By Rogerio Jelmayer and Paulo Winterstein | Published December 15, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Telefonica SA (TEF, TEF.MC) wants to almost triple the number of Brazilian cities that have access to its third-generation, or 3G, service by the end of next year. The...
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ | CARACAS, VENEZUELA
President Hugo Chavez's government is proposing to impose broadcast-type regulations on the Internet with a law that would ban messages deemed to provoke panic or show disrespect for public authorities.
The proposed "Social Responsability Law" includes electronic media along with radio...
December 15, 2010 | Zacks
NII Holdings Inc. (NIHD - Analyst Report), a small-sized wireless services provider in several Latin American markets received yet another shot in its arm. Yesterday, the company announced that it has won wireless licenses in Brazil, which were recently auctioned by...
By Alex Leff | SAN JOSE, Costa Rica | Reuters
* First bids to end Costa Rica state-run telecom monopoly
* Mexico's America Movil and Spain's Telefonica in running
Mexico's America Movil and Spain's Telefonica placed bids on Tuesday to offer cell phone service in Costa Rica, pushing the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. For mobile operators, vendors and their customers, these are the best of times and the worst...
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...
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...
By Patrick Nixon | Business News Americas
The introduction of number portability (NP) in Chile in mid 2011 will oblige not only operators to up their game to retain customers but also device suppliers to re-orient their product portfolio to suit new services, Aldo Vidal, Samsung...
Sydney, Australia – Sinusoid Pty Ltd today is pleased to announce the release of Audio Kit 1.4 for iOS. Audio Kit is a collection of four tools which are essential for those working in audio, sound and music; A real time Spectrum...
TeleGeography | Monday, 13 December 2010
Serbia’s Ministry of Finance has announced that seven companies have applied to participate in a tender for the 51% stake in Telekom Srbija being sold by the government. The seven are Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telekom Austria, America Movil,...
TeleGeorgraphy | December 2010
Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel has rejected petitions to allow existing mobile operators to participate in the upcoming auction of H Band 3G mobile spectrum, BNamericas reports. In early November this year, Telemar Norte Leste (Telemar, or Oi) and SindiTelebrasil, an association...
TeleGeography | Friday, 10 December 2010
Brazil’s national telecoms regulator Anatel says that six groups have submitted proposals to bid for the country’s final 3G mobile frequencies – the so-called H Band. Valor Online reports that the six are domestic operators Vivo, Claro, TIM Brasil, Oi,...
ITU | Press Release
Focus on international regulations for spectrum management and satellite orbits
Geneva, 6 December 2010 - The ITU World Radiocommunication Seminar 2010 (WRS-10) opened in Geneva today to discuss international regulations on the use of radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits. Discussions during the...
Marking a new era in network bandwidth technology, Alcatel-Lucent has introduced the first commercially available solution to carry a single carrier 100 gigabit per second (100G) on a wavelength through the innovative use of emerging “Next Generation Coherent” technology.
Designed to address...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (BUSINESS WIRE), December 08, 2010 - Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced that it has signed international 4G roaming agreements with Digicel in Jamaica and Global Mobile in...
Chloe Yu, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, plan to offer femtocell services in the first half of 2011, the second half of 2011...
This annual publication provides analysis on the telecoms market in 2010, forecasts, overview and discussion on:
- National Broadband Network
- International broadband and trans-sector activities
- Mobile communications market
- Mobile data
- Smart grid infrastructure
- Social networks
- Broadcasting and pay TV
NBN full steam ahead
The industry is...
