Americas

Virgin Mobile Latin America Inc. (VMLA) closed a second debt funding agreement with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, to fund its operations in Colombia. The debt facility …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the …

Brazilian manufacturer Gradiente said this week it has started to sell a new line of smartphones using Google’s Android operating system under the name “G Gradiente Iphone.” Yes, that’s correct: …

Brazilian NET Serviços, owned by América Móvil, plans to increase its Wi-Fi hotspots from its current 2,400 in 12 cities to 10,000 in 15 cities over the next year. The company has …

Brazilian carrier Oi has launched IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and broadband services with speeds up to 200 Mbps based on its fiber to the home (FTTH) network. When Oi named …

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the entry of the Argentine state-run telecom firm, Arsat, into the mobile telephony segment as an MVNO player. Operating under the name Libre.ar, …

With little fanfare, NII Holdings’ Brazilian operations, Nextel Brazil, has started to offer 3G data plans in a handful of markets across the country. The carrier has started to sell …

Another change has come to the c-level team at NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America. The company announced that Steven Shindler, currently the chairman of …

Claro, the Brazilian unit of América Móvil, became the first carrier to launch LTE services in the country. Claro announced that LTE services are now available in the cities of Recife, Campos …

Ecuador’s national telecommunications regulator, Conatel, has given the public company CNT EP (Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) approval to provide technology services using the next generation of mobile technology.  Be …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. The …

Brazilian telecom infrastructure outsourcing market is heating up. The P2 Brasil fund, a joint venture formed by Pátria Investimentos and Grupo Promon, have announced a new startup, Highline do Brasil, …

Motorola Mobility LLC, owned by Google, will stop manufacturing products in China and Brazil. The company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Singapore-based Flextronics which will acquire Motorola’s manufacturing …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. We all know and care …

The Latin American mobile industry contributed an estimated U.S.$177 billion to the economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay, representing 3.5% of the region’s GDP, …

Sharing revenue in a business to business to consumer (B2B2C) model can be complex from an IT point of view. How is revenue apportioned and how is it measured? In …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Many …

The Brazilian unit of Telefónica, Vivo, has announced the launch of an over-the-top, on-demand video service. Called Vivo Play, it is Telefónica’s latest application for access to entertainment content via …

The Chilean Claro has applied to the Chile’s secretary of telecommunications (Subtel) to become an infrastructure concession operator. A Subtel spokesperson confirmed that Claro had submitted the application and said that the agency …

Peru’s regulatory agency, OSIPTEL, has prohibited telecom operators from using the term “4G” or “Fourth Generation” to market their products. Lenka Zajec, the agency’s corporate communications manager, told RCR Wireless News …

Less than a week after Claro and Bradesco announced their m-payment platform, Telefónica and MasterCard held a press conference yesterday in São Paulo to present a similar solution with the …

Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 15.1% during the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL). In the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. The …

Rumors about a possible initial public offering of Spain-based Telefónica’s Latin American business are back. According to reports, Telefónica is looking to float the Latin American units on the New York Stock Exchange. …

In the beginning of November, Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel — the Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (National Agency of Telecommunications) — established new regulations for companies that provide broadband connections. The …