2012

Chile’s Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) announced that carriers paid about $12.26 million to buy licenses to deploy LTE across the country. Subtel made 120 megahertz in the 2.6 GHz band available for bidding. América Móvil’s Chilean unit, Claro; Telefónica’s local wireless operator, Movistar, and …

The municipal-owned company Empresas Municipales de Cali (Emcali) has been granted the concession and license to provide subscription TV service. With this license, Emcali will join the so-called “triple play” service market, which includes telephony, broadband and subscription television under …

MIAMI — During last week’s NetEvents Americas Press & Summit, two North American vendors said that the recent decision by Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel to suspend three wireless carriers from selling new services—TIM Brasil, Oi and Claro—represents a sales opportunity for them. …

In the last several weeks, two leading mobile operating system vendors moved into the mobile payments space. Apple announced its new mobile wallet Passbook that will debut with iOS 6 this fall.

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While TIM Brasil has been facing a challenging time since Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel suspended the company from selling mobile services in 19 states, Franco Bernabè, the CEO of Telecom Italia, TIM’s parent company,  visited Brazil last week to speak with the communications …

After Spain-based Telefónica released its financial results and canceled dividends, its biggest competitor in the Latin American market, América Móvil, (AMX) reported a 45.5% drop in second-quarter net income compared to 1Q211. América Móvil reported $1.001 million (13.252 million Mexican pesos) in the …

Although mobile virtual network operators were launched in Latin America about four years ago, they have become hot topics again since Brazil released new regulations, and Virgin Mobile announced—and actually launched—operations in the region. Follow RCR Wireless News —Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe …

MIAMI — “After the classical network and the Internet, we need a third network that combines the best of both PSTN and the Internet,” said Nan Chen, the president of Metro Ethernet Forum, during the opening keynote address at the NetEvents Americas …

MIAMI – Software-defined networking (SDN) has been around for a while, but its future was as a hot topic during this week’s NetEvents Americas Press & Summit, held in Miami. “This time is different because the problem is very real,” …

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware (NYSE: VMW), announced this week that it will pay $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million in assumed unvested equity awards to acquire Nicira, a software-defined networking (SDN) specialist and provider of network virtualization for open …

As near field communications becomes standard, the NFC retail payments market is expected to exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, more than a seven-fold increase over 2012, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Follow RCR Wireless News—Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to …

One day ahead of schedule, Spanish telecom giant Telefónica reported its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2012. The company also announced that it will cancel payment of all remaining dividends and share buybacks for this …

Peru’s ProInversión, which is an agency tasked with the promotion of private investments in the country, has again postponed the spectrum auction for the provision of public telecommunication services. The new auction date is now set for the middle of …