Wall Street Journal | December 31, 2010 | Owen Fletcher and Aaron Back
BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) said Friday it will start large-scale testing of a domestically developed fourth-generation mobile communications technology, having received approval from regulators.
China Mobile, having developed a local Chinese...
Adveriser Talk | December 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18 percent in the number of fixed broadband connections in Venezuela, which represents a penetration of 5.2 per 100 inhabitants, during...
Regional wireless provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) said it has closed on its acquisition of the remaining 15% and controlling “limited liability” interest in Royal Street Communications L.L.C.As a result of the acquisition, Royal has been renamed MetroPCS Networks L.L.C. and is now a...
OFTA |Press Release | December 21, 2010
The Office of the Telecommunications Authority ("OFTA") today (21 December 2010) welcomes the efforts of the Communications Association of Hong Kong ("CAHK") in promulgating an Industry Code of Practice for Telecommunications Service Contracts (the "Industry Code") for adoption...
Trading Markets | Tue. December 21, 2010
BEIJING, Dec 21, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) --
On December 20, 2010, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was said to visit Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU | PowerRating) and had lunch together with Robin Li, CEO of the...
Reuters | Daniel Wallis | Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:49pm EST
(Reuters) - Venezuela's parliament approved tighter regulation of the Internet on Monday in the latest of a package of laws to entrench President Hugo Chavez's...
TeleGeography | Thailand | Monday December 20, 2010
A review committee appointed by Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Minister Juti Krairiksh has highlighted various ‘illegal’ amendments to the Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) concessions issued to mobile operators AIS, DTAC and True Move by state-owned telcos TOT and...
Monday, December 20, 2010| By Juan Pedro Tomás | Business News Americas
Peru's private investment promotion agency,ProInversion, expects to award 25 MHz of spectrum in the 1,900 MHz band on December 23 - the same date that technical and economic offers are to be opened, ProInversion...
Marketwire | Elephant Talk Press Release | Dec 20, 2010 10:15 ET
SCHIPHOL, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - December 20, 2010) - Elephant Talk Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: ETAK) (http://www.elephanttalk.com/) anticipates that new regulations from Brazil's telecom regulator, Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (Anatel), could create opportunities for Elephant Talk and a...
NextTVLATAM News Release | Friday, December 17 2010
The Chilean Government presented a single seal that will certify which receivers are suitable for Digital TV under ISDB-T. The objective is aimed at "making the Chilean TV set market transparent and providing the population with proper...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Interview with 4G Americas' Erasmo Rojas. He discusses the future of telecom in Latin America and its growing market.
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Bloomberg | By Jose Orozco | Dec 14, 2010 3:22 PM CT
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Telefonica SA’s Venezuelan mobile-phone operator, Movistar Venezuela, and Digitel GSM to cooperate with government efforts to assist 130,000 people displaced by heavy rains or face expropriation.
“The enabling law will obligate them,...
Bloomberg | By Iuri Dantas and Matthew Bristow | Dec 16, 2010 6:29 AM CT
Brazil’s decision this month to raise banks’ reserve requirements to slow credit growth may “precede” conventional monetary policy action, the central bank said.
The central bank, in the minutes of the Dec. 7-8...
Colombia Reports | MANUELA KUEHR
Colombia's State Council on Wednesday suspended the implementation of the European terrestrial digital TV standard DVB-T due to a "procedural error," reports Semana.
The National Television Commission board decided to adopt European digital TV standards, but according to the high court, the...
RapidTV News | Iñaki Ferreras | 12-16-2010
The Colombian government has introduced new measures to impose a tax on pay-TV operators which will be operational from 1 January 2011.
From that date, cable TV, DTH and the rest of Colombian pay-TV operators will have to pay 7%...
By Rogerio Jelmayer and Paulo Winterstein | Published December 15, 2010 | Dow Jones Newswires
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Telefonica SA (TEF, TEF.MC) wants to almost triple the number of Brazilian cities that have access to its third-generation, or 3G, service by the end of next year. The...
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ | CARACAS, VENEZUELA
President Hugo Chavez's government is proposing to impose broadcast-type regulations on the Internet with a law that would ban messages deemed to provoke panic or show disrespect for public authorities.
The proposed "Social Responsability Law" includes electronic media along with radio...
December 15, 2010 | Zacks
NII Holdings Inc. (NIHD - Analyst Report), a small-sized wireless services provider in several Latin American markets received yet another shot in its arm. Yesterday, the company announced that it has won wireless licenses in Brazil, which were recently auctioned by...
By Alex Leff | SAN JOSE, Costa Rica | Reuters
* First bids to end Costa Rica state-run telecom monopoly
* Mexico's America Movil and Spain's Telefonica in running
Mexico's America Movil and Spain's Telefonica placed bids on Tuesday to offer cell phone service in Costa Rica, pushing the...
By Crayton Harrison | Dec 6, 2010 10:33 AM CT
Telefonos de Mexico SAB should face sanctions for failing to comply with phone interconnection rules, Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission told the nation’s ministry of communications and transportation, Reforma newspaper reported today.
Phone carriers Telefonica SA, Axtel SAB and...
Zacks |Todd Bunton |Dec. 14 2010 - 12:27 pm
By the end of 2011, all new vehicles in Brazil will be required to have a GPS-based tracking system installed. This may not be good news for car thieves in São Paulo, but Ituran Location & Control Ltd. (ITRN...
Bloomberg | By Carla Simoes and Crayton Harrison | Dec 14, 2010 11:37 AM CT
NII Holdings Inc., operator of the Nextel brand in Latin America, paid 1.21 billion reais ($715 million) in a Brazilian government auction to gain airwaves to compete with Telefonica SA andAmerica Movil...
Interview with ICANN's CEO & President, Rod Beckstrom, and Chairman of the Board, Peter Dengate Thrush, following the close of ICANN 39 in Cartagena, Colombia.
ICANN 39 has concluded with strong commitment from the ICANN Board to the multi-stakeholder model.
Throughout the Cartagena meeting, supporting organizations...
