Analyst Angle:The evolution of iDEN operators
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 During the last decade, Latin America's telecom industry has seen the rise and fall of many challengers to the iDEN "push-to-talk" service. The would-be successors used different technologies

Reality Check: What is your mobile strategy?
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.

Henkel prepares global iPad deployment
Monday, May 14th, 2012 Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the [...]

Telefonica’s earnings in Latin America overtake those from Europe

Telefónica’s Latin American earnings surpassed its earnings from Europe for the first time in the Spanish [...]

Telecom Italia maintains Brazilian C-level team, project deadlines

MIAMI – Telecom Italia has conducted meetings with TIM Brazil team to sooth employee concerns about the [...]

TIM Brazil prepares ultra high-speed broadband service launch

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16 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

MIAMI – The Brazilian unit of Telecom Italia is preparing for a third-quarter launch of its ultra high-speed broadband service using VDSL networks. Branded with an English name, ‘Live TIM’ has been in trials since May 7. The service will be first available in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, following TIM [...]

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Challenges and opportunities for WiGig

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16 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

WiGig is expected to revolutionize Wi-Fi by offering up to 10 times higher speeds (around 7 gigabits/second) than today’s Wi-Fi devices do. Although products using this technology have already been announced at CES 2012, it is expected that the first few products will show up by the third quarter this year. “Over the next few [...]

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Analyst Angle:The evolution of iDEN operators

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16 May 2012 by Jose Otero, President, Signals Consulting

During the last decade, Latin America's telecom industry has seen the rise and fall of many challengers to the iDEN "push-to-talk" service. The would-be successors used different technologies

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Telecom Italia maintains Brazilian C-level team, project deadlines

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15 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

MIAMI – Telecom Italia has conducted meetings with TIM Brazil team to sooth employee concerns about the telecom operator’s future following a scandal that resulted in its Brazilian CEO resigning. In talks with Brazilian press during the Amdocs InTouch event held this week in Miami, Flavio Lang, the chief marketing officer at TIM Brazil, said [...]

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Amdocs steps up intelligent set-top box, M2M innovations

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15 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

MIAMI - Amdocs has set its sights on transforming the set-top box into a media center controlled by tablets with integrated real-time social media and sharing tools. The 30-year-old customer experience system and services company is engaging 22 different areas in its innovation program to achieve these results. Ran Achituv, Amdocs’ chief technology officer, knows the [...]

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Digicel adds NFC to its mobile money service in Tonga

15 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

The mobile network operator Digicel has added NFC technology to its Digicel Mobile Money service offering in the South Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga. Digicel said it will make the service available initially with 50 merchants in the capital of Nuku’alofa and it plans to extend the service across the island. The new service is [...]

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Telefonica’s earnings in Latin America overtake those from Europe

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15 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

Telefónica’s Latin American earnings surpassed its earnings from Europe for the first time in the Spanish group’s history. The telecom operator announced first quarter 2012 earnings of 15,511 million euros, while operating income before depreciation and amortization (Oibda) dropped 8.8% to 5.08 billion euros ($6.6 billion). The carrier highlighted that revenue growth is one of [...]

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Reality Check: What is your mobile strategy?

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15 May 2012 by Fernando Alvarez, Capgemini

It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.

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Henkel prepares global iPad deployment

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14 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon; other times it is the corporation that starts the process. After studying the corporate use of iPad and iPhones, [...]

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Brazil’s Oi uses app to help offload 3G data traffic; targets 1M hotspots

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14 May 2012 by Roberta Prescott

Brazilian telecom operator Oi has gone a step further in its 3G data offload strategy. The company unveiled an Android application to improve the user experience when switching from 3G to Wi-Fi networks. “Offloading 3G is an important key in our strategy, which is focused on aggregating value to our customers,” said Oi’s director for [...]

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