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#MWC15: CBNL, Ruckus bet on LTE growth to boost operations in Latin America

BARCELONA, Spain — While the expansion of LTE is expected to be a major topic this year in Latin America, vendors who do business with local carriers expect the fourth generation of telecommunications to boost their operations. Two of those companies are Cambridge Broadband Networks and Ruckus Wireless, which spoke with RCR Wireless News during this week’s Mobile World Congress event.

John Naylon, CTO and founder of Cambridge Broadband Networks, disclosed the company’s strategies focusing on Latin America, as well as the company’s role in managing network capacity for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. CBNL said it is tapping into experience learned from previous work for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London and at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Fabian Costallat, regional sales manager for South Cone Region at Ruckus Wireless, talked about the potential for LTE deployments in unlicensed spectrum across the region; the growing importance of Latin America for the company; and how data offloading has become an important role for carriers and end users. Costallat also touched on the results of a data offload project for the World Cup.

“We saw a 30% adoption of Wi-Fi over the total of people present at the World Cup,” Costallat said.

As for the deployment of LTE in unlicensed spectrum, Costallat believes that first deployments and trials will start over the next year.

Editor’s Note: Celistics paid for travel costs to Barcelona.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.