Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. When Netflix launched in Latin America back in 2011, the legacy broadband infrastructure was a major concern. The regional operators feared the pressure of rising video [...]

Over the last weeks, we saw multiple announcements around mobile wallets: o Partnerships between Visa and Samsung announced at the 3GSM in Barcelona o Introduction of MasterPass by MasterCard o Launch of Isis All these announcements are interesting and represent good steps towards the construction of a real mobile payment ecosystems. However, we do not [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Telecom incumbents and cable operators are battling for fixed broadband dominance in Latin American markets such as in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Important cable players [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. The Peruvian telecommunications market has shown significant growth during the last few years. Peru’s economy is in the developing stage, leveraging international and local investments from companies [...]

(This is part one of a two-part article series on the technical, operational and revenue impacts of deploying Wi-Fi offload to meet mobile data demand.) Data hungry consumers, powerful mobile devices and rich media applications are creating a data deluge. Some reports estimate mobile data traffic will grow 1,200% by 2017. Mobile operators are successfully [...]

Nextel’s strategy is to migrate its Latin American operations from iDEN to 3G to become more competitive. Apart from Argentina, the operator has acquired 3G spectrum in all the countries where it operates, investing over $750 million in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

Consumers who first experienced the Internet through smartphones and tablets expect to synch and switch devices with consistency of experience, and this creates opportunities for carriers to mobilize the cloud and create ways for users to store, synch and share their mobile lifestyles. This is one of several key takeaways shared by Jefferson Wang in [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Latin American mobile markets have experienced incredible growth in the past 10 years. The majority of countries went through privatization processes during the 1990s, and in the [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. It is certain that Near Field Communications (NFC) will become the standard for the replacement of credit cards, car keys, cards used in public transport, cards [...]

In thinking about what I expect from this year’s edition of Mobile World Congress, I don’t really have to look much further than my previous experience. I will eat lots of ham sandwiches