Bloomberg | January 7, 2011 | Eduardo Thomson Telefonica Chile SA, Chile’s largest telephone company, plans to invest $700 million this year, Diario Financiero said. The company plans to invest a significant portion of that amount in broadband and fiber …
Reuters | January 7, 2011 | Alex Leff Jan 7 (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s telecoms regulator on Friday awarded licenses to Spain’s Telefonica and Mexico‘s America Movil to become the first private firms to provide mobile service in the country’s …
iBasis | January 10, 2011 | Press Release IP-Interconnect Enables Panama’s Second-Largest Carrier to Bring High Quality, Low Cost International Calling to Customers BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iBasis, a KPN company, today announced that Panama’s second-largest telecommunications carrier, Telefónica Moviles Panama, S.A. …
CNET | January 10, 2011 | Don Reisinger Research In Motion will block pornography accessed through its smartphones in Indonesia. The company announced today that it will develop a “prompt, compliant filtering solution” for Indonesia BlackBerry users by the country’s …
Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Tim Culpan HTC Corp., the world’s largest maker of handsets using Google Inc. Android and Microsoft Corp. Windows operating systems, more than doubled profit after new models spurred sales to a record. Fourth-quarter net …
The Broadband Forum | January 6, 2011 | Press Release China and India report second best quarters ever and developing broadband markets show over 20% growth 3Q2010 ATLANTA, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Year on year growth rates of 6.7% …
Sydney Morning Herald | January 7, 2011 | AAP The head of the government funded company charged with responsibility for building the national broadband network says discussions with Telstra are continuing. NBN co chief executive Mike Quigley said the company …
Sydney Morning Herald | January 10, 2010 | Lucy Battersby THE privacy commissioner will investigate the way Vodafone handles customer data after reports that private information was easily accessible to outsiders. Vodafone is looking for the people who breached its …
TeleGeography | January 7, 2011 According to an unconfirmed report from Brazilian newspaper Estadao, the country’s state-owned telecoms company Telebras has seen its proposed BRL1 billion (USD595 million) budget for the National Broadband Plan (PNBL) slashed to just BRL590 million. …
Business News Americas | January 6, 2011 | Patrick Nixon The number of mobile phone antenna towers that are shared or leased to third parties in Latin America could expand at a 20% CAGR from 2010-15, reaching 49,000, ABI Research …
Trading Markets | January 7, 2011 | Press Release Dublin, Jan 07, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/993177/paraguay_governme) has announced the addition of the “Paraguay: Government Decree Improves Competitive Landscape for Mobile Services” report to their offering. …
Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Crayton Harrison America Movil SAB, billionaire Carlos Slim’s Latin American wireless carrier, will raffle debit cards instead of puppies to Colombian customers after it received criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. …
PR Newswire | January 6, 2011 | Press Release CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Due to low penetration rates, an expanding economy, deploying 3G networks, and declining smartphone prices, mobile data revenue is expected to triple over the …
Malaysia Star | January 7, 2011 PETALING JAYA: Telekom Malaysia Bhd informed Bursa Malaysia yesterday, barring unforeseen circumstances, and based on the terms of reference of the Board Sub-Committee (BSC) of the Board Audit Committee, the internal investigation on the …
Trading Markets | Jan 05, 2011 | Press Release Merrill Lynch, the investment banking arm of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC | PowerRating), has been appointed by Indonesian diversified group Lippo (JAK:LPKR) as advisor on a potential divestment of its …
The China Post | January 6, 2011 TAIPEI, Taiwan — The topic of Taiwan and China jointly building an undersea communication cable was the center of a heated debate during a briefing session before the Communications Committee of the Legislative …
VietNamNet | January 3, 2011 Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunication, Tran Duc Lai, cautioned that the telecom market will cool down in 2011 as the number of subscribers has been saturated. The telecom market will cool down in 2011 …
The China Post | January 7, 2011 The China Post news staff — Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s leading operator, is planning to phase out long-distance calls and create a system in which calls made to anywhere in Taiwan are charged at …
Business News Americas | January 6, 2010 | Christian Molinari Sao Paulo is the Latin American city that is most-advanced in introducing mathematical models and predictive analytics technologies to provide commuters with the best routes for daily travel, the head …
January 6 2011 – 1:56 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News American Tower Corp. (AMT) CEO Jim Taiclet said the company would continue its plan to buy and build tower assets internationally and domestically in 2011, as …
Divitel | January 1, 2011 | Press Release January 1th 2011, Following on from the foreign branches launched earlier in Portugal and Germany, Divitel has now opened a branch in Curacao. As part of our ‘Think Global, Act Local’ strategy, …
Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Thomas Black Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission is studying holding an auction to create two new national television networks in digital format, the Mexico City daily Reforma reported. Rafael del Villar, a commissioner for the …
Intrinsyc | January 5, 2011 | Press Release Collaboration to Bring Navigation and Location Based Services to Latin America Markets VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and SAO PAULO, BRAZIL–(Marketwire – Jan. 5, 2011) – Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX:ICS) and Movix, Empresa …
The Himalayan Times | January 6, 2011 AGENCIES KATHMANDU: ZTE, a provider of telecommunications equipment and network offerings, has launched 1,000th base station for Ncell. The stations are based on ZTE’s green energy Base Transceiver Station (BTS) offering and form …
Bernama | January 5, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (Bernama) — Yes, the fastest mobile Internet service with voice, aims to bring its campus-wide 4G network, Yes 4G, to all public universities and selected private institutions of higher learning in …
