release
SAN DIEGO, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSonics Corporation (NASDAQ: IFON) today announced the launch of its new verykool® i310 handset in Latin America.
"Our new verykool® i310 is a 2G flip phone that is an upgraded version of one of our most...
Google, Microsoft and Facebook Rank as Most-Visited Internet Properties in Peru
Portal Sites Account for One-Third of Internet Users’ Time Online
Lima, Peru, June 15, 2011 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its first public study of Internet...
