Brazil

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 …

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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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.  Follow RCR …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Claro, the Brazilian unit of América Móvil, is expanding its LTE coverage, announcing the launch of LTE services in the city of Curitiba in southern Brazil. Claro was the first …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Brazilian carrier Oi had a difficult day yesterday. Following the resignation of its CEO Francisco Valim, who occupied the position for only a year and a half, and nomination of …

Francisco Valim is no longer the chief executive officer of Brazilian telecom operator Oi. The ousting of Valim was confirmed Tuesday (January 22) after rumors during the weekend. Valim will …

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 Brazilian regulator Anatel’s telecom numbers for 2012 included some interesting highlights: 3G connections increased and both pre-paid and GSM shares decreased in Brazil. Plus for the first time, Nextel was …

The Brazilian telecommunications market is heating up, boosted by data consumption growth and the start of LTE implementation, and it is having a direct effect on the labor market. More …

Brazilian information technology companies have an ongoing problem: how to fill vacant professional IT positions that remain open year after year. Essentially, the country’s universities and technical schools are graduating …