CDG | January 10, 2011 | Press Release
New regulations provide for more effective use of 450-470 MHz band for fixed and mobile broadband, telephony and multimedia services to bridge the digital divide
COSTA MESA, CA — January 10, 2011 — The CDMA Development Group (CDG)...
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 worth 19.98 billion baht when bid documents are submitted today.
The field has been thinned from 10...
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 first private firms to provide mobile service in the country's relatively...
With executive-level representatives from both companies speaking at this week's Citi 21st Annual Global Entertainment Media & Telecommunications Conference, there was little doubt one of the topics of discussion would be the current temperature of the relationship between Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and Clearwire...
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 100 Gbps.
Brazilian research and development institute CPqD launched the project in 2010 and the ministry's...
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, Chief Technology Officer for T-Mobile USA, has been re-elected to serve as 2011 Chairperson of the...
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 services to all homes, incoming Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo told Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
The...
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 a fourth operator to enter the Peruvian mobile market.
ProInversion telecoms project director, Jesus Guillen, told...
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 fourth-generation mobile communications technology, having received approval from regulators.
China Mobile, having developed a local Chinese...
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...
Regional wireless provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) said it has closed on its acquisition of the remaining 15% and controlling “limited liability” interest in Royal Street Communications L.L.C.As a result of the acquisition, Royal has been renamed MetroPCS Networks L.L.C. and is now a...
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 promulgating an Industry Code of Practice for Telecommunications Service Contracts (the "Industry Code") for adoption...
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 Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU | PowerRating) and had lunch together with Robin Li, CEO of the...
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...
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) concessions issued to mobile operators AIS, DTAC and True Move by state-owned telcos TOT and...
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...
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...
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...
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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,...
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 monetary policy action, the central bank said.
The central bank, in the minutes of the Dec. 7-8...
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 Commission board decided to adopt European digital TV standards, but according to the high court, the...
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 date, cable TV, DTH and the rest of Colombian pay-TV operators will have to pay 7%...
