Business News Americas | January 3, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Chilean telecommunications networks suffered minimum disruption following Sunday’s (Jan 2) magnitude-7.1 earthquake in the south of the country, according to information from telecoms regulator Subtel and operators. No deaths or …
Business News Americas | December 31, 2010 | Patrick Nixon Location-based service software provider Polaris is expecting operator interest in location to soar in Latin America in 2011, driven by its potential use for social networking and friend finding, mobile …
Trading Markets | Jan 03, 2011 | Press Release 3 January 2011 – Norwegian software company Birdstep Technology ASA (OSL: BIRD) said today it has struck a deal to supply its EasyConnect solution to an unnamed mobile operator in Latin …
TeleGeography | December 31, 2010 The private investment promotion agency, ProInversion, has postponed the process to award 25MHz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band which it had hoped would attract a fourth operator to enter the Peruvian mobile market. ProInversion …
Wall Street Journal | January 3, 2011 | Rogerio Jelmayer SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–The Brazilian government will provide a loan worth 300 million Brazilian reals ($177 million) to the state-run telecom operator Telebras SA (TELB4.BR) in order to implement a …
Reuters | January 1, 2010 | James Topham Jan 1 (Reuters) – Japan‘s top mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, is looking to launch a tablet computer that will be produced by LG Electronics and run on software developed by Google, the …
Philippine Business Inquirer | January 3, 2011 | Doris Dumlao MANILA, Philippines—San Miguel Corp. has expanded its presence in the highly competitive telecommunications business with the acquisition of a 40-percent interest in Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc. from a group led …
Reuters |January 3, 2010 | Kelvin Soh and Tarmo Virki HONG KONG/HELSINKI (Reuters) – Some iPhone users in Asia and Europe complained of malfunctioning alarms on the first working day of 2011, even after Apple reassured users that its phones’ …
Reuters | December 28, 2010 | Manunphattr Dhanananphorn BANGKOK, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Thailand’s Central Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday approved a rehabilitation plan for fixed-line phone firm TT&T Pcl involving the restructuring of 26 billion baht ($862 million) in debt. …
Bloomberg | December 21, 2010 | Tim Culpan Rexchip Electronics Corp. suspended shipments to Powerchip Semiconductor Corp., a key customer and major shareholder, because of overdue accounts, the memory-chip maker said in an exchange filing today. Some bills weren’t paid …
Business News Americas | Patrick Nixon | December 30, 2010 Video conferencing technology provider Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) expects to grow above the market average of 30% in Latin America in 2011, but below the 50% rate the company has seen …
Taipei Times | By Lisa Wang | December 28, 2010 Taiwan Mobile Co (台灣大哥大), the nation’s No. 2 telecoms carrier, yesterday unveiled a new digital Internet TV service and other products that utilize convergent telecoms technologies, allowing subscribers to access …
ILS Press Release | December 29, 2010 RESTON, Va. & MEXICO CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction …
Bloomberg | Ketaki Gokhale | December 30, 2010 Tech Mahindra Ltd., partly owned by BT Group Plc., plans to acquire software companies in Latin America to help more than double sales in the next three years. Tech Mahindra aims to …
International Business Times | By Jesse Emspak | December 23, 2010 China Tel will be putting $62 million into selling internet protocol telephony in Peru, via its subsidiary Perusat. The new network will be a WiMAX service, similar to those …
DigiTimes | December 29, 2010 | Marvin Ma, Taipei; Adam Hwang KKBOX Taiwan, an operator of online streaming music services in Taiwan, and in the Hong Kong market through cooperation with Hutchison Telecom, witnesses an increase in its chargeable handset-based …
Lanka Business Online | Jayantha Kovilagodage | December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to delay a move to restrict the number of mobile phone SIM cards individuals can own after requests for more time from …
The Himalayan Times | December 29, 2010 KATHMANDU: Teletalk Pvt Ltd has launched two new Spice mobile phones: M-5262 and M-5170. M5262 is a multi-SIM phone.”Its wide screen gives a fabulous experience and its upgraded fun spice makes it a …
TeleGeography | December 30, 2010 | Thailand Thai cellco True Move, part of domestic integrated telecoms operator True Corp, has announced in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) that it will buy the Bangkok-based CDMA2000 mobile operations …
Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2010 | Rogerio Jelmayer SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–Shares of Universo Online SA (UOLL4.BR), or UOL, Brazil’s largest Internet provider by revenue, were up during Thursday’s morning session on two deals concerning the company. As …
Reuters | Elzio Barreto | December 28, 2010 (Reuters) – Shares of Brazil’s largest mobile phone company Vivo jumped on Tuesday after the company unveiled plans to be integrated into Telefonica’s local fixed-line phone unit. Vivo’s most-traded preferred shares (VIVO4.SA) …
Market Itellisearch | December 28,2010 | Leo Goldman NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) — Telecom Argentina S A options saw heavy call activity today. A total of 114 call and 73 put contracts were traded raising a three month record high …
Adveriser Talk | December 2010 CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18 percent in the number of fixed broadband connections in Venezuela, which represents a penetration of …
Xiong Tong | Xinhuanet News | December 29, 2010 RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Online Christmas sales in Brazil reached 2.2 billion reais (1.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, up 40 percent from the same period last year, …
Jakarta Globe | December 28, 2010 | Shirley Christie XL Axiata, one of Indonesia’s largest cellular operators, plans to spend Rp 4.5 trillion ($500 million) to invest in its growth next year, a top executive said on Tuesday. That investment …
