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Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T has a price and a buyer for its 8.2% equity stake in América Móvil. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, majority …

NII Holdings is reportedly selling its Nextel operations in Chile and Argentina. According to the Argentinean newspaper La Nación, two Argentinian businessmen, Matías Garfunkel and Sergio Szpolski, the owners Grupo Veintitres, …

The Orange Group has named Ramon Fernandez, the current director general of the French treasury, as its next CFO. Fernandez will start his new position on Sept. 1. The current …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T wants to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion, and the carrier is doing all it can to encourage regulators to …

América Móvil finished the first quarter with revenues up 1.3% year-on-year to $14.93 billion, pushed by growth in Brazil. The carrier’s Brazilian unit posted an 8.5% increase in total with wireless revenues rising 5.7% and …

On the same day the global Net Mundial event began in São Paulo, Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, enacted the Marco Civil da Internet bill, which aims to protect online privacy and sets up a form of net …

TeliaSonera, the dominant carrier in Sweden and Finland, saw its profits slip as mobile sales continued to slow. Sales for the carrier’s main mobile unit decreased by 3.5% to $3.64 billion. …

América Móvil filed an injunction against the resolution issued by Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones or IFT) naming the telecom giant a dominant player in the Mexican telecom …

Spanish telecom giant Telefónica will provide wireless Internet connections for the high-end electric car the Tesla S in Europe ― and reportedly its getting paid millions to do it. While …

The Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (Ifetel) has declared that América Móvil units Telmex and Telcel are prevailing economic operators in the telecommunications sector. Ifetel had already named Televisa the dominant …

A lot is going on this week at Mobile World Congress 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain. With a number of announcements, RCR Wireless News has separated those related to the …

The Latin American giant telecom group América Móvil (AMX) posted its fourth quarter and full year results for 2013. While in the 4Q13, AMX’s profit rose 15.7%, when comparing the entire year …

Mobile wallet, satellite broadband, carrier Wi-Fi, fiber-to-the-home, machine-to-machine services and LTE are the main technology trends in Latin America for 2014, according to Frost & Sullivan. The key technology this …

Despite a recent negative antitrust ruling, Vivo, the Brazilian unit of Spanish Telefónica, views 2013 as a good year. The carrier focused on increasing its postpaid base and encouraging data …

Last month Spanish telecom operator Telefonica announced it was increasing its stake in the holding entity that controls a 22.4% stake in the largest Italian operator, Telecom Italia. While the new agreement

América Móvil has backed away from its $10 billion offer to acquire a controlling interest in Dutch wireless operator KPN even though the deal had gained approval from Dutch regulators. …

Latin American regulators are more concerned about the mobile market concentration in some countries, such as Colombia, Mexico and Peru, and they have implemented a range of measures in an attempt to foster competition.

As expected, América Móvil announced its intention to make a voluntary cash tender offer for the outstanding ordinary shares of KPN at a price of $3.20 per share, which implies …

América Móvil (AMX) has terminated its relationship agreement with KPN, which opens the way for América Móvil to increase its stake in the Dutch telecom group. The agreement kept América Móvil …

The two largest telecom operators in Latin America have released their second quarter financial results. América Móvil beat expectations, reporting better-than-expected second quarter core profits and revenue, as more customers …

AT&T divested itself of 540 million shares in Latin American-based telecom giant America Movil in a move the carrier said was designed to maintain its position in America Movil following …

4G Americas reported that there are now 20 commercial LTE networks in nine Latin American countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico and …