Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers| December 9, 2010 Cartagena, Colombia… Rodrigo de la Parra, the Director General of Prospective Regulation of Mexico’s Federal Commission of Telecommunications (Cofetel) has been named as ICANN’s new Latin American representative. De la Parra has …
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Bolivia Agrees To Buy $300 Million Communications Satellite From China
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaBy Shane Romig | Published December 13, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- The Bolivian government has signed a contract with China Great Wall Industries Corporation, or Cgwic, to purchase a $300 million communications satellite, Bolivia’s state news agency ABI …
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SmarTrend Watching for Potential Pullback in Shares of America Movil After 0.35% Gain (AMX)
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaWritten on Tue, 12/14/2010 – 2:26am By Sarah Hashim-Waris America Movil (NYSE:AMX) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $56.80 to a high of $57.33. Yesterday, the shares gained 0.35%, which took the trading range above the …
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By Anthony Esposito | Published December 14, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- There are more cell phones in Chile than there are people, the government’s INE statistics institute said Tuesday. With 19.4 million cell phones distributed across the Andean …
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For mobile operators, vendors and their customers, these are the best of times and the worst of times. We all live and breathe in an always-on, wireless broadband connected world where fast is fine, more is good, faster is better …
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Digicel to Challenge Movistar's Mobile Market Position in Panama, Pyramid Finds
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — By 2015, new entrants Claro and Digicel are expected to increase their mobile phone market share in Panama to 11.7 percent and 21.3 percent, respectively, helping to boost competition levels in the market still dominated by C&W …
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Pyramid Research | Jose Magana | December 9, 2010 Telecom operators, particularly in emerging countries, are scratching their heads about how to leverage their strong positionto participate in the family remittance market. In our recent Insider Mobile Remittances: Network Operators Look to Cash In …
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Press Release Cisco SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec 9, 2010 – Cisco today presented the 14th edition of the Cisco® Broadband Barometer, a study conducted by IDC. The study shows that the total broadband market in Brazil reached 16.2 million connections …
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Checking out the eBay of Latin America, with Tim Seymour, Fast Money trader. Video via CNBC
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December 13 2010 – 12:06 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News Zacks Investment Research late last week upgraded its long-term recommendation on Latin American mobile operator America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. (AMX) from “underperform” to “neutral” citing …
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Wavion and Vipitel Partner to Provide High Speed Internet Access for the State of Aguascalientes, Mexico
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaMonday December 13, 2010 – 10:19 AM EST | Business Wire News Release Wavion™, a technology leader in metro and rural Wi-Fi with a new generation of Beamforming Wi-Fi base stations, and Vipitel, a wireless service provider in Mexico, announced …
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O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. Signs Commercial Lease for the Establishment of Earthcom Service Inc.'s Presence in Higuey, Capital City of the Eastern Province of La Altagracia, in the Dominican Republic
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaMonday November 22, 2010 – 09:58 AM EST | Released By O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. ST. AUGUSTINE, FL — (Marketwire) — 11/22/10 — O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: OTOW) announces that the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Earthcom Service Inc., has entered into a …
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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Congratulates Clients Telefonica, Henderson Global Investors and Wolfson Microelectronics on ifsProShare Awards
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaThursday December 09, 2010 – 10:36 AM EST | Released By Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is pleased to announce that three of its stock plan clients were awarded prestigious ifsProShare Awards at the 2010 awards ceremony in …
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Infrastructure limitations muzzle alliances – Orange Business Services – Regional
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaBy Abigail Wilkinson | Business News Americas | Thursday, December 9, 2010 French enterprise communication solutions company Orange Business Services cannot be choosy about partners in Latin America because of limited connectivity infrastructure in the region, according to the company’s CEO …
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NP a game changer for manufacturers as well as operators – Samsung – Chile
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaBy Patrick Nixon | Business News Americas The introduction of number portability (NP) in Chile in mid 2011 will oblige not only operators to up their game to retain customers but also device suppliers to re-orient their product portfolio to …
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Industry Leaders from North America and LATAM Address Critical Business Issues and Opportunities for Market of Nearly 1 Billion
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaNEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — A Focus on Context, Ubiquity, Privacy and Security Takes Center Stage at Inaugural MEF Americas Event Held earlier this month, MEF Americas 2010: Mobile Content & Commerce connected over 200 North …
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By Juan Pedro Tomás | Business News America Bolivian telecoms cooperative Cotel expects to deploy a fixed wireless network during 2011, Cotel planning manager Delfin Mejia told BNamericas. Cotel is in talks with Korean firm Seah for this project, Mejia said, but …
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Acision launches its Mobile Value Added Services (VAS) Monitor in Mexico and reveals VAS usage represents 23% of local operators revenues
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaAcision Press Release | 09 December 2010 Following the success of the Acision Mobile VAS Monitor (MAVAM) in Brazil, Acision, a world leader in mobile data, today announces the launch of its first edition for Latin America. MAVAM LATAM, which …
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The Gleaner Jamaica | Sunday December 12, 2010 LIME Jamaica, in an exclusive launch last Thursday that was open only to the invited, became the first to offer mobile TV to Jamaica and the Caribbean. The service will roll out …
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Their technology drives our lives and our businesses. These super execs have changed the world and continue to do so You wake up in the morning and one of the first things you do is pick up your Smartphone to …
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TeleGeography | Monday, 13 December 2010 Serbia’s Ministry of Finance has announced that seven companies have applied to participate in a tender for the 51% stake in Telekom Srbija being sold by the government. The seven are Deutsche Telekom, France …
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NTT Press Release: NEW YORK, Nov 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — NTT America, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, announced today its participation in the 2nd annual …
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TeleGeorgraphy | December 2010 Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel has rejected petitions to allow existing mobile operators to participate in the upcoming auction of H Band 3G mobile spectrum, BNamericas reports. In early November this year, Telemar Norte Leste (Telemar, or …
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America Movil CFO Sees 50 Million Potential Mexico Mobile Banking Users
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaPeter Elstrom| Bloomberg America Movil, Latin America’s largest wireless carrier, will offer financial services to about 50 million people in Mexico who have mobile phones and no bank accounts, Chief Financial OfficerCarlos Garcia Moreno said. That population is part of an …
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Consumers in Brazil and Argentina Most Likely to Make Purchases Online, Females More Likely than Males to Buy Online in Latin America
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyacomScore | Press Release comScore Releases Study on Latin American E-Commerce Landscape Bogotá, Colombia, December 1, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results from a study of the e-commerce landscape in …