BROWSING: Americas

Bloomberg | March 29, 2011 | Crayton Harrison and Anabela Reis Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (PTC) bought 25.3 percent of Brazilian carrier Telemar Norte Leste SA (TMAR5) for 8.32 billion reais ($5 billion), getting a bigger stake than Portugal’s largest phone company had originally planned to buy. The stake...

February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...

Business News Americas | March 29, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Latin America is seeing explosive growth in its online population with social networks championing other communication mediums, while in the areas of video usage and online banking, the region still has a lot of room...

Gilat | March 28, 2011 | Press Release Gilat today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gilat to Home Peru S.A., has been awarded a new contract by Peru's Agency for Promotion of Private Investment (ProInversion) to provide Internet access and telephony services throughout the...

Living in Peru | March 28, 2011 According to a new technical study done by Peru’s nacional statistics agency, “Information and Communication Technology in Homes, October-December 2010,” 27.1 percent of the country’s homes have cable television service, representing a 2.3 percentage point increase since 2009. By...

Business Week | March 28, 2011 | AP Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Mexican unit said Monday that it signed a $100 million technology outsourcing services contract with Coca-Cola FEMSA, the Coke bottler in Mexico. The five-year agreement will support Coca-Cola FEMSA's Latin American business. Hewlett-Packard Mexico S. de...

Acision | March 30, 2011 | Press Release Reading, United Kingdom, 03/30/2011 - Acision announced the launch of its seventh edition of MAVAM – The Acision Mobile VAS Monitor – which reveals a significant increase in Brazilian wireless operator revenues driven by messaging and other mobile...

Telefonica | March 28, 2011 | Press Release Telefonica and Microsoft Bring BlueVia to .NET Framework Developers Alliance extends BlueVia’s reach, providing Microsoft’s 6 million-strong .NET Framework developer community with easy access to Telefonica’s network capabilities for the creation of new communications-enabled applications. LONDON — 28 March, 2011 —...

GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) -  GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (BOVESPA: TNLP3) (BOVESPA: TNLP4) (BOVESPA: TMAR3)...

ComunIP | March 25, 2011 | Press Blog After almost three months of negotiations, Takenet announced the acquisition of ComunIP. Takenet is a pioneer in Value Added Services market in Brazil, which provides integration services, content delivery, creation and management of mobile portals and mobile...

Bloomberg | March 26, 2011 | Manuel Baigorri Telefonica SA (TEF) said the boards of Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (TLPP3), its fixed-line unit in Brazil known as Telesp, and Vivo Participacoes SA (VIVO4), the country’s biggest wireless company, agreed that all of Vivo shares will be...

TeleGeography | March 28, 2011 Mexican telecoms group America Movil (AM) has decided to rebrand fixed broadband unit Telmex Ecuador under the Claro moniker used across AM’s Latin American operations, reports Telecompaper. The decision follows Telmex Ecuador’s sister cellco Conecel dropping its well-established Porta brand...

TeleGeography | March 25, 2011 Brazil’s antitrust regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or Cade) approved on Wednesday, without limitation, Vivendi’s acquisition of GVT Holding, controller of local telco Global Village Telecom (GVT). The French telecoms and entertainment group originally...

Business News Americas | March 25, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski A need to understand market particularities make Ecuador the most likely country for a new SAP(NYSE: SAP) subsidiary, the company's sales vice president for Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, Leonel Graff, told BNamericas. SAP currently maintains...

The Financial | March 22, 2011 The FINANCIAL -- Opera Software announced on March 22 that the Opera Mini browser is now available on a second Android device offered exclusively by Nextel Brazil, the Motorola i886. NII Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:NIHD), one of the leading providers of...

Fox News | March 24, 2011 Anyone who’s ever used an English-language laptop to type in Spanish knows it can be a big drag. Clicking the ALT key for accents, hunting down punctuation, figuring out how to regain your ‘at’ symbol—it can be enough to...

Fox News | March 24, 2011 Brasilia –  Spanish telecom giant Telefonica plans to invest 24.3 billion reais (some $14.7 billion) in Brazil between 2011 and 2014, CEO Cesar Alierta told Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. That amount represents a 52 percent increase over the previous four...

BNAmericas | March 24, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski Brazil's federal government could focus on generating favorable import-export tax conditions and boosting financing to effectively drive local IT production, ICT consultancy Gartner vice president Donald Feinberg told BNamericas. This week, the country's government announced plans to spur...

BNAmericas | March 24, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Costa Rica is likely to reach mobile penetration of 100% in three years, boosted by the entrance of new competitors América Móvil (NYSE: AMX) and Telefónica, which won licenses for the newly liberalized market this year, Maryleana...

SKN Vibes | March 23, 2011 BASSETERRE St. Kitts, March 23rd, 2011 (SKNIS) - Government’s effort to provide greater e-services and boost efficiency within the public sector is being assisted by a team from the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) who are undertaking a three month...

Wall Street Journal | March 23, 2011 | Anthony Harrup Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's largest mobile phone operator, America Movil SAB (AMX, AMX.MX) unit Telcel, said Wednesday that it has filed complaints with the country's antitrust regulator against broadcasters Grupo Televisa SAB...

BNAmericas | March 23, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Latin American telcos will help ensure that satellite surpasses cable by 2015 in terms of high definition pay TV subscribers, but the long-term migration path for telcos is still IPTV, Carlos Blanco, analyst with Argentine telecoms consultancy...

Telcordia | March 22, 2011 | Press Release Telcordia expands its Business and Solutions Development center for the Communications Sector in the CALA region ORLANDO, Fla., March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CTIA WIRELESS 2011 -- Telcordia (Booth 2407), a global leader in the development of mobile,...

Appia | March 23, 2011 | Press Release Store Offers Free and Paid Mobile Apps to Over 64 Million Subscribers Telcel, the largest mobile operator in Mexico, today announces the availability of the Telcel Mobile Application Store, Ideas APPSTORE, powered by Appia. The store provides Telcel...