One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% in June, with most subscribers on prepaid plans. The Chile wireless market is also...
Latin America and mobile data were the main drivers of Telefónica Group's revenue during the first nine months of 2011. Telefónica Latinoamérica reported an 8.1% rise in revenue compared with the same period last year, accounting for 46% of the group total; mobile data revenue rose 19.6%.
Chile’s secretary of telecommunications (Subtel) is set to schedule an auction of 4G spectrum, which will enable LTE deployment in the country. Subtel has yet to spell out its requirements for the bidding, which is expected to happen in next year's first quarter, but...
Virgin Group is planning to begin a mobile virtual network operator service in Chile during the first quarter of next year. “We already have an agreement with one operator,” said Peter Macnee, president and CEO for Virgin Mobile Latin America. Macnee did not reveal...
Orange Business Services announced that it plans to increase the capacity of its Latin American network by 10 times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation is expected to begin in October and will cover Brazil and Chile, followed by Argentina,...
Chilean telecoms regulator Subtel has made amendments to the General Telecommunications Law passed by Congress so that from now own Internet service providers (ISPs) are prohibited to block arbitrary applications, services and Internet content, and companies have to be transparent to users about trading conditions...
In Spain, Telefónica reported a drop of 16.3% in first-half 2011 net profit to 3.162 billion euros. In the second-quarter, net profit dropped even more: 27%. According to company, it's due to rising operating costs and a writedown of the value of its stake...
In Spain, Telefónica reported a drop of 16.3% in first-half 2011 net profit to 3.162 billion euros. In the second-quarter, net profit dropped even more: 27%. According to company, it's due to rising operating costs and a writedown of the value of its stake...
Telcordia has been chosen to administer number portability in Chile. Telcordia presented the best technical-economic setting a transaction value for each switch in exchange for 377 pesos (US$ 0.82). According to the government, that's less than half what it costs in Brazil and up to...
NEC Corp., Japan’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker, is very optimist about Latin America. Its operations in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Chile is addressing important growth, and the region will play a crucial role to help NEC reach its goals. The company...
Chile’s Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) said that four companies – Telcordia, Indra,Informática El Corte Inglés and Neustar – presented technical and economic offers to manage Chile’s number portabilitydatabase. The winner will be announced on Aug. 5, and then will have 120 days toimplement the system,...
Of all Latin America countries, Chile is in the top position of Global Innovation Index ranking 2011, just released by Insead. Chile holds the 38th place, followed by Costa Rica (45th), Brazil (47th), Argentina (58th) and Guyana (61th). Check below the Latin America ranking.
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Chilean Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, confirmed the decision of the administration of President Piñera to speed up the processing and approval of a bill designed to correct the current gaps in the regulations for telecommunications towers construction.
According to Chile’s telecom...
Financial Times | May 8, 2011 | Matthew Garrahan, Adam Thomson, Joe Leahy
Netflix, the film and television subscription service, is working on a push into Latin America and is close to announcing deals with three of the continent’s biggest broadcasters to begin streaming programming online...
NII Holdings | April 28, 2011 | Press Release
Company achieves record level of Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization
- Net subscriber additions of 403,000
- Consolidated operating revenues of $1.62 billion
- Consolidated operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA) of $431 million
- Consolidated operating income...
As Latin America begins to forge plans for next generation LTE technology, two countries in particular are blazing a path for others to follow.
Alfonso Ehijo, CTO of Reference Center for Technology and Innovation at the University of Chile, in charge of the technological evolution...
VTR | April 5, 2011 | Press Release
April 5, 2011 .- The telecommunications company VTR joined the Association of Mobile Telephony, ATELMO, composed of the major mobile companies in Chile.
VTR's decision to join was born out of their interest to participate in the agenda...
February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...
February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...
Business News Americas | March 9, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Broadband data management company Tekelec (Nasdaq: TKLC) expects to deploy its policy and charging rules function (PCRF) for an additional six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (CALA) by midyear, Federico Navarro, Tekelec's CALA sales...
Business News Americas | March 2, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean telco Movistar expects to launch in the next year a series of new applications around the areas of education, e-health and mobile banking, senior executives from the operator told BNamericas.
The notion that mobile operators have...
Rapid TV News | February 23, 2011 | Iñaki Ferreras
Spain's leading telco Telefónica and one of Mexico’s main broadcasters TV Azteca have renewed their deal to operate in Peru.
Movistar TV, Telefónica's brand in this and other Latin American territories, renewed the contract with the...
Bloomberg | February 24, 2011 | Crayton Harrison
NII Holdings Inc., the wireless carrier that uses the Nextel brand in Latin America, gained the most in 10 months in Nasdaq Stock Market trading after reporting record subscriber additions in the fourth quarter.
The mobile-phone company rose...
Business News Americas | February 21, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
Latin America is expected to reach some 910,000 IPTV connections by year-end compared with 400,000 at end-2010, consultancy firm Dataxis NexTV research director Carlos Blanco told BNamericas
"The market will experience a significant expansion this...
