Americas

January 6 2011 – 1:56 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News American Tower Corp. (AMT) CEO Jim Taiclet said the company would continue its plan to buy …

Divitel | January 1, 2011 | Press Release January 1th 2011, Following on from the foreign branches launched earlier in Portugal and Germany, Divitel has now opened a branch in …

Bloomberg | January 6, 2011 | Thomas Black Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission is studying holding an auction to create two new national television networks in digital format, the Mexico City …

Intrinsyc | January 5, 2011 | Press Release Collaboration to Bring Navigation and Location Based Services to Latin America Markets VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and SAO PAULO, BRAZIL–(Marketwire – Jan. 5, …

Gilat Satellite Networks | January 5, 2011 | Press Release Petah Tikva, Israel, 5 January, 2011 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, …

Business News Americas | January 4, 2011 Brazil’s communications ministry (Minicom) has thrown its support behind the development of optical communication systems that aim to reach broadband transmission rates of …

TeleGeography | January 5, 2010 Brazil’s newly appointed communications minister, Paulo Bernardo, used his acceptance speech to announce his intention to reduce the cost of broadband access in the country. …

Business Wire | January 4, 2011 | Press Release PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Truffle Capital, a major European private equity firm, today announced that its portfolio company LeadMedia has acquired MediaFactory, a leading …

4G Americas | January 5, 2011 | Press Release BELLEVUE, Wash. – 4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced that Neville Ray, …

Business News Americas | January 4, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Chilean SMEs and corporations are “eager” to adopt cloud computing, enabling them to see savings in total cost of ownership …

Bloomberg | December 29, 2010 | Andre Soliani Brazilian telecommunications companies will be invited to share with state-owned Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA leadership of the government’s plan to extend broadband Internet …

TechFlash | December 29, 2010 | John Cook Trilogy International Partners, aBellevue company which operates wireless networks in Bolivia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and New Zealand, has raised $44 million …

Business News Americas | December 30, 2010 | Josh Miller Brazilian IT services provider Exceda grew 100% in 2010 and, as the company expands regionally, aims for annual increases of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …