Reuters | Thu Dec 23, 2010 | Reporting by Daniel Fineren and Armando Tovar
Dec 23 (Reuters) - Dominant Mexican fixed-line telecoms operator Telmex and mobile phone operator Telcel have agreed a gradual reduction...
Reuters | Cyntia Barrera | Wed Dec 22, 2010
Dec 22 (Reuters) - A company controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim as well as an affiliate of broadcaster Televisa (TV.N) (TLVACPO.MX) could be lightly fined for providing poor service, a Mexican regulator said on Wednesday.
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SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/20/10 -- Aicent Inc. (www.aicent.com) announced today that Telcel, Mexico's leading wireless services provider, has selected the Aicent MMS Gateway Service to provision their global multimedia message service (MMS) capabilities. Now Telcel is able to send and receive...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 10 largest wireless carriers worldwide based on subscriber numbers at the end of the first quarter of 2010 unless noted. The No. 11 through No. 20 largest carriers will be listed next week.
Subscriber information and markets...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 10 largest wireless carriers worldwide based on subscriber numbers at the end of 2009 unless noted. The No. 11 through No. 20 largest carriers will be listed next week.
Subscriber information and markets lists are from carrier...
Armed with its new equity stake partner, Nextel Mexico officially entered its name into the list of bidders for new spectrum in Mexico.The iDEN carrier announced earlier this week that it would sell a 30% equity stake in the company to Grupo Televisa for...
While e-readers and personal navigation devices may be popular “embedded device” gift items this year, their success also will drive the emerging sector to bring even more innovative products to market in the next 12 to 18 months. The potential of the space also...
While Mexico's long-awaited auction for 3G licenses may be good for consumers, a new entrant in the marketplace likely will have a difficult time gaining marketshare or realizing a profit soon, according to IE Market Research Corp., which recently issued a five-year forecast on...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Brazil: Brasil Telecom selected Ericsson for a W-CDMA/HSPA network deployment...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Mexico: Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. said it won a contract...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-3G Americas elected Andrew Corp. to its board of governors.The company said it will be represented on the board by JC Huang and Ray Butler.Other board of governors members are Cingular Wireless, Cable & Wireless (West Indies), Ericsson, Gemplus, Hewlett-Packard Co., Lucent Technologies...
LOS ANGELES-TechnoCom Corp., provider of wireless location operations support systems and business support system solutions, announced it has aligned with Venezuela-based Grupo Secusat in a joint venture that will operate as Secusat International.The joint operation will provide wireless location solutions, including fleet management, stolen...
ATLANTA-Mobile content delivery and Internet access technology provider Access announced that Mexican wireless operator Radiomovil Dipsa S.A. de C.V., known as Telcel, will use technologies and services from Access, including its Premium Content Subscription Server (PCSS), to develop its next-generation WAP services.PCSS allows operators...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Wireless e-mail company Research In Motion Ltd. continued its international expansion, launching a new BlackBerry device with European carrier MmO2 and racking up deals with Telcel in Latin America and Smart Communications in the Philippines.To date, RIM's BlackBerry is available through carrier relationships...
NEW YORK CITY-LocatioNet said it will supply a location-based services middleware platform and geographic information system (GIS) to Telcel, Mexico's largest operator. Telcel will be the first mobile operator in Mexico to offer commercial location services, LocatioNet said.The value of the contract was not...
DENVER, United States-Major European carriers are conducting Enhanced Data Networks for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials, highlighting a major triumph for a technology once proclaimed dead.Burdened by the cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and technical hiccups with launching Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it scored a deal to supply PT Telkomunikasi Indonesia in Bali with CDMA 1xRTT gear. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Separately, Ericsson said it will supply multimedia messaging services infrastructure to Mexican carrier Telcel. Telcel said it will commercially launch...
CARACAS, Venezuela—Lucent Technologies and Telcel BellSouth announced a three-year agreement to continue building a cdma2000 network in Venezuela. The initial deployment of 1x equipment has begun in Caracas and will expand to other areas of the country.Lucent said it may supply 1xEV-DO equipment in...
ORLANDO, Florida, United States—Following on a meeting of operators and vendors with an interest in Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology at the 3GSM World Congress in France last month, the EDGE Operators Forum officially formed and met in Orlando in March...
DENVER, United States—Venezuela's leading operator, Telecommunicaciones Movilnet, signed a US$150 million contract that will allow Lucent Technologies to build a nationwide third-generation (3G) cdma2000 wireless network to complement its existing TDMA digital network.Lucent did not announce the timeline for the launch of the network,...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse announced two Latin America contract wins on 3 October, just a day after Merrill Lynch downgraded its expectations for the company, sending Comverse's stock to a new three-year low.The company's stock was recovering after the announcements, trading at about...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—U.S.-based Aeris.net and Mexico's Telcel have launched a wireless telemetry network in Mexico. The network will offer nationwide service and will operate with Aeris.net products currently deployed in the United States and Canada.
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Under an agreement announced today, Mexican wireless carrier Telcel licensed Pumatech Inc.'s Browse-it software to give its Palm OS users the ability to surf Web content in HTML format, both on and offline.
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Under an agreement announced today, Mexican wireless carrier Telcel licensed Pumatech Inc.'s Browse-it software to give its Palm OS users the ability to surf Web content in HTML format, both on and offline.
