Service providers that prioritize opportunities, place their teams properly, participate knowledgeably in the supply chain, form partnerships effectively and establish credible personae are bound for success in the machine-to-machine services market.
Argentina’s unit of Spain-based Telefónica Group has selected Comptel to provide its operations support system (OSS) services. Telefónica de Argentina said it expects the service to allow it to more easily and efficiently collect and process more than 90 million network transactions daily into...
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There is no doubt that the question of what to do with over-the-top content (OTT) will...
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...
Forget about the Colombia you may know from the 1990s. The current scenario is different and much more business friendly than in the past. The government’s plan to boost telecommunications in the country is set to increase competition among operators and expedite the deployment...
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Brazilian Picture
The number of mobile broadband capable accesses in Brazil grew 82.18% last year, totalizing 18.6 million new devices, according...
Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) confirmed today it would launch operations in Colombia in the second half of the year. The company said it has received all regulatory approvals necessary to begin its business from the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, and recently...
Telefónica’s Movistar Chile anounced the transfer of 558 telecommunications towers to telecom infrastructure giant American Tower's Chilean subsidiary ATC. The purchase price reaches approximately $96 million (49.153 billion of Chilean pesos.)
The transfer of the antenna support towers' telecommunications transmission includes the facilities to keep...
The Costa Rican unit of Spanish telecom giant Telefónica filed a complaint Dec. 20 with Costa Rican telecom regulator Sutel against state-owned operator Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). Telefónica, which operates under the Movistar brand, accused ICE of anticompetitive practices in promotions for prepaid...
In Peru, the price of phone calls made from Telefonica del Peru landlines to any mobile phone will decrease 58% starting Dec. 30. Peruvian telecommunications regulator Osiptel announced a resolution approving a new rate of 0.30 soles (U.S. 11 cents) per minute, including a...
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...
Telecom infrastructure giant American Tower (AMT) unveiled plans to purchase 2,500 towers from Telefónica's Mexican subsidiary for about $500 million, excluding value-added tax. AMT said it has entered into definitive agreements with Pegaso PCS SA de CV and expects to acquire a substantial majority...
The Mexican unit of Spain’s Telefónica has invested U.S. $13 billion in the past 10 years to boost the telecommunications access in the country, Telefónica CEO Juan Antonio Abellán said.
In the coming year, the carrier said, it will focus on developing the telecom sector...
Japan's NEC and the Argentinian unit of Spain's Telefónica have announced the first step in promoting cloud computing services in Latin America. As a result of previous partnership, Telefónica Argentina launched cloud services using NEC's cloud platform.
In February, Telefónica and NEC agreed a partnership...
The Colombian unit of the Spanish group Telefónica will receive about U.S. $500 million from its parent company in 2012 from for investments, focusing on expanding its infrastructure for data services, fixed and mobile telephony.
The Brazilian unit of Spain’s Telefónica aims to be the biggest and best telecom provider in Brazil -- and that consumers recognize it as such. That might not be easy, because Telefónica Brazil faced serious problems with its Internet broadband service Speed in 2008, and it took some time to recover from the brand damage. However, the current scenario is brighter: Little more than one year after the mobile carrier Vivo’s acquisition, all Telefónica’s products will be rebranded under the Vivo name.
Colombia's ICT Ministry has published a bulletin detailing the progress of its national digital plan, Vive Digital, which was launched last year to overcome several barriers to massification of the Internet.
During a series of meetings organized by the Steering Committee of the Internet in Brazil and the Center for Information and Coordination Point BR, telecom operators disclosed target dates for providing IPv6 connectivity.
Brazil's telecom services market is poised to grow to U.S. $97 billion in 2016 from $66 billion in 2010, driven mostly by the increase of pay-TV, broadband and mobile data, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan said in a study presented in to a small...
MasterCard and the Brazilian unit of Spain's Telefónica have created a joint venture to offer mobile financial solutions, or m-payment, for 65 million Vivo consumers in Brazil. The initiative aims to create a mobile wallet allowing consumers to make payments via their mobile phones...
“The investments in the telecommunications market had not been so high since the Brazilian privatization in 1998,” said Renato Pasquini, Frost & Sullivan’s industry analyst, during a presentation of the consulting firm's newest study on the Brazilian telecommunications services market.
The investments of the biggest...
Telefónica Digital and the BlackBerry's manufacturer Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) are conducting a pilot program on using near field communications (NFC) with plans to launch the service in the next year.
First, only Telefónica’s employees will be able to trial. In collaboration...
The Brazilian carrier Vivo, owned by Spanish Telefónica, has had its commercial launch of the first HSPA+ network in Brazil. The telecom operator said Tuesday that it has deployed the technology to provide better quality and user experience with mobile Internet services, with speeds...
Spanish telecom Telefónica has signed an agreement with China Unicom to use each other's networks to expand their coverage. The agreement builds on a previous deal and extends and reinforces Telefónica's footprint by sharing the use of points of presence on their international networks.
