Wireless

Fallout has begun following the decision by Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel to suspend mobile line sales by a handful of carriers in some states due to poor service quality and customer complaints. …

Oracle announced plans to acquire substantially all of the assets of Skire, a provider of capital program management and facilities management applications available both in the cloud and on-premise. Terms …

The machine-to-machine market is poised for the biggest transformation in its 10-year history due to the adoption of cloud-based solutions for M2M applications, according to the latest research report from …

Changes in the leadership at big tech companies were announced this week. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as president, CEO and member of the board of directors. …

Brazil‘s telecommunication regulator Anatel, announced yesterday that it has suspended sales in some states by three mobile phone companies —TIM, the Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia; América Móvil’s Claro; and the …

One of the direct consequences of number portability are the benefits it provides users. Since the adoption of number portability in Chile last January, the country’s Department of Telecommunications (Subtel) said prices …

Thirteen Latin American mobile operators have pledged to work together across the region to block the use of stolen devices, GSMA Latin America announced. The wireless operators agreed to collaborate …

We asked leaders Cisco, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Ruckus Wireless for their predictions.

The German software giant SAP has said more than once that Latin America is one of the key regions for the company’s growth. Yesterday, SAP went a step further when it …

Millicom International Cellular, which operates in the Paraguay market under the Tigo brand name, signed a binding agreement to acquire Paraguay’s cable pay-TV services provider Cablevisión for $150 million. Follow …

A recent survey from Pyramid Research found that fiber optic access in Latin America is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44% in the 2012-2017 …

The next generation of telecommunications was launched by the Dominican Republic’s unit of Orange after a U.S.$150 million investment in 2012 to improve and double its network. The company launched …

Guatemala’s Continental Towers will receive an investment that will help it build and maintain mobile-phone towers across Central America, increasing mobile-phone coverage and reducing communication costs. IFC, a member of …

Following its partnership with Chile’s Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) to offer mobile services, the German software company SAP announced it has teamed up with the Colombian UNE EPM. The carrier …

China-based telecom equipment provdier Huawei signed a statement of commitment with Brazil’s Ministry of Communications (Minicom) focused on the development of new technologies to support broadband services using the 450 …

Vietnam’s largest mobile operator Viettel, which is set to launch its operations in Peru next year, taped ZTE to deploy a 2G/3G wireless network across its Peru operations. According to …

Almost half a million Colombian people chose to keep their numbers when switching telecom operators since the mobile number portability law was enacted in the country. According to the Communications …