This week the Federal Telecommunications Institute released updated numbers for the Mexican telecom market during the third quarter of 2014.
The number of mobile line subscribers decreased a little from 103 million to 102.18 million, a penetration of 85.4 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
Telcel, owned by America Movil, lost 1.3...
LTE expansion is primary goal of investment
Spanish group Telefónica has announced two major investments in Peru and Argentina. The Telco confirmed that it will invest approximately $2 billion in 2015-17 to deploy telecom infrastructure throughout Peru.
During a visit to the country, César Alierta, Telefónica's president, reinforced...
Germany’s telecom regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, this week began the bidding process for spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz band, becoming the first European country to open up the spectrum band deemed ideal for broad LTE deployments. Also on the block are spectrum licenses in the 900...
CSP partnering with VC firm to eventually invest $1 billion with other telcos to advance digital transformation
Mardrid, Spain-based telecom provider Telefónica has partnered with an American venture capital firm to invest $200 million in the CSP’s startup incubation initiative dubbed Open Future, which connects entrepreneurs...
CANCUN, Mexico – The telecom industry is going through an extremely difficult period of change. As it moves to the digital experience, companies need to have the ability to leverage data in order to differentiate themselves. This was the main thrust of comments from...
Citi Research has raised its stance on Telefónica to "buy" from "neutral" and its target price to $17.39 per share from $14.59, according to Reuters news.
Separately, the global news agency reported that analysts are viewing Telefónica's move to raise prices in Spain as “a bold...
Deal calls for NetCracker to update BSS in seven Telefónica markets
International telecom giant Telefónica selected NetCracker Technology to update its business support systems supporting seven Latin American operations.
The deal calls for NetCracker to implement a “large-scale, multi-phase BSS and customer experience transformation program” that...
Argentina first to experience Telefónica's end-to-end customer experience solution
Telefónica has tapped Accenture and Alcatel-Lucent to implement an end-to-end customer experience solution for a range of services for its European and Latin American operations, including mobile data, voice, IPTV, high-speed Internet, cable and satellite. The goal is to allow...
Barcelona, the annual host of Mobile World Congress, is also striving to become one of Europe's top tourist cities, so the Spanish city recently brought in SAP and Telefónica to better connect travelers to its hottest attractions.
The result is “Barcelona for You” or BCN4U,...
In some ways, Spain moves at a slower pace than the rest of Europe. Spaniards tend to get up later, eat later and go to bed later than the rest of the continent, but when it comes to mobile, Spain is the fastest place...
Carrier Oi cuts 6% of workforce
Brazilian wireless carrier Oi said it was laying off 1,070 employees, or 6% of its approximately 18,000-strong total direct workforce. Last year, the company eliminated about 150 jobs at the manager and director levels.
In a comment to RCR Wireless News,...
Two major telecommunications vendors announced they have been selected by Telefónica to deploy part of the carrier’s infrastructure. Huawei will complete a software-defined networking-based IP/optical field trial with Telefónica Peru, while several units of the Spanish telco will use Cisco ASR series routers for converged metro Ethernet...
Sprint device offer targeted at its lease program; taps Telefonica for international roaming
Samsung devices may still lack the cache of Apple’s iPhone lineup, but that’s not stopping mobile operators from taking the impending launch of the latest Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge iterations...
Brazil's antitrust agency, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, gave Telefónica the green light to acquire GVT on March 25. Following the approval, the local unit of the Spanish group announced changes in executive leadership. GVT CEO Amos Genish will take the helm as president and CEO...
If approved, O2 U.K. acquisition will create country's top mobile operator
It's official. Confirming recent reports, Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, owner of U.K. operator Three, announced an agreement with the Spanish group Telefónica to buy its O2 U.K. business for $15.28 billion.
The deal includes $13.79 billion...
Movistar Chile, which belongs to the Spanish group Telefónica, signed an agreement with Chinese provider Huawei to deploy LTE technology in the 700 MHz band across 13 regions. The deployment is planned to start in March and continue through 2016. The use of LTE in the 700...
BARCELONA, Spain – Alcatel-Lucent continues to focus on being a leading provider of high-speed mobile broadband services using small cell technologies across Latin America. In a meeting with journalists at this week’s Mobile World Congress, Osvaldo di Campli, president of the Caribbean and Latin America...
Connectem’s V-EPC platform expected to bolster Brocade’s NFV, SDN services
Virtualized telecom platform provider Brocade is set to bolster its offerings through a pending acquisition of privately held LTE virtual evolved packet core provider Connectem.
The all-cash deal, with final terms not reported, will see Brocade...
Kumu Networks in business with Telefonica, SK Telecom on path to 5G
BARCELONA, Spain – Kumu Networks, a Bay Area-based company that started as a doctoral project by Stanford University students, announced major carrier deals with players Telefonica and SK Telecom.
Kumu specializes in self-interference cancellation,...
Telefónica to tap HP’s OpenNFV platform to drive NFV, SDN, cloud transformation
Spain-based telecommunications giant Telefónica reported a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to act as the technology provider and systems integrator for Telefónica’s virtualization infrastructure, which is dubbed UNICA. That program will see the telecom operator...
BARCELONA, Spain — Telecommunications giant Telefónica said it's confident about the future growth potential of most of its operations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, coming on the heels of celebrating 25 years of operations in those markets.
Speaking to a group of Latin American...
Telefónica's 2014 full-year and fourth-quarter net income slumped 34.7% and 89.5%, respectively, in a year-over-year comparison. Total revenue decreased 11.7% for the full year and 14.1% in Q4 2014.
In a statement, Telefónica's executive chairman César Alierta said that the Q4 results represent the culmination of...
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