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Bangkok Post | January 10, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana 3G contender field narrowed from 10 Only four groups are expected to pursue bids for TOT’s 3G wireless broadband nationwide expansion …

Reuters | January 7, 2011 | Alex Leff Jan 7 (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s telecoms regulator on Friday awarded licenses to Spain’s Telefonica and Mexico‘s America Movil to become the …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Wall Street Journal | December 31, 2010 | Owen Fletcher and Aaron Back BEIJING (Dow Jones)–China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) said Friday it will start large-scale testing of a domestically developed …

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 …

OFTA |Press Release | December 21, 2010 The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (“OFTA”) today (21 December 2010) welcomes the efforts of the Communications Association of Hong Kong (“CAHK”) in …

Trading Markets | Tue. December 21, 2010 BEIJING, Dec 21, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) — On December 20, 2010, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was said to visit …

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 …

TeleGeography | Thailand | Monday December 20, 2010 A review committee appointed by Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Minister Juti Krairiksh has highlighted various ‘illegal’ amendments to the Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Interview with 4G Americas’ Erasmo Rojas. He discusses the future of telecom in Latin America and its growing market. Find other relevant videos here via RCR TV

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 …

Bloomberg | By Iuri Dantas and Matthew Bristow | Dec 16, 2010 6:29 AM CT Brazil’s decision this month to raise banks’ reserve requirements to slow credit growth may “precede” conventional …

Colombia Reports | MANUELA KUEHR Colombia’s State Council on Wednesday suspended the implementation of the European terrestrial digital TV standard DVB-T due to a “procedural error,” reports Semana. The National Television …

RapidTV News | Iñaki Ferreras | 12-16-2010 The Colombian government has introduced new measures to  impose a tax on pay-TV operators which will be operational from 1 January 2011. From that …

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 …

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 …