BROWSING: Venezuela

BBC | February 9, 2011 Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo. The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world. The new connection...

Global Crossing | February 8, 2011 | Press Release FLORHAM PARK, N.J., /PRNewswire/ --Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading IP solutions provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network, today announced that the broadcast and media services offered by its Global Crossing Genesis Solutions...

ABC News | February 8, 2011 | Marc Frank Fiber Optics Finally Reach Cuba But Access to Personal Computers Still Long Way Off The Caribbean Basin teams with underwater fiber optic cables, but not a one touched the largest island until today when the Ile de...

Maravedis | January 26, 2011 | Cintia Garza Latin America is the quietest region in terms of LTE deployments and operator commitments. Other regions such as Europe and Asia Pacific have shown much more LTE activity, accounting for 35% and 26% of the 145 LTE...

Wall Street Journal | January 27, 2011 | Ezequiel Minaya CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's second-largest telephone service provider, Telefonica Venezuela, said it has reached agreement with Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) to continue blocking service to handsets that are reported stolen. Officials at the local...

AOL News | January 24, 2011 | Lauren Frayer One of the world's most unplugged countries is about to get high-speed Internet, courtesy of an old friend. A specialized ship began laying fiber-optic cable under the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela toward Cuba this past weekend, launching...

Digitel | January 17, 2011 | Press Release Cost Reduction and Reduced Delivery Times Cited as Key Benefits; Customers Have Quick and Secure Access to Information REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - January 17, 2011) - Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Corporación Digitel CA, a telecommunications company offering...

Adveriser Talk | December 2010 CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18 percent in the number of fixed broadband connections in Venezuela, which represents a penetration of 5.2 per 100 inhabitants, during...

Reuters | Daniel Wallis | Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:49pm EST (Reuters) - Venezuela's parliament approved tighter regulation of the Internet on Monday in the latest of a package of laws to entrench President Hugo Chavez's...

Bloomberg | By Jose Orozco | Dec 14, 2010 3:22 PM CT Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Telefonica SA’s Venezuelan mobile-phone operator, Movistar Venezuela, and Digitel GSM to cooperate with government efforts to assist 130,000 people displaced by heavy rains or face expropriation. “The enabling law will obligate them,...

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ | CARACAS, VENEZUELA President Hugo Chavez's government is proposing to impose broadcast-type regulations on the Internet with a law that would ban messages deemed to provoke panic or show disrespect for public authorities. The proposed "Social Responsability Law" includes electronic media along with radio...