MIAMI – Latin American telecom operator giant America Movil has begun a project to standardize its [...]
In Argentina, 24% of the population owns a smartphone, while in Mexico the penetration rate is 20% and in Brazil it [...]
22 May 2012 by Maria Luiza Kunert, Regulation Adviser, Anatel
One of the most wrestled with subjects in the Brazilian ICT industry is network neutrality regulation in the Brazilian Internet Civil Mark, a legislative project which defines principles, guarantees, rights and duties on Internet use in Brazil.
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22 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
In Argentina, 24% of the population owns a smartphone, while in Mexico the penetration rate is 20% and in Brazil it is only 14%. Argentinians still lead when it comes to how often they use their smartphones to access the Internet with 67% of respondents saying they access the Internet on their smartphone at least [...]
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22 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
The Colombian unit of Spain’s Telefónica has unified its services under the brand Movistar. The move includes its fixed telephony, broadband services and satellite TV, and follows the company’s international direction of offering its services under three brands worldwide – Movistar, O2 and Vivo. In Colombia, Telefonica has 1.4 million fixed telephony clients, 630,000 broadband customers [...]
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21 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
MIAMI – Convergence is driving personalization, contextulizaton and a focus on the user experience across the telecom space. Customers want a seamless, real-time experience across devices, technology access, lines of business, services, payment types and users. During the Amdocs’ InTouch event (check out all our stories) held in Miami last week, Jonathon Shmukler, Amdocs’ director of revenue [...]
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21 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
Telecom Italia’s TIM Brazil led the Brazilian wireless market for growth in April with 808,000 net additions, according to Brazilian telecom agency Anatel. Rival Oi posted the second strongest growth for the month with 507,000 new lines, followed by Telefonica’s Vivo (481,000 net additions) and America Movil’s Claro (343,000 net additions). TIM, whose CEO recently [...]
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18 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
The Chilean Constitutional Tribunal (TC) has approved a law that regulates the installation of towers and antennas for mobile telephony. The decision was announced last Wednesday and now telecom companies need to modify their towers to be in compliance with the law. For example, they must withdraw them from sensitive areas. The government says the [...]
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18 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
The Brazilian information and communication technology (ICT) market topped $197.56 billion in 2011, which is a growth of 10.9% over the previous year, according to a study commissioned by the Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication (Brasscom) for the International Data Corporation (IDC). Follow RCR Wireless News – Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to our free periodic [...]
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17 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
MIAMI – Following the launch of LTE data commercial services, Puerto Rico’s telecom operator Open Mobile is preparing to launch a smartphone LTE service. Speaking at Amdocs InTouch event (check out all our stories) this week in Miami, Neville Cruz, chief technology officer at Open Mobile, said the launch is expected to occur during the [...]
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17 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
MIAMI – “Maybe you get the impression that we are doing too much, but we are not.” This was how Eli Gelman, Amdocs’ president and CEO, ended a question and answer session with analysts for the press at the InTouch event (read all our stories) held this week in Miami. After all the innovations presented [...]
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17 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott
MIAMI – Latin American telecom operator giant America Movil has begun a project to standardize its company’s primary IT systems in the region. Named America Movil One, the project was launched after Brazilian Claro transformed its business process management systems by implementing a combination of the Amdocs enterprise product catalog (EPC), customer relationship management (CRM), [...]
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