The Brazilian regulator Anatel's telecom numbers for 2012 included some interesting highlights:Â 3G connections increased and both pre-paid and GSM shares decreased in Brazil. Plus for the first time, Nextel was included in Anatel's rankings. Last year, a little more than 19.5 million new mobile...
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 professionals are needed. However, like the shortage in the IT sector, telecom companies may...
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 fewer professionals than the market requires. And the information and communications technology (ICT) sector...
Correction note: after this post was published it was noticed that the word billion was used inappropriate in lieu of the word million.
Brazil's largest carriers — Vivo, Claro, Oi, TIM and Nextel — have joined together in a consortium to build distributed antenna systems...
European mobile payment solution company MPowa announced that it is looking at Brazil as a potential key market, and it plans to start business there through partners. The company sees a strong demand in Brazil as well as in other South American countries, and...
Femtocells deployments have yet to start in Brazil due to a lack of required legislation. A proposed bill that would regulate small cells aimed at extending network coverage indoors is under public consultation until Jan. 25. However, while Brazilian telecom regulatory Anatel mulls the...
Mobile commerce in Brazil is rising. Purchases made from tablets and smartphones doubled in 2012, reaching 10% of total e-commerce sales, according a survey conducted by the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (Camara-e.net) with its members of the retail committee.
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While still too expensive for many consumers, tablets are gaining ground with consumers in Brazil, a recent survey from IDC Brazil noted. According to the survey, the Brazilian tablet market's good performance helped the country secure tenth place in the world ranking of new...
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For Brazil, 2012 marked another year of amazingly rapid change for both consumers and service providers as the full force...
The sales of mobile phones in Brazil decreased 15.3% in the third quarter of 2012 over the same period last year, according to a study conducted by IDC. A total of 15.3 million mobile devices were sold in Q3, of which 4.2 million...
Qualcomm’s tablet strategy is becoming clearer. The company set up a research and development engineering center in Brazil to develop tablet designs and technologies to sell a near-complete product to manufacturers. “The goal is to help manufacturers build affordable tablets by releasing Qualcomm reference...
Brazilian manufacturer Gradiente said this week it has started to sell a new line of smartphones using Google’s Android operating system under the name "G Gradiente Iphone." Yes, that's correct: Gradiente is using Apple's famous smartphone name for a device running Android — and...
Brazilian carrier Oi has launched IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and broadband services with speeds up to 200 Mbps based on its fiber to the home (FTTH) network. When Oi named Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft as its IPTV vendors in July, the carrier said it was expecting to...
With little fanfare, NII Holdings' Brazilian operations, Nextel Brazil, has started to offer 3G data plans in a handful of markets across the country. The carrier has started to sell modem data plan based on its 3G networks with the goal to add voice...
Brazilian telecom infrastructure outsourcing market is heating up. The P2 Brasil fund, a joint venture formed by Pátria Investimentos and Grupo Promon, have announced a new startup, Highline do Brasil, focused on providing sites and distributed antenna system (DAS) infrastructure to carriers. The new...
Motorola Mobility LLC, owned by Google, will stop manufacturing products in China and Brazil. The company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Singapore-based Flextronics which will acquire Motorola's manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China and assume the management and operation of its facility in...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
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The Brazilian unit of Telefónica, Vivo, has announced the launch of an over-the-top, on-demand video service. Called Vivo Play, it is Telefónica's latest application for access to entertainment content via the Internet, aiming to meet mobility needs.
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During a press conference for the launch of m-payment services in Brazil, Antonio Carlos Valente, Telefónica Brazil’s CEO, confirmed that the Spanish telecom giant is moving its Latin American headquarters from Madrid to São Paulo.
Although Valente did not release many details, he did say that the company...
Brazil has stepped further into the femtocell field. The board of directors of the Brazilian telecom regulatory agency, Anatel, has decided to subject the use of femtocell networks in personal and specialized mobile service to public consultation. The regulation of femtocells was expected. Over the past...
Less than a week after Claro and Bradesco announced their m-payment platform, Telefónica and MasterCard held a press conference yesterday in São Paulo to present a similar solution with the same goal: to include Brazilians without bank accounts in the financial system, using a...
In the beginning of November, Brazil's telecommunications regulator Anatel — the Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (National Agency of Telecommunications) — established new regulations for companies that provide broadband connections. The new measures are meant to regulate service quality, with the goal to maintain at...
