ILS Press Release | December 29, 2010
RESTON, Va. & MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS ...
Bloomberg | Ketaki Gokhale | December 30, 2010
Tech Mahindra Ltd., partly owned by BT Group Plc., plans to acquire software companies in Latin America to help more than double sales in the next three years.
Tech Mahindra aims to buy companies that write software codes...
International Business Times | By Jesse Emspak | December 23, 2010
China Tel will be putting $62 million into selling internet protocol telephony in Peru, via its subsidiary Perusat.
The new network will be a WiMAX service, similar to those being built in the U.S. by...
Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2010 | Rogerio Jelmayer
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Shares of Universo Online SA (UOLL4.BR), or UOL, Brazil's largest Internet provider by revenue, were up during Thursday's morning session on two deals concerning the company.
As of 1303 GMT, the company's share...
Reuters | Elzio Barreto | December 28, 2010
(Reuters) - Shares of Brazil's largest mobile phone company Vivo jumped on Tuesday after the company unveiled plans to be integrated into Telefonica's local fixed-line phone unit.
Vivo's most-traded preferred shares (VIVO4.SA) climbed 1.7 percent to 53.42 reais...
Market Itellisearch | December 28,2010 | Leo Goldman
NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- Telecom Argentina S A options saw heavy call activity today. A total of 114 call and 73 put contracts were traded raising a three month record high call volume alert. Today's traded...
Adveriser Talk | December 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18 percent in the number of fixed broadband connections in Venezuela, which represents a penetration of 5.2 per 100 inhabitants, during...
Xiong Tong | Xinhuanet News | December 29, 2010
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Online Christmas sales in Brazil reached 2.2 billion reais (1.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, up 40 percent from the same period last year, a Sao Paulo-based consulting company...
XinghuaNet | Mo Hong'e | Decemebr 28, 2010
HAVANA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cuba has set a strategic goal in 2011 to migrate most of its computers to open-source software, a move designed to strengthen the country's technological security and sovereignty.
Once the migration is fully...
Iñaki Ferreras | Rapid TV News| December 23, 2010
Perú's pay-TV operator Cable Mágico has launched a satellite TV offering designed for low income subscribers.
The new offering consists of a DTH package to be made available in the first half of 2010 Â according to news...
Bloomberg |By Jonathan J. Levin
The following companies had unusual price changes in Mexico trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of 4:00 p.m. New York time.
The IPC index fell 0.1 percent to 38,131.47.
America Movil SAB (AMXL MM), the wireless carrier controlled...
Entel Bolivia | December 23, 2010
Entel has just announced the release of a new ZTE phone, the "Coral 200" in Bolivia. This new phone has menus available in Quechua and Aymara, two native languages of the region. It also has much larger buttons which...
Economic Times | December 23, 2010
LA PAZ: Bolivia has fined Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei $8 million for breach of contract, officials said.
Public Works Minister Walter Delgadillo said Bolivian state telecommunications provider Entel collected on Huawei's performance bond after the Chinese company failed to...
Calgary Herald | December 27, 2010
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay will adopt a Japanese and Brazilian digital TV standard known as ISDB-T, instead of European rival DVB-T, Foreign Minister Luis Almagro announced Monday.
Uruguay will joins most of Latin America in signing on to the ISDB-T format,...
Good Morning Colombia | December 26th, 2010
The board of the mobile phone giant has approved the purchase of 93.26 percent ofof the Mexican company with presence in the country .
This confirms the rumor that the communications market analysts and stock aired for months in...
Reuters | Thu Dec 23, 2010 | Reporting by Daniel Fineren and Armando Tovar
Dec 23 (Reuters) - Dominant Mexican fixed-line telecoms operator Telmex and mobile phone operator Telcel have agreed a gradual reduction...
Carlos Slim, chairman of Grupo Carso and chairman of Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud spoke with Frank Sesno, director of GW's School of Media and Public Affairs at the GW Global Forum-New York City on Oct. 29, 2010. For more information about the...
Reuters | Cyntia Barrera | Wed Dec 22, 2010
Dec 22 (Reuters) - A company controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim as well as an affiliate of broadcaster Televisa (TV.N) (TLVACPO.MX) could be lightly fined for providing poor service, a Mexican regulator said on Wednesday.
In a...
December 21 2010 - 1:02 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
Motorola announced the extension of its iDEN support for NII Holdings Inc. in October. That deal runs through 2014 and covers the supply of hardware, software and services to NII...
By Laurence Iliff | Wall Street Journal | December 21, 2010
MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexican stocks rose in early trading Tuesday, boosted by U.S. market gains and the cooling of fears over euro-zone sovereign debt.
The IPC index of the 35 most-traded stocks was 0.5% higher...
Reuters | Daniel Wallis | Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:49pm EST
(Reuters) - Venezuela's parliament approved tighter regulation of the Internet on Monday in the latest of a package of laws to entrench President Hugo Chavez's...
Boeing | Press Release | December 20, 2010
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 20, 2010 -- Boeing today announced that it has received a contract for approximately $1 billion from the government of Mexico to deliver an end-to-end satellite communications system. The system, known as...
TeleGeography | Costa Rica |Â Monday, 20 December 2010
Costa Rican telco Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) is seeking a partner to assist with its wireless network operations, with the aim of allowing it to better compete with the soon to be licensed alternative providers. The...
Ingrid Lunden| MocoNews |Â Dec 20, 2010 9:41 AMÂ ET
—Telefonica/BlueVia: The Spain-based operator Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), which has extensive operations throughout Europe as O2 and Latin America, is launching a new open-API program to encourage developers to make apps for its own app store initiatives, which...
