BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The numbers of cellular phones in Colombia will have 10 digits as of 1 June in accordance with new Ministry of Communications regulations. Therefore, three digits will be added to the 3.55 million cellular phones serviced by Comcel (Am
SAN ANTONIO—SBC Communications Inc. said it will begin offering stand alone Cingular Wireless options and discounted service packages as part of its communications and entertainment service portfolio.The Cingular service options will initially be available in the SBC Ameritech states of Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—U.K.-based company Logica has just inaugurated its new office for South America in Buenos Aires, with the aim to promote its applications for mobile services."Operators are increasingly outsourcing these services because they are very expensive and are not a part of their...
CARACAS, Venezuela—Telcel BellSouth has signed a contract to allow Lucent Technologies Inc. to build its wireless network based on cdma2000 technology.Lucent will upgrade the carrier's CDMA base stations with cdma2000 1x channel cards and software, supply 1x EV-DO equipment and offer installation and engineering...
CARACAS, Venezuela—Lucent Technologies and Telcel BellSouth announced a three-year agreement to continue building a cdma2000 network in Venezuela. The initial deployment of 1x equipment has begun in Caracas and will expand to other areas of the country.Lucent said it may supply 1xEV-DO equipment in...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Cellular clients in Colombia increased by 10 percent during this year's first quarter, amounting to 3.55 million subscribers, according to official information released by the Ministry of Communications.Comcel, majority owned by Am
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The decrease in cellular users in Argentina has generated a new strategy for operators, consisting of the sale of used terminals with lower costs than new ones. During the last four months, the value of new terminals has tripled as a consequence...
By Alejandro AlfieBUENOS AIRES, Argentina—As the economic crisis in Argentina continues, the impact is being felt throughout South America’s mobile industry.“The situation in Argentina has dramatically affected the mobile penetration in the country,” said Leslie Arathoon, Latin America Manager of Pyramid Research. “This means...
SANTO DOMINO, Dominican Republic—Telecom company Tricom said it launched digital trunking services in Panama. The iDEN network is targeted at the corporate market and builds on the company's long-term plans to build a pan-regional Central American digital trunking network.Tricom said it has invested about...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—BellSouth doubled the quantity of users during the last six months in Ecuador, which caused a 40-percent increase in phone traffic and the saturation of its network. Consequently, the company decided to suspend the incorporation of new users and destined US$18 million...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Colombian government passed a decree authorizing the auction of three regional licenses for personal communications services (PCS) on the C band of 1900 MHz, during which it is expecting to raise more than US$1 billion. The Colombian cellular market has 3...
ATLANTA, United States—BellSouth announced it sold its entire stake, or 234.7 million shares, in Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN. The sale will give the company an after-tax gain of US$850 million during the first quarter.BellSouth and KPN in January restructured their relationship to allow...
ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. announced it sold its entire stake, or 234.7 million shares, in Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN. The sale will give the company an after-tax gain of $850 million during the first quarter.BellSouth and KPN in January restructured their relationship to allow BellSouth...
NEW YORK—Celerica Inc., a start-up wireless infrastructure provider based in Morristown, N.J., said it has commenced a beta trial of its technology for rapid cell site deployment with Cellcom, a BellSouth Corp. subsidiary that is Israel's second-largest mobile carrier.The Celerica 500 System provides on-demand...
ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. closed its previously announced agreement with Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN, restructuring the relationship between the two companies.Under the agreement, BellSouth exchanged its 22.51-percent stake in German mobile operator E-Plus for 234.7 million shares of KPN, or 9.42 percent of KPN's outstanding...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Peruvian cellular telephony market grew 20 percent during 2001, reaching 1.6 million users by the end of the year. Despite the arrival of a third operator, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), Peru continues to have a low cellular telephony penetration rate."The sector...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Colombia and Ecuador took several measures to accelerate the personal communications services (PCS) licenses auction that they plan to hold in the third quarter of 2002. Colombia's Ministry of Communications rejected the complaint appeal presented by BellSouth in October 2001, while Ecuador...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Dutch telecommunications giant KPN will buy the remaining 22.5-percent interest in German mobile-phone operator E-Plus that it does not already own from U.S.-based BellSouth for about US$1.06 billion in KPN stock, giving KPN full control of E-Plus.As part of the deal, KPN...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Cellular telephony operator BellSouth attained gains of US$17 million in Latin America during the last quarter of 2001, even though it had less income and lost more than 500,000 clients—mainly prepaid—in the region.BellSouth lost 1.1 percent of its users in Argentina and...
