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Contracts: Rio Olympics chooses Embratel and Claro; HBO and Motorola; and more

Embratel and Claro

Brazil: With the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to be a national sponsor, exclusively in the Telecommunication Services categories. Thus, Embratel and Claro will be able to use the right of associating their brand to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the Brazilian Olympic Committee beginning in March 2011.

Value: Undisclosed

Motorola Mobility Inc.

United States: With Home Box Office (HBO) Latin America to upgrade its satellite network using MPEG-4 video encoding . The solution compresses, encrypts, modulates, and receives the high definition signals within a single integrated transmission system. Read more here.

Value: Undisclosed

Synchronica

Ecuador: With Porta Ecuador (America Movil in Ecuador) to launch Messenger Porta, a mobile instant messaging service based on and powered by Synchronica’s hosted instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) platform. Read more here.

Value: Undisclosed

Central Fibre Consortium

New Zealand: With Crown Fibre Holdings, New Zealand’s agency in charge of managing the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative, to provide fibre infrastructure to 10 regional centres in the North Island.

Value: UFB initiative is worth $972.4 million

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