Americas

While telecom operators in mature markets have used Wi-Fi hot spots to offload 3G data traffic, in Brazil carriers have just started to deploy them. During the TM Forum Latin America Summit held …

“The members of OITA [telecommunications organization of the Americas] will work to find synergies in several telecom areas which we can take advantage of as a team, such as making …

“Cloud computing is a fantastic way to sell more data.” By stressing this definition, the director of innovation at TIM Brazil, Maurício Cascão, defined the telecom operator’s strategy in launching …

It has been a few years since the end of the telecom sector monopoly in Costa Rica. The Superintendent of Telecommunications Sutel says ending the monopoly has led to great …

Haiti is set to receive a major boost with the delivery of US $16 million worth of undersea cable (124.28 miles) which will link the nation to 21 other countries …

Brazilian state-owned telecommunications provider Telebras has signed an agreement with Angola Cables to deploy a 6,000-kilometer submarine cable linking Fortaleza in Brazil to Luanda in Angola. According Telebras’s president Caio …

The board of Brazil’s telecom agency Anatel said regulators will carry out studies on the 700 MHz band regarding the use of this spectrum for digital television (check out 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 arrival …

Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’ need for “as a service” offers …

América Móvil‘s Claro and Telefónica‘s Movistar, new entrants to Costa Rica’s wireless market, have appealed to the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet) to extend their network rollout deadline. …

Emerging markets will drive growth in worldwide smartphone sales in the years ahead, International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a recent survey entitled the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. According …

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communication published for industry comments the draft resolution for the auction of spectrum in the 1.7/2.1 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 1.9 GHz bands. The …

Qualcomm and Telefónica announced an agreement focused on fostering the adoption of 3G and smartphones throughout Latin America. Under terms of the agreement, both companies will collaborate in an effort …

A new report from ComScore states that Latin America’s online population grew faster than in any other global region in 2011, rising 16% to 129.3 million visitors by the end …

Japan’s NEC agreed to acquire Convergys’ information management business for $499 million. NEC said the purchase complements its NetCracker Technology acquisition and solidifies its focus on expanding its reach into …

Despite a lack of commercial launches, Brazil’s mobile virtual network operator  space seems to be cooking. At this point security insurance company Porto Seguro and Virgin Mobile Latin America, are both …

While mobile broadband connections increased 26.2% worldwide in 2011 compared to the previous year, Brazil grew 99.3%. The country ended 2011 with 41.1 million mobile broadband connections, hitting 47.2 million …

HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced the merger of its imaging and printing group (IPG) with its personal systems group (PSG) to create the printing and personal systems group. The company said …

The Copenhagen Metrosubway changed its distributed antenna system (DAS) to better meet the need for wireless coverage in stations and trains with an investment of U.S. $2 million, according to …

Cisco is using its expertise in networks and the software that runs them to help companies manage and unify their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. The holistic approach is based on Cisco …

Brazil’s recently passed Conditioned Access Service law, which was passed last September, or the new Brazilian pay-TV law seemed to diminish market rumors that femtocell adoption would be encouraged by Brazilian Regulation in 2011, due to a regulatory change on femtocell-related taxes.

Brazil ended February with nearly 247.6 million active mobile lines, which represents a mobile teledensity of 126.45 lines per 100 inhabitants, according to a new report from Brazilian telecom agency …

IBM Brazil said it has invested $22.85 million (R$40 million) to launch its first corporate public cloud in the country. According to José Luis Spagnuolo, cloud computing director at IBM …

When mature markets are saturated, emerging regions become great opportunities. In general, emerging countries tend to grow at higher rates due to lower market penetration. German software company SAP has …

A recent report for 4G Americas showed Latin America has 72 commercial deployments of HSPA technology in 31 countries, and of those, 32 have been upgraded to HSPA+ in 20 …