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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Council in Ecuador (Conatel) did not award a new personal communications services (PCS) license to the consortium headed by Andinatel as expected last week. The regional state-owned company was the only participant in the auction …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The third cell-phone operator in Colombia will start cellular telephone service before the end of the year. Colombia M

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Getting into the holiday spirit, Nextel Communications Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. provided gift-wrapped updates on the technology upgrades for their respective networks, as well as time frames and what the industry should expect once the changes are complete. After …

Getting into the holiday spirit, Nextel Communications Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. provided gift-wrapped updates on the technology upgrades for their respective networks, as well as time frames and what the industry should expect once the changes are complete. After …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The two major cell-phone operators in Colombia, which operate on TDMA technology, announced they are migrating their networks to different technologies. In the case of BellSouth, the company will offer services over CDMA 1xRTT, supplied by Ericsson, as …

After talking with several operators from North and South America last week at the CDMA Americas Congress, it seems they have similar to-do lists heading into 2003. As 1x uptake increases, operators are looking to 2003 as the year for …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Chilean branch of Nextel received a hard blow when the 29th Civil Judge of Santiago declared the 18 licenses granted by the government for mobile digital service to be void. The findings of the justice established that …

The wireless industry’s shift from focusing on growth at any expense to an emphasis on growing profitably has been reinforced recently with a number of operators deciding it will take different leadership to guide them through what many expect to …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Last week, a day before the personal communications services (PCS) auction in Ecuador was due to take place, a civil judge in Guayaquil accepted a protection document presented by Conecel, majority owned by Am

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-BellSouth Latin America saw income of US$495 million in the third quarter of 2002, a decrease of 31 percent compared with the same period last year. “Revenues reflected the impacts of currency devaluations, principally in Argentina and Venezuela, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed two separate mobile network contracts in Latin America. The value of the contracts was not released. Ericsson signed a contract to supply GSM/GPRS equipment and services for PCS Digital in Nicaragua for its …

MIAMI-BellSouth Corp. asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida to dismiss Supra Telecom’s bankruptcy filing, saying the company’s recent public statements suggest it is financially solvent. BellSouth claims Supra filed for bankruptcy protection to avoid paying …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Movicom BellSouth was the only operator that presented the prequalification documents to participate in the spectrum auction that will take place on 18 November in Uruguay. As it is, the company will only be interested in acquiring 10 …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Christian Nicolai, Chilean under-secretary for telecommunications, said this year the investments in the telecommunications sector will fall 40 percent in comparison to last year to around US$600 million, of which US$200 million will be allocated to the cellular …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Alvaro Uribe’s Colombian government has decided to postpone the national-level auction of three regional personal communications services (PCS) licences until January and has added to the conditions of the contract, requiring the new operator to operate using 2.5-generation …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Kyocera Wireless entered the Chilean cellular market as a terminal provider for the Smartcom PCS network. Smartcom is the first South American operator outside Brazil to launch a 2.5-generation (2.5G) network using CDMA 1xRTT. At the same time, …

SAN DIEGO-The agenda for the 2002 CDMA Americas Congress, to be held December 3-5, 2002, in San Diego, has been released. Confirmed speakers include Ralph de la Vega, president of BellSouth Latin America; Pascal Debon, president of wireless networks for …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After a year of successive postponements, the Regulatory Unit of the Uruguayan Communications Services (URSEC) announced that on 18 November, there will be an auction of personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses at 1800, 1900 and …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A strong discussion has started in Argentina about what platforms will prevail in Latin America. On the one hand, the 3G Americas organization maintains that GSM will be the most popular mobile technology in Latin America by 2006, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Ecuadorian National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) has decided to delay the auction of a national personal communications services (PCS) license, which was supposed to take place on 26 September, to 8 November. Along with this decision, Conatel also …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Colombian Communications Ministry announced that with the increase of 320,000 new cellular phone users in the second quarter of this year, the current market of cell-phone owners has reached 3.87 million. Billed airtime passed 1.41 billion minutes …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson announced it will supply BellSouth’s Panama affiliate with a cdma2000 1x overlay for the operator’s nationwide TDMA network, including network equipment, services and Sony Ericsson handsets. The news closely follows Ericsson’s announcement earlier this week it will supply …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson announced it will supply BellSouth’s Panama affiliate with a CDMA2000 1x overlay for the operator’s nationwide TDMA network including network equipment, services and Sony Ericsson handsets. The news closely follows Ericsson’s recent announcement it will supply Cable & …