The Brazilian pay-TV services market has been growing at an annual rate of over 30% in terms of subscribers in the past two years. This comes from the low penetration of the service
Last week was a busy one for Latin American carriers. While U.S.-based NII Holdings announced it is exiting Peru by selling its Nextel operations to Entel, Virgin Mobile announced the soft launch of its mobile virtual network operator in Colombia. Also in Colombia, Millicom’s Tigo...
Approximately 200 people are already working at Telefónica’s new Latin America headquarters, which has moved from Madrid to Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo. The announcement was made at the inauguration of a new Telefónica Brazil location: a 47,000 square-meter site on an avenue where several...
Four Brazilian carriers announced infrastructure sharing agreements for the deployment of LTE networks. Following an announcement by TIM and Oi that they had made a deal to share telecom infrastructure, Vivo and Claro also announced they had signed a memorandum of understanding to share...
Brazilians carriers that bought spectrum licenses in the 2.5 GHz frequency band at auction in June have until April to cover all the offices of the Confederations Cup, and by December 2013, they must also cover the branches and sub-offices of the 2014 World Cup. Of...
BlackBerry will start sales of its recently launched z10 touchscreen smartphone and the BlackBerry Q10 (BB10), a hybrid smartphone that includes a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, throughout Latin America beginning with Venezuela on March 12. The company, which was until recently known as...
Finnish cell phone maker Nokia is optimistic about Brazil, currently its fifth largest market behind China, India, the United States and Japan. During the Brazilian launch of the Lumia 920, 820 and 620, Almir Luiz Narcizo, Nokia Brazil's general manager, said that if the...
Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, has signed a decree (7291) establishing a special tax regime for telecom networks. Part of the National Broadband Plan (PNBL for Programa Nacional de Banda Larga), the measure provides tax exemptions for equipment and work required for the deployment of telecommunication...
Brazil's telecom regulator, Anatel, levied a fine of U.S.$17.4 million (R$34.265 million) on the national telecom operator Oi because of poor service quality. According to the watchdog agency, Oi breached twelve indicators specified in the country's mobile service quality regulations, which were enacted in 2010.
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It is official: The iPhone trademark in Brazil belongs to Gradiente. The company was granted the trademark registration to use the term in 2008 when referring to cellular telephone apparatus, cellular telephone devices that enable Internet access for both fixed and mobile telephony, digital...
Sometime between 2015 and 2016, 3G connections will surpass 2G in Latin America. After that point, 3G connections could rise to reach 58% of total accesses by 2017; 2G will still represent 37%, while LTE will account for 5%. These projections were showed at...
Telecom Italia's Brazilian unit, TIM, announced that it will invest U.S.$5.41 billion from 2013 to 2015, focusing on increasing its customer base, expanding 3G coverage and improving service quality.
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The company recently announced a new CEO and released...
The Brazilian Ministry of Communications (Minicom) has published its decision in the official gazette (Diário Oficial) to allow the allocation of the 700 MHz spectrum band for LTE mobile broadband. This means that the Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel now has the green light to open...
As RCR Wireless News reported earlier, the Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia, TIM Brasil, recently named Rodrigo Abreu, its new CEO replacing Andrea Mangoni, who has led TIM for less than a year. Abreu has been the country manager at Cisco Brazil for the last four...
Cisco reduced the predicted increase in Brazilian mobile data traffic in this year’s Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, which gives the company's predictions for the period of 2012 to 2017. Brazil’s mobile data traffic is now expected to increase 12-fold from...
Now two telecom operators in Brazil are looking for new CEOs. Following the announcement of Oi CEO Francisco Valim's departure in January, the No. 2 mobile phone company in Brazil, TIM, said that CEO Andrea Mangoni will step down March 4. Mangoni was named...
Latin American banking giant Bradesco announced it is investing about $50.25 million (R$ 100 million) of its private equity funds to become a partner of GP Investments in tower management company BR Towers.
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BR Towers was...
A decision about whether Apple can continue to use the iPhone name in Brazil will be released this week. On February 5, the Brazilian Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) will announce its decision on the matter in the Industrial Property Magazine, which serves as...
Two major telecom operators in Brazil announced that they have started trials using near field communication (NFC) technologies for mobile payments.  TIM has partnered with Itaú, MasterCard and Gemalto for its pilot project, while Vivo has chosen Bradesco and Cielo. Itaú and Bradesco are two of...
Brazil has a huge shortage of information and communications technology (ICT) professionals. There are many reasons for the shortage including: universities graduating fewer people than enterprises need; professionals migrating from the telecom industry to the construction sector when it was booming; a lack of...
