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Analyst Angle: Carriers will benefit from OTT video boom in Latin America

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Many carriers see the proliferation of over-the-top (OTT) video services such as Netflix as a threat...

Analyst Angle: Government intervention jeopardizes Argentina’s telecom development

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. The Argentinean government’s intervention in the economy has increased significantly over the past year, causing some...

Analyst Angle: Colombian mobile market cap proposal doesn’t benefit consumers

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. More than 200 years ago, Edmund Burke said one of the most over-quoted sentences in history:...

Analyst Angle: What is the big deal about LTE spectrum auctions in Latin America?

Spectrum auctions for next generation mobile services have two different strategic implications for our region. First, in developing markets such as Latin America, mobile broadband is a crucial, cost-effective opportunity to increase broadband penetration, fulfill local governments' goals of digital inclusion and bring digital...

Analyst Angle: 3 Group shows the way for carriers to partner with OTTs

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Three Group has often been ahead of the curve when it comes to taking innovative services...

Analyst Angle: Social network integration and pricing innovation

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Even with flattening growth rates and price pressure from increasing competition, voice is still a very...

Analyst Angle: Foreign telecom investment in Mexico

As the second largest telecommunications market in Latin America, Mexico commands great interest from foreign companies. Nevertheless, over the last decade most of the attention has originated

Analyst Angle: Wi-Fi in Brazil goes beyond mobile offloading

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Mobile broadband is still a growing market in Brazil, led by Vivo with its wide HSPA+...

Analyst Angle: Latin American pay-TV market still growing rapidly

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. With 48.9 million subscribers and an average household penetration rate over 32.1% in 2011, the Latin...

Analyst Angle: Excluding Claro from Colombia’s LTE auction is counterproductive

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Despite all the efforts of the Colombian ICT ministry, Mintic, to award LTE spectrum in December,...

Analyst Angle: Hybrid pricing as a postpaid strategy for emerging markets

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. We recently conducted a study on postpaid strategies in Latin America, and one of the key...

Analyst Angle: Mobile termination rate cuts had little impact on Latin American market dynamics

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Latin America was considered one of the most flexible regions in terms of mobile termination rate regulation...

Analyst Angle: Argentina’s telecom regulation case study

The telecommunications world is not without the phenomenal power of marketing, especially if the models being promoted are located thousands of miles away. It is for this reason that in private,

Analyst Angle: Anatel’s sales ban highlights need for change in Brazil’s mobile market

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Recent battles between Brazil’s telecom regulator, Anatel, and the country’s top mobile operators highlight that it...

Analyst Angle: Puerto Rico mobile market update

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Puerto Rico’s telecommunications market exhibits the dichotomy characteristic of most liberalized markets: hyper-competition on the mobile service...

Analyst Angle: Central, Eastern European markets in structural impasse

We recently attended Capacity CEE 2012 in Prague, where regional wholesalers and their retail customers shared their perspectives on the market. There was, of course, a lot of fighting talk

Analyst Angle: Brazil begins the race for 4G coverage

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Anatel, the Brazilian regulator, concluded its spectrum auction on June 12, offering 4G services in the...

Analyst Angle: Let’s talk Caribbean telecoms!

The Caribbean poses an intriguing paradigm to telecom players in the Americas. Geographically it is part of the region, but unfortunately the development of its telecom sector is mostly ignored in the continental markets.

Analyst Angle: TIM Brasil surpasses Vivo in São Paulo, but needs to ensure sustainable growth

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. After reaching the second position in the Brazilian mobile market last August, TIM Brasil reached another...

Analyst Angle:The evolution of iDEN operators

During the last decade, Latin America's telecom industry has seen the rise and fall of many challengers to the iDEN "push-to-talk" service. The would-be successors used different technologies

Analyst Angle: HSPA+ and LTE offer a unique opportunity in Latin America, Caribbean

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. A primary challenge for wireless operators in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past three...

Analyst Angle: Anatel should have amended LTE spectrum auction rules to be more attractive

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In January 2012, Anatel opened the LTE-spectrum auction rules for public consideration. The rules included details...

Analyst Angle: Reviewing Latin America’s MVNOs scenario

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.  More than ten years ago I authored the report “MVNO Opportunities in Latin America,” which recognized that...

Analyst Angle: Regulation & IP-based services

Technology innovation has driven the growth of full service providers in Latin America and the Caribbean in a period characterized by the continuous decrease in the number of facilities-based telecom operators.