A new telecommunication bill that would replace the existing one in Bolivia has been approved by Chamber of Deputies’s planning, economic policy and finance committee, but the proposed legislation is already creating controversy among players. The bill still depends on …
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.
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Worldwide set top-box revenue, as a whole, will decline slightly in 2011 over 2010, but Latin America and the Middle East/Africa still show an increase in shipments, according to market intelligence company In-Stat. Despite the general maturation of the market, …
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A number of emerging nations are highlighted in analyst Chetan Sharma’s telecommunications predictions, released earlier this month. Brazil takes fifth place in total number of subscribers, while Mexico takes the 10th spot. China leads in the number of subscribers, but …
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Spending on IT services in Brazil totaled R$ 21.075 billion (US$ 13.3 billion) in 2010, up 9.14% compared to 2009, IDC reported. Businesses continue to adopt technologies including convergence, governance, virtualization and server consolidation, mobility, outsourcing and cloud computing, among …
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Europe’s second-largest phone company Telefónica (TEF) reached an agreement with Spanish labor unions to cut up to 6,500 jobs over the next three years. In its statement, the telecom company explain that the measure aims to ensure the viability and …
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Telecom Italia’s Brazilian mobile unit TIM Participações SA has bought telecommunications infrastructure operator AES Atimus Group from Companhia Brasiliana de Energia for R$ 1.6 billion (US$1.025 billion), in cash. The acquisition represents a significant expansion of TIM’s infrastructure, since it’s …
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The number of Cubans using mobile phones was close to 1 million at the end of 2010, up from 621,000 in 2009 and 330,000 in 2008. The numbers, released by the National Statistics Office (Oficina Nacional de Estatísticas – ONE), …
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Applications for smartphones that facilitate access to social networks is an important driver for increasing mobile devices sales, which has projected to grow more than 73% in Latin America in 2011. A recent study by Frost & Sullivan analyzed the …
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Brazilian carrier Net is expanding its broadband services by installing Wi-Fi hotspots in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The project is still a pilot, but follows an international trend. Some mobile operators are using Wi-Fi in order to offload …
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Mobile value-added sales (VAS) in Mexico generated revenues of US$1 billion for mobile operators during the first quarter of 2011, said the second edition of MAVAM Mexico (Acision Monitor of Mobile Added Value). According to the study, Mexico represents 21% …
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More than 1.36 million Brazilians switched telephone operators but kept their original phone numbersin the second quarter. According to ABR Telecom, the association that manages number portability operations in Brazil, 37.4% of the total referrals were users exchanging fixed-line operators …
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Chile’s Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) said that four companies – Telcordia, Indra,Informática El Corte Inglés and Neustar – presented technical and economic offers to manage Chile’s number portabilitydatabase. The winner will be announced on Aug. 5, and then will have 120 …
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Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 12.7% in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period in 2010. During the first three months of 2011, satellite television continued as the most dynamic growth sector, followed by international long-distance traffic …
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Brazilian mobile operators have seen revenues from value-added services (VAS) grow to 31% in the first quarter of 2011, announced Acision, specialist in mobile data, in its 8th edition of MAVAM Brazil. With this growth, VAS now represents 18% of …
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Of all Latin America countries, Chile is in the top position of Global Innovation Index ranking 2011, just released by Insead. Chile holds the 38th place, followed by Costa Rica (45th), Brazil (47th), Argentina (58th) and Guyana (61th). Check below …
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Ecuadorian mobile operator Alegro PCS, controlled by the national state carrier CNT, may migrate from CDMA to HSPA+ to improve and expand its services. According to the local newspaper El Universo, CNT is expected to invest US$ 74 million and the …
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As part of the country’s National Broadband Plan, four Brazilian carriers said that within 90 days they would start providing 1 megabit per second fixed or mobile Internet access for R$ 35 ($22.50) per month. The carriers are Oi, Telefonica, …
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Chilean Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, confirmed the decision of the administration of President Piñera to speed up the processing and approval of a bill designed to correct the current gaps in the regulations for telecommunications towers …
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The Brazilian government approved the request for PIS/Cofins and IPI tax breaks by six tablet manufacturers: MXT, Positivo, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc., Envision and Aiox. The companies were the first to receive such tax breaks after previous lawsuits …
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Cisco Systems Inc. may have set July 31 as the day it plans to launch its Android-based Cius tablet, but for customers in Brazil, that wait will be a bit longer. The delay is due to pending approval of the device …
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Nearly three-fourths of Peru’s households had a mobile phone at the end of the first quarter, according to the “The Information and Communication Technologies in Households” report produced by The National Statistics Institute. The report found that mobile penetration increased 2.2% …
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Chinese manufacturer ZTE Corp. said it will produce tablets in Brazil. The annoucement was given just after a July 27 meeting that ZTE’s CEO, Hou Weigui, had with the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, in Brasília. During this meeting, Weigui …