Since TIM acquired AES Atimus for $1 billion in November 2011, there has been speculation about how the company would integrate this asset into its existing portfolio. At the time of the acquisition,
The Brazilian government has approved a tax reduction for locally produced smartphones. According to the decree published in the Official Gazette, the PIS/COFINS tax levied on smartphones priced up to $763 (R$1,500) will be abolished. The exemption also includes digital routers.
The measure has been...
Four Brazilian carriers announced infrastructure sharing agreements for the deployment of LTE networks. Following an announcement by TIM and Oi that they had made a deal to share telecom infrastructure, Vivo and Claro also announced they had signed a memorandum of understanding to share...
Ensuring network quality is one of telecom operators' biggest challenges. In Brazil, mobile carriers are facing huge governmental pressure to improve their service and network quality. TIM, the No. 2 carrier in the Brazilian market, is using Actix's ActixOne platform to help identify and diagnose...
Telecom Italia's Brazilian unit, TIM, announced that it will invest U.S.$5.41 billion from 2013 to 2015, focusing on increasing its customer base, expanding 3G coverage and improving service quality.
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The company recently announced a new CEO and released...
As RCR Wireless News reported earlier, the Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia, TIM Brasil, recently named Rodrigo Abreu, its new CEO replacing Andrea Mangoni, who has led TIM for less than a year. Abreu has been the country manager at Cisco Brazil for the last four...
Now two telecom operators in Brazil are looking for new CEOs. Following the announcement of Oi CEO Francisco Valim's departure in January, the No. 2 mobile phone company in Brazil, TIM, said that CEO Andrea Mangoni will step down March 4. Mangoni was named...
Two major telecom operators in Brazil announced that they have started trials using near field communication (NFC) technologies for mobile payments. TIM has partnered with Itaú, MasterCard and Gemalto for its pilot project, while Vivo has chosen Bradesco and Cielo. Itaú and Bradesco are two of...
TIM Brasil is facing yet another difficulty. The Brazilian telecom regulator, Anatel, has suspended sales of TIM’s “Infinity Day” plan, a new promotion that offers unlimited local calls for U.S.$0.24 (R$0.50) per day. Anatel cited potential instability in the mobile service support network as well...
Andrea Mangoni, TIM Brasil’s CEO, opened the third quarter conference call with analysts by highlighting that growth in data and smartphone base has driven an 8% net revenue growth for the company to U.S.$2.326 billion (R$4.722 billion) year over year. It also helped create...
The last carrier to release the names of its LTE providers, TIM, announced that it has chosen Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks as partners to provide the next generation of telecommunication networks in Brazil.
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TIM said it has...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Telecom operators have to secure partnerships to make the machine-to-machine market take off across Brazil. During a panel held at this week’s Futurecom event, executives from carriers and vendors discussed the main challenges of developing solutions to fit in the...
RIO DE JANEIRO – TIM Brasil, which belongs to Telecom Italia, and Brazilian state-owned telecommunications provider Telebras have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on providing fiber optic capabilities to portions of the country in order to improve Internet broadband services and comply...
RIO DE JANEIRO – It has not been an easy year for TIM Brasil, the Brazilian wireless unit of Telecom Italia. Earlier this year its (now) former CEO, Luca Luciani, resigned following a scandal involving the exaggeration of the carrier's customer base through the...
In a month when Anatel, Brazil's telecom regulatory agency, banned three telecom operators from selling mobile services for ten days, the country registered the lowest growth rate since 2006: with only 279,723 new active lines added in July. Brazil now counts a total of 256.41 million of...
Anatel reports TIM disconnected calls on purpose
A report released last week by Brazil’s telecom regulator agency Anatel claims that TIM Brasil purposely dropped calls on customers of its low-cost Infinity Plan that charges customers by the call and not on the length of those...
Telecom Italia's Brazilian unit announced that its second quarter net revenue grew 7% year over year to U.S.$2.23 billion(R$4.547 billion). Total gross revenues were U.S.$3.28 billion (R$6.7 billion), 10.2% more than 2Q11 and 2.6% more than 1Q12. However, the carrier’s net income fell 0.9% to U.S.$170...
There is no deadline set for ending the suspension of three Brazilian carriers that have been prohibited from selling new mobile services since July 23. Both the minister of communication (Minicom), Paulo Bernardo, and the president of Brazilian telecom regulator agency Anatel, João Rezende,...
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Anatel, the Brazilian regulator, concluded its spectrum auction on June 12, offering 4G services in the...
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The week of June 10 was one of the most eagerly awaited in the history of Latin America's telecommunications industry....
The first step to a national LTE deployment in Brazil began yesterday with the beginning of spectrum auctions conducted by government regulator Anatel. There were few surprises among first-day winners – the country's big-four carriers, but the results pave the way for the start...
Brazil's auction of LTE spectrum produced no surprises as the country's largest operators secured spectrum assets in the 2.5 GHz band designed for the rollout of mobile broadband services. Brazil's regulatory body Anatel noted that carriers bid a total of $1.314 billion (R$2.72 billion)...
Brazilian telecom agency Anatel said that six telecom groups have submitted bids for Brazil's upcoming frequency tenders in the 2.5 GHz and 450 MHz bands. The bidding events are intended to help roll out LTE technology throughout the country.
The participating telecom groups are Claro...
Brazil's No. 2 carrier, TIM Brasil, announced it has chosen Cisco and its partner PromonLogicalis to manage the implementation of 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The Wi-Fi hotspots are part of...
