BROWSING: Americas

Caribbean 360 | March 14, 2011 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday March 14, 2011 – Digicel is buying out the operations of one of its rivals in Jamaica, while selling two of its businesses to that same competitor. It has signed an agreement with América Móvil to acquire...

Business Week | March 11, 2011 | Associated Press Mexican telecom company American Movil plans to acquire a cell phone company's operations in Honduras and El Salvador. Latin America's largest phone service provider says it has reached a deal to buy 100 percent of Jamaica-based Digicel's...

Advantech Wireless | March 14, 2011 | Press Release Advantech Wireless, a Canadian-based manufacturer of Satellite, RF and Microwave systems has concluded major sales in Brazil and Mexico for its Satellite Communications product line. Products include AMT 75 Modems and redundant switches, SCPC and DVB-RCS...

Fundamentals | March 14, 2011 | Stephanie Baxter Martinez is now responsible for the Radianz platform and BT’s secure messaging services First joined BT in 1999; worked with transport companies and utilities Martinez was BT’s sales and strategy director for Spain and Latin America Previously head of operations...

Business News Americas | March 14, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás The Latin American and Caribbean (CALA) region is forecast to add some 52mn new subscriptions in the 3GPP technologies (GSM-HSPA) segment, 4G Americas director for the region, Erasmo Rojas, told BNamericas. According to Rojas, the...

Tech Digest | March 10, 2011 | ShinyJess Together Intel the chipmaker and Lenovo the PC maker will deploy 158,000 laptops to students in Argentina. What started out as a reference design for affordable laptops for the developing world from Intel, will now be given a proper launch with Lenovo...

Business News Americas | March 10, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás The possible sale of Colombia telecoms operatorETB is very unlikely to happen this year, Yankee Group principal analyst for Latin America, Wally Swain, told BNamericas. According to local press reports, the company's shareholders may decide to...

Telefonica | March 10, 2011 | Press Release Fujitsu and Telefónica sign a Master Service Agreement for the provision and management of mobile services (voice and data) across 15 countries in Europe. 30,000 connections managed through Telefónica’s Central Services worth more than €30m over the contract period (4 years...

Wall Street Journal | March 10, 2011 | Jose De Cordoba MEXICO CITY–Three powerful billionaires, lambasting one another as "monopolists" and "duopolists," filed complaints against each other Wednesday, ratcheting up a battle over Mexico's $35 billion telecommunication and broadcast markets. First, a coalition of 25 cable,...

Telecom Italia | March 10, 2011 | Press Release Telecom Italia announces that it has finalised the acquisition, through its subsidiary Telecom Italia International N.V.,of a 10% stake of Sofora Telecomunicaciones S.A.’s capital – the holding company which controls Telecom Argentina -  from the Argentine...

Fox News | March 9, 2011  | Karla Palomo At 17, Colombian-born Hernán Rincón was working at a bottling plant to support himself while attending college. Today, he heads up all of Microsoft’s business in Latin America and the Caribbean. “One has to work with passion and dedication,” he...

Business News Americas | March 9, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Broadband data management company Tekelec (Nasdaq: TKLC) expects to deploy its policy and charging rules function (PCRF) for an additional six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (CALA) by midyear, Federico Navarro, Tekelec's CALA sales...

Fox News | March 8, 2011 Mexico City –  The typical Mexican Twitter user is a woman living in this capital, according to a survey carried out by marketing firm Mente Digital. Women represent 52 percent of Mexicans with Twitter accounts and they post 2.5 times more...

Wall Street Journal | March 9, 2011 | Anthony Harrup MEXICO CITY—Mexico's largest phone company Telefonos de Mexico SAB said it plans to split into two companies, one of which will serve rural and marginalized areas where competitors haven't invested. The decision by the company controlled by...

Nuance Communications | March 7, 2011 | Press Release Nuance’s Missed Call Messenger Ensures Movistar Subscribers Get the Message Every Time with Transcribed Voice Messages Delivered via SMS Text BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), today announced that its Missed Call Messenger voice-to-text platform now...

Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has closed its acquisition of XtFt Games S/S Ltda, the owner ofsubstantially all the assets of...

Grupo Mercatel | March 9, 2011 | Press Release -- To lower the rates, 9 pending interconnection proceedings with COFETEL must be resolved -- Telmex-Telcel repeatedly violate their concessions: there are currently 17 sanction proceedings against them at the SCT -- Consumers are experiencing high costs and...

Nokia Siemens Networks | March 7, 2011 | Press Release Curacao, Netherlands Antilles – 7 March 2011 Nokia Siemens Networks upgrades and helps manage the Caribbean operator’s optical networks United Telecommunications Services (UTS), a leading telecommunications service provider in the Caribbean, is now offering new, improved data...

Business News Americas | March 7, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Colombian BSS/OSS solutions provider Open Systems is confident it can expand beyond Latin America with its offering that seeks to manage and integrate all different areas of a utility's operations, the company's VP of business...

Sports Business | March 7, 2011 | Matt Cutler A consortium of Embratel and Claro has been appointed as a national sponsor of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Embratel and Claro has acquired exclusive rights within the telecommunications category for the Games, with the sponsorship deal...

Forbes | March 7, 2011 | Agustino Fontevecchia Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is soon to be re-deployed as chairman after founder Larry Page takes the reins in April, gave an interview over the weekend from Buenos Aires where he gave clues as to the search-giant’s new...

Research and Markets | March 7, 2011 | Press Release DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/51dfb5/brazil_telecommuni) has announced the addition of the "Brazil Telecommunications Report Q1 2011" report to their offering. Brazil Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, telecommunication associations, government departments and regulatory...

Bloomberg | March 4, 2011 | Laura Price Brazil Says Raising Rate to 11.75% Part of ‘Adjustment Process’ Brazil’s central bank signaled it will raise the benchmark interest rate for a third straight meeting next month, after pushing borrowing costs yesterday to a two-year high to cool...

Business News Americas | March 4, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás Brazilian telecoms operator Oi (NYSE: TNE) reached a market share of 19% in the São Paulo metropolitan area at end-2010, and about 14% in São Paulo state, company investor relations director Alex Zornig said during a...