With the anticipated end of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, telecommunication services are expected to increase, bringing the country into the 21st century. The general expectation is that Internet access will grow since the U.S. government will start allowing telecommunication companies to set up the necessary equipment and other...
Brazil's mobile market ended April with almost 2.5 million LTE connections. Although the total LTE base is still relatively small (less than 1% penetration), LTE use has been increasing, with record growth last month. Led by Claro, which added 177,000 new LTE connections in April,...
Ecuador’s national telecommunications regulator, Conatel, has given the public company CNT EP (Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) approval to provide technology services using the next generation of mobile technology.
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Ecuador's national telecom regulator, Conatel, announced that the country will adopt the 700 MHz spectrum band, also known as the digital dividend, to deploy the next generation of telecommunication services using LTE technology. Conatel also released that it has chosen the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) segmentation...
Mobile phone numbers in Ecuador will include the number "9" by Sept. 30, as a measure to increase the number capacity to 100 million available mobile phone numbers. The increase will allow the country to meet future voice and data demand.
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Alcatel-Lucent signed an agreement with Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones to extend the telecom providers network nationwide.
Alcatel-Lucent said it will provide a range of applications focused on the deployment of a new 3G mobile broadband network in Ecuador, including the access (RAN -...
The Brazilian telecommunications wholesale market could become more competitive as Colombian Internexa, which is affiliated with ISA, announced the launch of services in Brazil. Internexa said it has invested $30 million into its Brazilian operations with the goal to gain 21% market share over...
The mobile line penetration in Ecuador is 108%, with 8.4% of people in the country having a smartphone, according to a report by the Ecuadorian Minister of Telecommunications and Information (MINTEL).
The report, based on a survey of nearly 22,000 households in December, 78.8%...
Internet penetration in Ecuador is poised to reach 37.9% -- nearly 5.5 million users -- in December, an increase of 37% compared with 2010, when the country had 28% penetration and 3.6 million. The number of broadband Internet users has grown from 35,066 users...
Ecuador ended November with 15.76 million mobile subscribers, of which prepaid and GSM mobile phones accounted for the largest portion, according to the Ecuadorian Superintendence of Telecommunications (Supertel).
The country's prepaid base accounted for 13.35 million of users, while postpaid accounts numbered 2.41 million at...
Much of Latin America can now access Apple Inc.’s iTunes Store as the company launched its music store today in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
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Ecuador has unveiled its national digital strategy, with the goal of having Internet access in place for half of the country's households by 2015, up from a current level of 29%.
After investing US$ 20 million to launch HSPA+ technology and begin to offer 4G services in Guayaquil, the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, Movistar has announced deployment of HSPA+ network in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, allowing its users to experience...
By 2014, Ecuador plans to have broadband increase significantly, with small and medium businesses (SMB) and major rural area connnect to broadband, as well as increased residential coverage by 2015, triple the number of connections to broadband by 2016 and achieve at least 75%...
Ecuadorian National Telecommunication Corp. (CNT in Spanish, from Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) announced that it will invest US $8.2 million in order to construct fiber-optic infrastructure.
According to government, there are 34 projects focused on development of telecommunications in the country, covering 21 processes that...
Telefónica Movistar has invested US$ 20 million to launch HSPA+ technology and begin to offer 4G services in Guayaquil, the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador. The mobile network will be the most advanced in the country. With HSPA +, Movistar’s customers...
TeleGeography | March 28, 2011
Mexican telecoms group America Movil (AM) has decided to rebrand fixed broadband unit Telmex Ecuador under the Claro moniker used across AM’s Latin American operations, reports Telecompaper. The decision follows Telmex Ecuador’s sister cellco Conecel dropping its well-established Porta brand...
Business News Americas | March 25, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
A need to understand market particularities make Ecuador the most likely country for a new SAP(NYSE: SAP) subsidiary, the company's sales vice president for Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, Leonel Graff, told BNamericas.
SAP currently maintains...
SES World Skies | March 15, 2011 | Press Release
SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), today announced a new capacity deal with Axesat aimed at meeting escalating ...
Synchronica | March 1, 2011 | Press Release
Highlights:
Porta Ecuador offers Synchronica-based mobile instant messaging (IM) service to all 10.3 million subscribers
Porta's carrier-branded mobile IM service will create customer stickiness and reduce churn
Synchronica's industry-standard IMPS technology provides Porta with the opportunity to gain a high...
Synchronica | March 1, 2011 | Press Release
Highlights:
Porta Ecuador offers Synchronica-based mobile instant messaging (IM) service to all 10.3 million subscribers
Porta's carrier-branded mobile IM service will create customer stickiness and reduce churn
Synchronica's industry-standard IMPS technology provides Porta with the opportunity to gain a high...
Wall Street Journal | February 17, 2011 | Mercedes Alvaro
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QUITO (Dow Jones)--Ecuador's largest cellphone company, Porta Celular, the local unit of Mexican communications giant America Movil SAB, (AMX, AMX.MX) plans to invest about $180 million during 2011 in the Andean country,...
Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
Rolling out both a cloud-based offering and opening Colombia offices are among French software provider Dassault Systemes' Latin American priorities this year, the company's regional president, Marcelo Lemos, told BNamericas.
The French firm recently introduced its...
Business News Americas | February 18, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
Rolling out both a cloud-based offering and opening Colombia offices are among French software provider Dassault Systemes' Latin American priorities this year, the company's regional president, Marcelo Lemos, told BNamericas.
The French firm recently introduced its...
