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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...
Highlights:
Claro Brazil is offering the churn-reducing Claro Messenger IM Service to their more than 48 million-strong customer base.
The launch in Brazil is the fourth successful roll-out of Synchronica's IM solution, which will ultimately be deployed across all 17 América Móvil subsidiaries.
The agreement with América Móvil provides Synchronica with...
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 improving macro conditions in Mexico and Argentina.”America Movil operates in 18 countries and...
Wednesday December 01, 2010 - 08:30 AM EST
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(Reuters) - Leading Latin American wireless operator America Movil has begun producing programing for Colombian television, appearing to signal a first step into regional media from its owner, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim.
The company is a telecommunications giant in Latin America, but was not known...
Highlights:
Claro Argentina's launch represents the third deployment of Synchronica's Mobile IM service by the América Móvil Group to date
Synchronica has a group-wide framework agreement - emanating from its acquisition of Colibria's IMPS IM business - to deploy the service across all 17 América Móvil...
By Amy Guthrie, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Reactions to America Movil's (AMX, AMX.MX) annual investor day ranged from delight to disappointment as Latin America's largest communications company reaffirmed expectations of strong cash flow growth, while increasing its capital expenditure plans and dashing...
November 23 2010 - 6:00 am ET | RCR Wireless
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:
Alcatel-Lucent
Latin America: With America Movil to provide an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support next-generation mobile broadband services in 11 countries.
Value: Undisclosed
Huawei
Poland: With Aero2 to supply an...
November 30 2010 - 10:54 am ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
Jasper Wireless scored a huge deal to power America Movil's machine-to-machine communications initiatives across North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Under terms of the deal, Jasper will provide its...
By Aleksandar Vasovic and Cyntia Barrera Diaz
BELGRADE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's America Movil, the world's No. 3 cell phone company by number of wireless subscribers, is eyeing an upcoming stake sale in Serbia's state phone giant Telekom Srbija.
Serbian Telecommunications Minister Jasna Matic said America Movil,...
Jasper Wireless scored a huge deal to power America Movil's machine-to-machine communications initiatives across North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Under terms of the deal, Jasper will provide its single platform solution to the world's fourth-largest global operator. Financial details of the...
Jasper Wireless scored a huge deal to power America Movil's machine-to-machine communications initiatives across North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Under terms of the deal, Jasper will provide its single platform solution to the world's fourth-largest global operator. Financial details of the...
Carlos Slim Health Institute, West Wireless Health Institute and Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) have introduced a Wireless Pregnancy Remote Monitoring Kit designed to help health professionals monitor women with high-risk pregnancies in Mexico. The kit uses 3G technology to transfer vital health information from...
The Linux Foundation and the CE Linux Forum announced they will merge, resulting in the CE Linux Forum becoming a technical workgroup at The Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation will expand its technical programs in the embedded computing space as well.Brazil's TAM Airlines started...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) will soon add AT&T Mobility (T) as a network option for its Straight Talk prepaid wireless service, giving the nation's largest retailer a GSM option alongside its Verizon Wireless (VZ) CDMA network plan. The move is notable in...
SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday's keynote speech at the company's first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an average selling price of...
Mexican mobile giant America Movil (AM) has released its financial results for the year ended 31 December 2009, revealing a 17.2% quarter-on-quarter drop in net income in the last three months of the year to MXN12.95 billion (USD989 million). The drop was attributed to...
MEXICO CITY - America Movil, the largest cellphone operator in Latin America, posted a 51 percent rise in third-quarter net profit on Monday due to a pickup in new subscribers and lower financing costs.Reuters
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.Mobile penetration in Latin America was around 66% in early 2008, well above the world average of...
Apple Inc.'s foray into the global handset industry is a work-in-progress, judging by last week's events, just as its initial, domestic rollout was marked by adroit tactical shifts.A sudden avalanche of international market rollouts for the iPhone announced last week appeared to reflect that...
America Movil said yesterday it cut a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone throughout Latin America, including enormous markets such as Brazil and Mexico. The carrier has an aggregate subscriber base of nearly 160 million customers in the region.The news came on...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularNigeria: Alcatel-Lucent said it signed a contract with Globacom...
