Trading Markets | January 7, 2011 | Press Release
Dublin, Jan 07, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/993177/paraguay_governme) has announced the addition of the "Paraguay: Government Decree Improves Competitive Landscape for Mobile Services" report to their offering.
Paraguay has an underdeveloped fixed market that...
Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Crayton Harrison
America Movil SAB, billionaire Carlos Slim’s Latin American wireless carrier, will raffle debit cards instead of puppies to Colombian customers after it received criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Comcel, the Colombian division of the...
PR Newswire | January 6, 2011 | Press Release
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to low penetration rates, an expanding economy, deploying 3G networks, and declining smartphone prices, mobile data revenue is expected to triple over the next five years in Peru,...
Business News Americas | January 6, 2010 | Christian Molinari
Sao Paulo is the Latin American city that is most-advanced in introducing mathematical models and predictive analytics technologies to provide commuters with the best routes for daily travel, the head of technology and innovation for...
January 6 2011 - 1:56 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
American Tower Corp. (AMT) CEO Jim Taiclet said the company would continue its plan to buy and build tower assets internationally and domestically in 2011, as it brings its...
Divitel | January 1, 2011 | Press Release
January 1th 2011, Following on from the foreign branches launched earlier in Portugal and Germany, Divitel has now opened a branch in Curacao. As part of our ‘Think Global, Act Local’ strategy, Divitel opened the new office...
Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Thomas Black
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission is studying holding an auction to create two new national television networks in digital format, the Mexico City daily Reforma reported.
Rafael del Villar, a commissioner for the agency known as Cofetel, said in...
Intrinsyc | January 5, 2011 | Press Release
Collaboration to Bring Navigation and Location Based Services to Latin America Markets
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Gilat Satellite Networks | January 5, 2011 | Press Release
Petah Tikva, Israel, 5 January, 2011 - Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, today announced that the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications in Colombia,...
Business News Americas | January 4, 2011
Brazil's communications ministry (Minicom) has thrown its support behind the development of optical communication systems that aim to reach broadband transmission rates of 100 Gbps.
Brazilian research and development institute CPqD launched the project in 2010 and the ministry's...
TeleGeography | January 5, 2010
Brazil's newly appointed communications minister, Paulo Bernardo, used his acceptance speech to announce his intention to reduce the cost of broadband access in the country. Telecompaper quotes Bernardo as saying that state-owned telco Telebras will be tasked with providing internet...
Business Wire | January 4, 2011 | Press Release
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Truffle Capital, a major European private equity firm, today announced that its portfolio company LeadMedia has acquired MediaFactory, ...
4G Americas | January 5, 2011 | Press Release
BELLEVUE, Wash. –
4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced that Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer for T-Mobile USA, has been re-elected to serve as 2011 Chairperson of the...
Business News Americas | January 4, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean SMEs and corporations are "eager" to adopt cloud computing, enabling them to see savings in total cost of ownership and energy expenses, Jose Ignacio Rio, product and presales manager for Chile with Japanese telecoms...
Business Wire | January 4, 2011 | Press Release
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings expects the Rating Outlook for Latin America telecom and media companies to be Stable during 2011. The sector continues to be one ...
Bloomberg | December 29, 2010 | Andre Soliani
Brazilian telecommunications companies will be invited to share with state-owned Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA leadership of the government’s plan to extend broadband Internet services to all homes, incoming Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo told Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
The...
TechFlash | December 29, 2010 | John Cook
Trilogy International Partners, aBellevue company which operates wireless networks in Bolivia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and New Zealand, has raised $44 million in equity financing, according to a SEC filing. It is unclear how the funds will...
Business News Americas | December 30, 2010 | Josh Miller
Brazilian IT services provider Exceda grew 100% in 2010 and, as the company expands regionally, aims for annual increases of at least 70% in 2011 and 2012, founder and CEO Claudio Marinho told BNamericas.
Exceda will...
Business News Americas | January 3, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean telecommunications networks suffered minimum disruption following Sunday's (Jan 2) magnitude-7.1 earthquake in the south of the country, according to information from telecoms regulator Subtel and operators.
No deaths or damage was reported by national emergency...
Business News Americas | December 31, 2010 | Patrick Nixon
Location-based service software provider Polaris is expecting operator interest in location to soar in Latin America in 2011, driven by its potential use for social networking and friend finding, mobile advertising, and combating crime, the...
Trading Markets | Jan 03, 2011 | Press Release
3 January 2011 - Norwegian software company Birdstep Technology ASA (OSL: BIRD) said today it has struck a deal to supply its EasyConnect solution to an unnamed mobile operator in Latin America while getting an expansion...
TeleGeography | December 31, 2010
The private investment promotion agency, ProInversion, has postponed the process to award 25MHz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band which it had hoped would attract a fourth operator to enter the Peruvian mobile market.
ProInversion telecoms project director, Jesus Guillen, told...
Wall Street Journal | January 3, 2011 | Rogerio Jelmayer
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The Brazilian government will provide a loan worth 300 million Brazilian reals ($177 million) to the state-run telecom operator Telebras SA (TELB4.BR) in order to implement a broadband network, the company said...
Business News Americas | Patrick Nixon | December 30, 2010
Video conferencing technology provider Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) expects to grow above the market average of 30% in Latin America in 2011, but below the 50% rate the company has seen in 2010 amid an increasingly...
