Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers| December 9, 2010
Cartagena, Colombia… Rodrigo de la Parra, the Director General of Prospective Regulation of Mexico’s Federal Commission of Telecommunications (Cofetel) has been named as ICANN’s new Latin American representative.
De la Parra has also served as the Mexican representative...
Yesterday, COFETEL, Mexico’s telecommunication regulatory agency, announced in a press release their approval of criteria that would make it easier for subscribers to take advantage of their right to number portability. Such modifications include reinforcing that a customer has the right to number portability...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.While the wireless carriers in the U.S. try to wrestle spectrum from the hands of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.There is much talk these days about the need for additional spectrum to facilitate the...
IRVINE, Calif.-Mexico's telecommunications oversight agency Cofetel has selected Comarco Wireless Test Solutions' Seven.Five Multi product to help monitor quality of service levels for Mexican cellular carriers. The Seven.Five Multi can house up to six calling modules or scanners in each chassis and multiple chassis...
MEXICO CITY-The Mexican cellular industry has grown fast and steady in recent years. From 1 million subscribers in 1997, the operators closed last year with 14 million customers, and the curve is still going upward. The government is happy, carriers are happy, and users...
MEXICO CITY-Imagine the following scenario: A company enters into a government auction to obtain spectrum. After an extremely long process, it wins frequencies because other participants couldn't follow the pace of its high bids. Everything seems OK, until the deadline to pay for the spectrum...
WASHINGTON-The old adage maintains it's all about location, that the success of an investment depends on locale. And Latin America has been the locale of choice for investors looking for incredible growth rates and high demand for service. With several countries in the region...
Argentina will adopt calling party pays for cellular as of 1 January. Trunking and paging also are expected to adopt the system in an attempt to develop these markets. The paging sector experienced a significant drop in subscribers as a result of competition with...
ORLANDO-Economic problems elsewhere in the world have hit home in Mexico's new personal communications services market. Two of the PCS license winners there-Midicel and the SPC consortium-have announced they are worried about being able to make final payments for their licenses, due Sept. 30,...
WASHINGTON-The Mexican government will auction new frequencies for paging, narrowband PCS (two-way paging), trunking and point-to-point microwave. The auctions are scheduled for late 1998 and early 1999, depending on the service, according to the Comision Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Cofetel), Mexico's regulatory agency.Earlier this year,...
NEW YORK-Nextel International Inc., Seattle, last week announced it launched commercial service of its integrated Digital Enhanced Network in Manila, Philippines, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Nextel International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., McLean, Va., owns 77 percent of Nextel S.A., the...
NEW YORK-Comunicacion Nextel de Mexico SA executives were scheduled to meet late last week with officials of the Mexico Federal Telecommunications Commission, or Cofetel, to resolve an apparent disagreement about what kinds of wireless services its licenses permit it to offer.Two wire service stories,...
