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While smartphones dominate the market and mobile broadband access is consolidated in developed countries, Brazil is still beginning its 3G experience – from carriers and suppliers as well as consumers. …

While carriers and banks discuss mobile payment business models in Brazil, without anyone taking an m-payment leadership role, companies around the globe may launch initiatives that could deeply impact the …

Orange Business Services announced that it plans to increase the capacity of its Latin American network by 10 times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation is …

Claro, the Brazilian operator owned by Carlos Slim’s América Móvil (AMX), announced that it is updating its radio access network to be all Internet Protocol based by the end of …

Panduit, a developer and provider of leading-edge solutions, announced it has expanded its Costa Rica unit to focus on high technology products. The company didn’t reveal how much had invested …

It still will take awhile before mobile payments really take off in Brazil. Since the beginning, carriers and banks haven’t agree on who should lead the process. Therefore, no successful …

Colombia ended June with more than 46.147 million mobile-phone subscribers in mobile telephony, which is a small growth of 1.78% compared with March and corresponds to 100.2 subscribers per 100 …

Broadband in Colombia grew 91.1% between August 2010 and June 2011, according to a report by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. The country jumped from 2.2 million broadband …

Big Blue held its 5th IBM Forum in São Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25. During the event, company said that cloud computing and emergent markets are pillars of …

Cable & Wireless Panama is preparing to launch HSPA+ services next month in an attempt to serve the country’s growing demand for mobile broadband services. The service, which will be …

Speaking at the IBM Forum event in São Paulo, Don Tapscott, author of “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World,” said that due to the prevalence of the Internet, we are …

Emerging markets, such as Brazil, China and India, along with cloud-computing, analytics tools and solutions for a smart planet are IBM Corp.’s four main global initiatives. Big Blue believes that …

IBM Brazil highlighted innovation, collaboration integration and business intelligence during its IBM Forum event in Sao Paulo. “We are becoming more interconnected, with globally integrated enterprises in a smart and …

It has been a competitive battle for the No. 2 position in Brazil’s mobile phone market. While Vivo has maintained its leadership position, the second position has been a long …

Two Brazilian vendors have formed a joint venture for a a cloud-computing company. Benner Systems, the third-largest domestic supplier of business management software, and TBA Group, a leading information technology …

After investing US$ 20 million to launch HSPA+ technology and begin to offer 4G services in Guayaquil, the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, Movistar has announced deployment …

The Brazilian army and Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) announced that they will test LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. The initiative, which includes Motorola’s investment …

The number of broadband access lines in Brazil could more than triple by 2020, and users could see significantly higher speeds if investments of R$ 144.6 billion by 2020 (US$ …

Bolivian’s Control Authority and Social Control of Telecommunications and Transport (ATT) said it will make a ruling on the fees it will impose on the country’s largest carriers beginning next …

By 2014, Ecuador plans to have broadband increase significantly, with small and medium businesses (SMB) and major rural area connnect to broadband, as well as increased residential coverage by 2015, …

Facebook announced the opening of its office in Brazil, under the leadership of Alexandre Hohagen, who formerly was Google Inc.’s (GOOG) country manager for Latin America. Located in São Paulo, …

Mobile operator Claro, which is part of the América Móvel group, has launched HSPA+ services in Panama. The network is currently available in Panama Metro, Colón and along the Alberto …