Monday, December 20, 2010| By Juan Pedro Tomás | Business News Americas
Peru's private investment promotion agency,ProInversion, expects to award 25 MHz of spectrum in the 1,900 MHz band on December 23 - the same date that technical and economic offers are to be opened, ProInversion...
NexTVLatam | Monday, December 20 2010
The Colombian National Television Commission decided to reduce from 10% to 7% the percentage on gross income tax paid by Pay-TV operators. Such measure will become effective as from January 2011. According to the aforementioned agency such decision is...
LTE Base Station Antennas selected by major LatAm Mobile Operator for Testing in Metropolitan Area
(16 December 2010, Hong Kong) - Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited (“Comba” or “the Group”, Hong Kong stock code: 2342), a leading wireless enhancement solutions provider announced that its LTE...
Bloomberg | By Camila Russo | Dec 16, 2010 1:54 PM CT
The following companies had unusual price changes in Bogota trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of 1:44 p.m. New York time.
The IGBC Index rose 0.2 percent to 15,384.47, while the...
PR Newswire | GSMA Press Release
GSMA Announces Five New ADCs as Part of App Planet at Mobile World Congress
LONDON, Dec. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA today announced that the CEOs of Cisco, Ericsson and Telefonica are scheduled to deliver keynote presentations at the 2011 GSMA...
Marketwire | Elephant Talk Press Release | Dec 20, 2010 10:15 ET
SCHIPHOL, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - December 20, 2010) - Elephant Talk Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: ETAK) (http://www.elephanttalk.com/) anticipates that new regulations from Brazil's telecom regulator, Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (Anatel), could create opportunities for Elephant Talk and a...
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/20/10 -- Aicent Inc. (www.aicent.com) announced today that Telcel, Mexico's leading wireless services provider, has selected the Aicent MMS Gateway Service to provision their global multimedia message service (MMS) capabilities. Now Telcel is able to send and receive...
Comtech | Press Release
MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced today that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., won a $1.3 million order for satellite communications infrastructure equipment. The equipment will support a satellite-based mobile backhaul network in Latin America.
The order includes a comprehensive list...
By Patrick Nixon | Business News Americas
Unified communications will be a key focus for the recently merged Enterprise unit of French telecoms equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent(NYSE: ALU) and call center specialist Genesys in Latin America, Sergio Valencia, Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise director for Mexico, Central America and the...
Latin Stock Investing | Weekly Update | December 17, 2010
Brazil's economic stimulus for 2011
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With an eye on hosting upcoming global sporting events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, the Brazilian government announced several measures to encourage...
Bloomberg | By Jonathan Roeder and Crayton Harrison | Dec 17, 2010 2:43 PM CT
Grupo Iusacell SA, the Mexican mobile-phone carrier owned by billionaire Ricardo Salinas, filed for pre-arranged bankruptcy in Mexico, seeking a restructuring plan with creditors for the second time in four years.
A judge...
By Shane Romig | Published December 16, 2010| Dow Jones Newswires
BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- Telefonica de Argentina, the local unit of Spain's Telefonica SA (TEF, TEF.MC) expects a sharp 45% jump in its number of fixed, Internet and cell phone lines in service next year,...
By Samantha Pearson and Jean Luis Arce | Reuters | Fri Dec 17, 2010 1:23pm EST
* Brazil's real loses 0.8 pct, Mexican peso down 0.3 pct
* Chile's peso firmer on copper and rate hike (Adds comments, updates prices)
SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Chile's peso...
Through twitter and press releases, José María Álvarez-Pallete announced that Telefonica is donating 4550 million Colombian Pesos (about $2.3 million USD) to victims in Colombia. The floods in Colombia were caused by heavy rains and the rupture of the Canal del Dique, a major...
TeleGeography | Thursday, 16 December 2010
Telecom Personal, the mobile subsidiary of Argentine fixed line incumbent Telecom Argentina, has announced the launch of a trial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the city of Cordoba. Trials of the 4G technology, which is expected to initially...
NextTV LATAM | Wednesday, December 15 2010
The Peruvian Minister of Transport and Communications, Enrique Cornejo, pointed out that in 2012 there will be eight more DTT channels in the capital city of Lima. Therefore, Digital TV coverage will be completed two years before the...
NextTVLATAM News Release | Friday, December 17 2010
The Chilean Government presented a single seal that will certify which receivers are suitable for Digital TV under ISDB-T. The objective is aimed at "making the Chilean TV set market transparent and providing the population with proper...
By Jonathan House| Published December 17, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires
MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (PT: 12.95, +0.07, +0.54%) said late Thursday it is maintaining its plans to pay the bulk of an extraordinary dividend in 2010, ahead of higher taxes on dividends that take...
Myriad Group | 16 December 2010 | Press Release
New deal underpins expansion of Myriad-Telefónica 5-year strategic partnership to deliver innovative social networking solutions to more than 140 million customers in 13 countries across LATAM
Myriad Xumii Social Networking services to be rolled out under...
Interview with 4G Americas' Erasmo Rojas. He discusses the future of telecom in Latin America and its growing market.
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DIRECTV, through its DIRECTV Latin America subsidiary, has completed a $604.8 million cash for stock transaction with Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A., or Globo, bringing DIRECTV’s ownership of SKY Brasil to approximately 93 percent. Globo owns the remaining 7 percent.
DIRECTV, which had a 74 percent...
Bloomberg | By Jose Orozco | Dec 14, 2010 3:22 PM CT
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Telefonica SA’s Venezuelan mobile-phone operator, Movistar Venezuela, and Digitel GSM to cooperate with government efforts to assist 130,000 people displaced by heavy rains or face expropriation.
“The enabling law will obligate them,...
Apprion Press Release
Brazilian Firm To Provide Industrial Applications And Networks To One Of The World’s Fastest Growing Economies
Mountain View, CA | December 15th, 2010 – Apprion today announced its first major expansion outside of North America with Brazilian industrial partner Solutis Technologias. Solutis provides...
Press Release | Telefonica | December 16th, 2010
Yesterday Telefonica Argentina announced the debut of the Samsung Galaxy Tab to its customers. The android tablet will go for about $800 USD and Movistar Argentina will have plans starting at about $50 USD a month which...
