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CyberSynchs Partners With Leading Device Retailer Baza10 Electronica to Offer its Universal Data Synchronization Service to the Argentina Market

Data Synchronization and Multiple Device Streaming Now Available for One of the Fastest Growing Smartphone Markets in the World NEW YORK | Dec. 7, 2010 | PRNewswire -- CyberSynchs, a leader in universal data synchronization, announced today a partnership with Baza10 Electronica, a leading retailer...

Telmex May Face Sanctions in Mexico Agency Ruling, Reforma Says

By Crayton Harrison | Dec 6, 2010 10:33 AM CT Telefonos de Mexico SAB should face sanctions for failing to comply with phone interconnection rules, Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission told the nation’s ministry of communications and transportation, Reforma newspaper reported today. Phone carriers Telefonica SA, Axtel SAB and...

BTC staff unions in bid to have injunction lifted

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | By NOELLE NICOLLS | Tribune Staff Reporter UNIONS representing BTC employees will attempt to have an injunction lifted when they appear in court today. The court order was issued last week after a successful petition by BTC, which claimed the unions were responsible...

Bahamas Telecom Launches Commercial Wireless With Advanced Billing and Charging Solutions, Enabled by Aptilo Networks

First Atlantic Commerce Delivers Advanced Multi Currency Credit Card Processing Solution via Secure Payment Platform NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS and HAMILTON, BERMUDA and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/10 -- Paradise just became even more exciting as The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited (BTC) announced the launch...

EMERGING MARKETS-Latam stocks up on US data, but Brazil slides

By Luciana Lopez and Michael O'Boyle | Reuters | Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:52pm EST * Bovespa down 0.33 pct, Mexico's IPC up 0.08 pct * Strong U.S. retail data support in Chile, Mexico * Brazil shares struggle on uncertainty next year (Updates to afternoon) SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY, Dec 14...

GPS Law In Brazil Could Mean Big Bucks For Ituran Location

Zacks |Todd Bunton |Dec. 14 2010 - 12:27 pm By the end of 2011, all new vehicles in Brazil will be required to have a GPS-based tracking system installed. This may not be good news for car thieves in São Paulo, but Ituran Location & Control Ltd. (ITRN...

NII Buys Brazil Airwaves for $715 Million to Fight Telefonica, Carlos Slim

Bloomberg | By Carla Simoes and Crayton Harrison  | Dec 14, 2010 11:37 AM CT NII Holdings Inc., operator of the Nextel brand in Latin America, paid 1.21 billion reais ($715 million) in a Brazilian government auction to gain airwaves to compete with Telefonica SA andAmerica Movil...

Equity Research on Tele Norte Leste Participacoes S.A. and Telefonica S.A. – Telecom Companies Benefit From Latin American Stability

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/14/10 --www.stockcall.com/ offers investors comprehensive research on the telecom services - foreign industry and has completed analytical research on Tele Norte Leste Participacoes S.A. (NYSE: TNE) and Telefonica S.A. (NYSE: TEF). Register with us today at www.stockcall.com/ to have free access to these...

Claro and Motorola Announce Defy ™, Smartphone Designed to Withstand All the Challenges of the Day

Press Release | December 14th, 2010 Water resistant and dust, the launch comes in the first course, brings the latest version of MOTOBLUR and increases the portfolio of the manufacturer Sao Paulo, The course brings to Brazil the Motorola phone with MOTOBLUR Defy ™ ™, which...

comScore Introduces Online Video Measurement Service in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Spain

comScore Press Release: YouTube.com Makes Google Sites the Top Ranking Video Property across Latin America and Spain Santiago, Chile, November 30, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore Video Metrix in Brazil, Mexico, Chile,...

ICANN 39 Post-Cartagena Interview: Beckstrom & Dengate Thrush

Interview with ICANN's CEO & President, Rod Beckstrom, and Chairman of the Board, Peter Dengate Thrush, following the close of ICANN 39 in Cartagena, Colombia. ICANN 39 has concluded with strong commitment from the ICANN Board to the multi-stakeholder model. Throughout the Cartagena meeting, supporting organizations...

Seasoned Internet Policy Expert Named as ICANN’s Latin American Representative

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers| December 9, 2010 Cartagena, Colombia… Rodrigo de la Parra, the Director General of Prospective Regulation of Mexico’s Federal Commission of Telecommunications (Cofetel) has been named as ICANN’s new Latin American representative. De la Parra has also served as the Mexican representative...

Bolivia Agrees To Buy $300 Million Communications Satellite From China

By Shane Romig | Published December 13, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- The Bolivian government has signed a contract with China Great Wall Industries Corporation, or Cgwic, to purchase a $300 million communications satellite, Bolivia's state news agency ABI reported Monday. The satellite, dubbed the...

SmarTrend Watching for Potential Pullback in Shares of America Movil After 0.35% Gain (AMX)

Written on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 2:26am By Sarah Hashim-Waris America Movil (NYSE:AMX) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $56.80 to a high of $57.33. Yesterday, the shares gained 0.35%, which took the trading range above the 3-day high of $57.23 on volume...

Chile Has More Cell Phones Than People – Government Statistics Agency

By Anthony Esposito | Published December 14, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- There are more cell phones in Chile than there are people, the government's INE statistics institute said Tuesday. With 19.4 million cell phones distributed across the Andean nation as of October, there were...

Reality Check: The mobile data tsunami meets the spectrum shortage

For mobile operators, vendors and their customers, these are the best of times and the worst of times. We all live and breathe in an always-on, wireless broadband connected world where fast is fine, more is good, faster is better – and best, faster,...

Digicel to Challenge Movistar's Mobile Market Position in Panama, Pyramid Finds

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- By 2015, new entrants Claro and Digicel are expected to increase their mobile phone market share in Panama to 11.7 percent and 21.3 percent, respectively, helping to boost competition levels in the market still dominated by C&W and Movistar, according to...

Movistar Remesas a Step in the Right Direction

Pyramid Research | Jose Magana | December 9, 2010 Telecom operators, particularly in emerging countries, are scratching their heads about how to leverage their strong positionto participate in the family remittance market. In our recent Insider Mobile Remittances: Network Operators Look to Cash In on a $60 Billion Market,...

Brazil Achieves More Than 16 Million Broadband Connections

Press Release Cisco SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec 9, 2010 – Cisco today presented the 14th edition of the Cisco® Broadband Barometer, a study conducted by IDC. The study shows that the total broadband market in Brazil reached 16.2 million connections in the first half of...

ebay del Sur: Mercado Libre

Checking out the eBay of Latin America, with Tim Seymour, Fast Money trader. Video via CNBC

America Movil upgraded

December 13 2010 - 12:06 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News Zacks Investment Research late last week upgraded its long-term recommendation on Latin American mobile operator America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. (AMX) from “underperform” to “neutral” citing the “growing Brazilian economy and...

Wavion and Vipitel Partner to Provide High Speed Internet Access for the State of Aguascalientes, Mexico

Monday December 13, 2010 - 10:19 AM EST | Business Wire News Release Wavion™, a technology leader in metro and rural Wi-Fi with a new generation of Beamforming Wi-Fi base stations, and Vipitel, a wireless service provider in Mexico, announced today the deployment of Wavion’s...

O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. Signs Commercial Lease for the Establishment of Earthcom Service Inc.'s Presence in Higuey, Capital City of the Eastern Province of La Altagracia, in the Dominican Republic

Monday November 22, 2010 - 09:58 AM EST | Released By O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. ST. AUGUSTINE, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 11/22/10 -- O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: OTOW) announces that the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Earthcom Service Inc., has entered into a Lease Agreement to secure Retail...

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Congratulates Clients Telefonica, Henderson Global Investors and Wolfson Microelectronics on ifsProShare Awards

Thursday December 09, 2010 - 10:36 AM EST | Released By Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is pleased to announce that three of its stock plan clients were awarded prestigious ifsProShare Awards at the 2010 awards ceremony in London on December 2. Telefonica won...