Inside Costa Rica | January 17, 2011
Before the end of this year Costa Ricans will have an opportunity, for the first time ever, to choose who their cellular...
Business News Americas | January 13, 2011
Mexico's supreme court has delayed the application of mobile termination rates (MTRs) determined by telecoms regulator Cofetel, according to a BBVA Research report.
Mexican telecoms operators will not be able to immediately apply the MTR of 0.42 pesos (US$0.035)...
Qualcomm Inc. signed a non-binding letter of intent with Powermat to explore the possibilities of developing wireless power solutions. The two companies said they will investigate the convergence of tightly and loosely coupled wireless power technologies to deliver a flexible coupling wireless power solution;...
Gemalto | January 11, 2011 | Press Release
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces the selection by Claro in Brazil to deploy an innovative software solution that enables significant optimization of network capacity and reduction in logistics costs. Claro is...
Bloomberg | January 10, 2011 | Crayton Harrison
America Movil SAB, Latin America’s largest wireless carrier, won approval to delist shares of its Telmex Internacional SAB fixed-line unit as it seeks to merge mobile phones and land lines onto a single network.
Telmex Internacional shareholders voted...
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...
Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Crayton Harrison
America Movil SAB, billionaire Carlos Slim’s Latin American wireless carrier, will raffle debit cards instead of puppies to Colombian customers after it received criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Comcel, the Colombian division of the...
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. It’s been said that a rising tide raises all ships, but not so in the wireless...
Bloomberg |By Jonathan J. Levin
The following companies had unusual price changes in Mexico trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of 4:00 p.m. New York time.
The IPC index fell 0.1 percent to 38,131.47.
America Movil SAB (AMXL MM), the wireless carrier controlled...
Good Morning Colombia | December 26th, 2010
The board of the mobile phone giant has approved the purchase of 93.26 percent ofof the Mexican company with presence in the country .
This confirms the rumor that the communications market analysts and stock aired for months in...
Carlos Slim, chairman of Grupo Carso and chairman of Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud spoke with Frank Sesno, director of GW's School of Media and Public Affairs at the GW Global Forum-New York City on Oct. 29, 2010. For more information about the...
Reuters | Cyntia Barrera | Wed Dec 22, 2010
Dec 22 (Reuters) - A company controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim as well as an affiliate of broadcaster Televisa (TV.N) (TLVACPO.MX) could be lightly fined for providing poor service, a Mexican regulator said on Wednesday.
In a...
By Laurence Iliff | Wall Street Journal | December 21, 2010
MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexican stocks rose in early trading Tuesday, boosted by U.S. market gains and the cooling of fears over euro-zone sovereign debt.
The IPC index of the 35 most-traded stocks was 0.5% higher...
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/20/10 -- Aicent Inc. (www.aicent.com) announced today that Telcel, Mexico's leading wireless services provider, has selected the Aicent MMS Gateway Service to provision their global multimedia message service (MMS) capabilities. Now Telcel is able to send and receive...
TeleInsight | December 2010
Incumbent operator Codetel , a unit of América Móvil , aims to invest US$250-300mn in 2011, improving coverage and service quality. Investment will be spread across the company's operations, upgrading fixed and wireless operations. With such strong growth reported across all markets, Codetel...
15 December 2010, London, UK | GSMA
The GSMA today announced that it has elected Franco Bernabè, Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, as its new Chairman for a two-year term, from January 2011 through December 2012. As Chairman, he will help oversee the strategic direction...
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...
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...
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...
Mobile penetration in Chile has surpassed the 100% mark, as the country’s National Statistics Institute released a report showing that there are now 1.13 mobile devices in the South American country for every person.The agency noted that there were nearly 19.4 million mobile devices...
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...
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You wake up in the morning and one of the first things you do is pick up your Smartphone to check for messages and missed...
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,...
Peter Elstrom| Bloomberg
America Movil, Latin America’s largest wireless carrier, will offer financial services to about 50 million people in Mexico who have mobile phones and no bank accounts, Chief Financial OfficerCarlos Garcia Moreno said.
That population is part of an “enormous” number of Latin Americans who...
