BROWSING: Americas

April 12 2011 - 10:00 am ET | Bob Moser | RCR Wireless News RIO DE JANEIRO – Public safety communication networks will be targeted as an easily applicable market for LTE in the coming year, with major providers already working together in select U.S....

April 12 2011 - 11:39 am ET | Sylvie Barak | RCR Wireless News RIO DE JANEIRO – Mike Roberts, principal analyst and head of Americas for Informa described Brazil as the “strongest mobile broadband market in the region,” during his opening keynote at the...

Nokia Siemens | April 12, 2011 | Press Release Espoo, Finland – April 12, 2011 Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Eduardo Araujo to lead its business in Latin America. Araujo, a Brazilian national, joins the company from Ingram Micro Corporation where he was president of its...

April 12 2011 - 1:35 pm ET | Bob Moser | RCR Wireless News RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's major wireless providers are sharing the burden of building the backbone of a national network before the country hosts international sporting events in 2014 and 2016....

Telefónica presents ON THE SPOT SERVICES, an evolution of the music wire that has its own technological platform, with a musical base of over six million songs and ability to operate international markets. ON THE SPOT SERVICES creates a link to enhance communication between...

Reuters | April 7, 2011 | Andre Grenon (Reuters) - Telmex, the telecommunications giant controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it won a contract to provide the platform for wireless carrier Nextel's mobile broadband services. Telmex, which controls 80 percent of Mexico's fixed phone lines,...

KVH | April 6, 2011 | Press Release A combination of the fully licensed mini-VSAT Broadband service, a new Brazilian subsidiary, and in-country partners position KVH to support mariners throughout the growing Brazilian maritime market MIDDLETOWN, RI – As part of an ongoing effort to offer...

Reuters | April 4, 2011 | Cyntia Barrera Diaz (Reuters) - America Movil expects to double its pay television customers in Latin America to 22 million by the end of 2013, according to projections from a company source with direct knowledge of the growth outlook. The source...

Business News Americas | April 6, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás Brazilian telecoms operator Intelig is focusing on the government segment to acquire new customers for its corporate services, local mobile telephony operator TIM (NYSE: TSU) top clients director Leonardo Queiroz told BNamericas. "The Brazilian government segment is very...

April 7 2011 - 1:52 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News Mexican media conglomerate Televisa S.A. (TV) moved forward with a $1.6 billion investment into wireless operator Group Iusacell S.A. de C.V. that will allow Televisa to add mobile services to its...

VTR | April 5, 2011 | Press Release April 5, 2011 .- The telecommunications company VTR joined the Association of Mobile Telephony, ATELMO, composed of the major mobile companies in Chile. VTR's decision to join was born out of their interest to participate in the agenda...

Mobile Broadband LatAm | April 5, 2011 | Press Release MTN to share its lessons from the World Cup The largest Latin American mobile network operators and global high-tech giants are meeting in Rio de Janeiro in April to strategize on how best to take advantage...

April 6 2011 - 12:43 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News Mexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa S.A. (TV) said it was currently in talks with mobile operator Group Iusacell S.A. de C.V. regarding a potential partnership that could see Televisa add a...

TeleGeography | April 4, 2011 Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa has revealed that it will buy the remaining shares it does not hold in local triple-play provider Cablemas for approximately MXN4.7 billion (USD397 million), according to the Wall Street Journal. Televisa has said that it...

RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak *Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the rebuilding of the impoverished country’s telecom infrastructure over a year after the quake. Barak and Speir are exploring how mobile...

Telefonica | April 4, 2011 | Press Release Potential: The ICT industry is an innovative growth sector creating an array of new opportunities for other sectors and industries • New habits: The coming years will see a double-digit increase in the number of users of social...

Financial Times | April 1, 2011 | Naomi Mapstone It costs about 30 cents to check your email in Peru if you duck into one of thousands of grimy internet cafés that also offer photocopying, scanning, printing and international phone calls. In a country with low...

Daily News Pulse | April 1, 2011 | Adriana Barnes The company needs huge cash in order to support their massive expansion plans as well as to roll out its 3G wireless network. Moreover, the company has projected that capital expenditure for 2011 will be...

Telefonica | March 31, 2011 | Press Release • Telefónica to launch the first NFC “real” experience in Europe • The project is being carried out with the assistance of Autogrill, Bankinter, BBVA, G&D, La Caixa, Oberthur, Samsung, Sermepa and Visa • The number of...

Telefonica | March 31, 2011 | Press Video Telefonica demonstrates their NFC mobile payment solution Video via Youtube

American Tower | March 21, 2011 | Press Release BOSTON, Mar 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT)today released information about its business in light of AT&T's contemplated acquisition of ...

TechFaith | March 31, 2011 | Press Release BEIJING, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited (Nasdaq: CNTF) ("TechFaith" or the "Company") today announced it will expand shipments of its proprietary motion gaming mobile phone into Latin...

Capital.gr | March 31, 2011 | Diana Kinch RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- Spanish telecoms company Telefonica SA (TEF, TEF.MC) said it has canceled its Brazilian Depositary Receipts, or BDRs, program. Telefonica has also canceled its registration with Brazil's securities commission CVM as a share-issuing foreign company...

DailyMotion | March 31, 2011 | Press Release Paris/Sao Paolo, March 31st – Dailymotion, one of the largest video site in the world, and Abril Midia, the leading media firm in Brazil announce an exclusive partnership in the brazilian market. Abril.com the internet division of the media group will...