During his presentation at the LTE LatAm summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week, ZTE’s Sean Cai asked participants whether they felt their networks were truly ready for “the data explosion.”
Omar Perez of Entel used his keynote at LTE LatAm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to discuss how mobile broadband could significantly improve the quality of people’s lives.
Bolivia’s Entel runs the gamut in terms of telephony, providing everything from mobile, to fixed line, to...
Uruguay's state-owned telecommunications company hopes to start laying the foundation of an LTE network this year, but in the meanwhile has established a number of low-cost programs to bringt wireless connecitivity to the masses, according to a company leader at the second day of...
LTE will still account for less than 5% of global connections in 2015 but may find an early niche in rural markets as an alternative to fixed broadband said Julio Puschel, senior analyst and head of mobile operator strategy for Informa at the LTE LatAm summit in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday.
It's too early to tell whether LTE in Latin America will become complimentary to fixed broadband, or if it can eventually be positioned as a substitute, according to major operators and vendors at the second day of Informa's LTE Latin America conference in Rio...
As Latin America begins to forge plans for next generation LTE technology, two countries in particular are blazing a path for others to follow.
Alfonso Ehijo, CTO of Reference Center for Technology and Innovation at the University of Chile, in charge of the technological evolution...
April 12 2011 - 10:00 am ET | Bob Moser | RCR Wireless News
RIO DE JANEIRO – Public safety communication networks will be targeted as an easily applicable market for LTE in the coming year, with major providers already working together in select U.S....
April 12 2011 - 11:39 am ET | Sylvie Barak | RCR Wireless News
RIO DE JANEIRO – Mike Roberts, principal analyst and head of Americas for Informa described Brazil as the “strongest mobile broadband market in the region,” during his opening keynote at the...
Nokia Siemens | April 12, 2011 | Press Release
Espoo, Finland – April 12, 2011
Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Eduardo Araujo to lead its business in Latin America. Araujo, a Brazilian national, joins the company from Ingram Micro Corporation where he was president of its...
April 12 2011 - 1:35 pm ET | Bob Moser | RCR Wireless News
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's major wireless providers are sharing the burden of building the backbone of a national network before the country hosts international sporting events in 2014 and 2016....
Telefónica presents ON THE SPOT SERVICES, an evolution of the music wire that has its own technological platform, with a musical base of over six million songs and ability to operate international markets. ON THE SPOT SERVICES creates a link to enhance communication between...
Reuters | April 7, 2011 | Andre Grenon
(Reuters) - Telmex, the telecommunications giant controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it won a contract to provide the platform for wireless carrier Nextel's mobile broadband services.
Telmex, which controls 80 percent of Mexico's fixed phone lines,...
KVH | April 6, 2011 | Press Release
A combination of the fully licensed mini-VSAT Broadband service, a new Brazilian subsidiary, and in-country partners position KVH to support mariners throughout the growing Brazilian maritime market
MIDDLETOWN, RI – As part of an ongoing effort to offer...
Reuters | April 4, 2011 | Cyntia Barrera Diaz
(Reuters) - America Movil expects to double its pay television customers in Latin America to 22 million by the end of 2013, according to projections from a company source with direct knowledge of the growth outlook.
The source...
Business News Americas | April 6, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
Brazilian telecoms operator Intelig is focusing on the government segment to acquire new customers for its corporate services, local mobile telephony operator TIM (NYSE: TSU) top clients director Leonardo Queiroz told BNamericas.
"The Brazilian government segment is very...
April 7 2011 - 1:52 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
Mexican media conglomerate Televisa S.A. (TV) moved forward with a $1.6 billion investment into wireless operator Group Iusacell S.A. de C.V. that will allow Televisa to add mobile services to its...
VTR | April 5, 2011 | Press Release
April 5, 2011 .- The telecommunications company VTR joined the Association of Mobile Telephony, ATELMO, composed of the major mobile companies in Chile.
VTR's decision to join was born out of their interest to participate in the agenda...
Mobile Broadband LatAm | April 5, 2011 | Press Release
MTN to share its lessons from the World Cup
The largest Latin American mobile network operators and global high-tech giants are meeting in Rio de Janeiro in April to strategize on how best to take advantage...
April 6 2011 - 12:43 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
Mexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa S.A. (TV) said it was currently in talks with mobile operator Group Iusacell S.A. de C.V. regarding a potential partnership that could see Televisa add a...
TeleGeography | April 4, 2011
Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa has revealed that it will buy the remaining shares it does not hold in local triple-play provider Cablemas for approximately MXN4.7 billion (USD397 million), according to the Wall Street Journal. Televisa has said that it...
RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak
*Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the rebuilding of the impoverished country’s telecom infrastructure over a year after the quake. Barak and Speir are exploring how mobile...
Telefonica | April 4, 2011 | Press Release
Potential: The ICT industry is an innovative growth sector creating an array of new opportunities for other sectors and industries • New habits: The coming years will see a double-digit increase in the number of users of social...
Financial Times | April 1, 2011 | Naomi Mapstone
It costs about 30 cents to check your email in Peru if you duck into one of thousands of grimy internet cafés that also offer photocopying, scanning, printing and international phone calls. In a country with low...
Daily News Pulse | April 1, 2011 | Adriana Barnes
The company needs huge cash in order to support their massive expansion plans as well as to roll out its 3G wireless network. Moreover, the company has projected that capital expenditure for 2011 will be...
