--- title: News from Latin America - Developing Telecoms description: Telecommunications News from Latin America canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/regions/latin-america-telecommunications.html?start=2006 language: en-GB date: 2025-11-25T00:11:39Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/regions/latin-america-telecommunications.html?start=2006. markdown-tokens: 3382 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/regions/latin-america-telecommunications.html?start=2006. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 11 June 2008 7551 views A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services... Details Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 May 2008 12183 views Peru's Universal Service Fund is launching a campaign to bring broadband to the country's rural backwaters. Designed ultimately to be taken over by an operator, the campaign is intended to benefit 1.5 million Peruvians in more than 3,500 isolated localities... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 07 May 2008 12861 views Living up to this reputation as a radical leader, Bolivian president Evo Morales has used the opportunity of May Day to announce that he will be nationalising Entel, his country's main telco. He also declared that he would take over four foreign-owned gas companies. Key to the decision is the fact that 50% of Entel's ownership is in the hands of Telecom Italia SpA. Negotiations whereby Entel would purchase Telecom Italia's share go back several months and have been complicated... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/cubatel_l.jpg) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 29 April 2008 11130 views Cubans are now able to buy mobile phones. They can now use pre-paid systems to make both national and international calls. This is the first time that this has been possible in Cuba and reflects a limited programme of economic liberalisation which Raul Castro is authorising, not least in ending bans on electrical consumer goods... Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 24 April 2008 13135 views The Cuban government announced last week that it will allow the general public to purchase prepaid mobile phones - a privilege previously only afforded to key government officials and foreign workers. Despite the previous restrictions, some Cubans had managed to acquire mobile phones from foreigners. Nevertheless, usage has remained low. According to Analysis research, mobile penetration stood at only 1.8% at the end of 2007, up from 1.6% in the previous year... Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 18 April 2008 8981 views MACH, the provider of business processes to optimise roaming profitability, today announced that I.C.E. (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) Costa Rica has moved from VeriSign to become a new MACH client... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/../images/stories/Company_Logos/cisco_160.gif) Details James Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 17 March 2008 10360 views A new Networking Skills Gap study commissioned by Cisco has revealed a future gap of nearly 27 percent between supply and demand of Internetworking experts by 2010. The shortage equates to nearly 90,000 qualified professionals who would need to be trained before then to meet the expected demand... Details Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 07 March 2008 9574 views This week, Wayfinder's award winning navigation services are being launched in Chile through the mobile operator Movistar. This is Wayfinder's first entry into the South American market... Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 07 December 2007 9558 views Airwide Solutions, which provides next-generation mobile messaging infrastructure and applications, has entered into an agreement with American Telecommunication Holdings to resell Airwide products throughout Latin America... Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 26 October 2007 10250 views Subex Azure Ltd is meeting the challenges arising from Analysys Research’s report "Global Operator Attitudes to Revenue Management"... Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 15 October 2007 10696 views Nokia Siemens Networks has been named Cable & Wireless' preferred supplier of Release 4 and Intelligent Packet Core networks architecture. The announcement follows the awarding of a US$40 million contract for the modernisation of C&W's Caribbean networks. Details Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 04 October 2007 13456 views Telecomunicaciones Movilnet CA, a mobile operator in Venezuela, will expand its existing use of Comverse billing solutions by deploying Comverse's Real-Time Billing Solution and by leveraging its real-time marketing capabilities... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Humanitarian Comms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/humanitarian-communications.html) 25 September 2007 11358 views Following the devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale that struck Southern Peru on 15 August 2007, ITU deployed 50 satellite terminals to help restore communication links in remote and underserved areas... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 23 July 2007 10128 views Jinny Software, a leading supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators will provide its messaging platforms to Cable & Wireless for networks in the Americas & Caribbean... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Optical & Fixed Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/optical-fixed-networks.html) 21 June 2007 13340 views Brasil Telecom GlobeNet has selected Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade its 22,000 km submarine network running across the Americas... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 28 May 2007 11877 views The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean recently published a report pointing out that foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean increased in 2006. Whether the increase matches expectations or not is another matter. According to one leading critic it does not and many companies, particualry in the ICT sector appear to be voting with their feet... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 28 May 2007 10313 views Veraz Networks has announced an IMS over WiMAX deployment that is one of the first such commercial installations in the Americas. The company's ControlSwitch has been chosen by Onemax as an IMS core to offer wireless broadband applications... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 23 April 2007 16023 views Set to run from this September, Wind Telecom's new wireless broadband network will offer high-speed broadband services to urban and rural customers across the Dominican Republic . Details Alec Barton Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 22 March 2007 10518 views Converged billing is expected to become greatly simplified for the Antigua Public Utilities Authority now that Redknee has been brought in to streamline APUA's billing system. Based on a turnkey contract APUA can now look forward to offering innovative rates and incentives... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 19 March 2007 13364 views TVA, the Brazilian pay TV company, has a business vision of delivering mobile broadband and hyper-connected communications to businesses and consumers alike. For this reason, TVA has commissioned Nortel to work on a WiMAX trial designed to exploit 4G to the maximum... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 05 March 2007 10617 views DigiLinea, a VoIP infrastructure and service provider to the US Hispanic and Latin American markets, has announced that KDDI will use the DigiLinea US Hispanic/Latin American VoIP Enabler Platform to provide its clients worldwide with the availability of local DIDs from over 100 cities across Latin America as well as high-quality low-cost direct termination region-wide... Details Alec Barton Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 02 March 2007 8855 views Telefónica Mexico has awarded Optimi a planning and optimisation contract to help it manage both its network growth and the increased demand it is currently experiencing for its voice and data services. Optimi will utilise x-Dimension, a capital-efficiency planning solution, to assist Telefónica Mexico's ongoing planning and design... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 02 March 2007 11881 views Digitalk is set to announce more services in the Caribbean. Key to the expansion is Caribbean operator MIO's selection of Digitalk's Multi-Service Platform to deploy a range of wireless value-added services... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/peru.gif) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 14 February 2007 11376 views Farming in the Huaral, a coastal valley in Peru, has always been a marginal operation, not least because the Huaral has a desert climate where it never rains. Any plan to improve the conditions of local farmers has to keep them informed of changing conditions. The Sistema de Información Agraria (SIA, Agrarian Information System), is a new decentralised structure create to collect and organise data using ICT technologies... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 20 January 2007 15358 views Latin Business Chronicle has just launched its Latin Technology Index, a review of how 17 countries in Central and South America are rising to the challenge of boosting penetration rates in PC, fixed and wireless telephony, Internet, and broadband Internet. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 17 January 2007 11576 views Colombia's communications ministry Mincomunicaciones (MinCom) has assigned 55 departmental WiMAX licences for 3.5GHz spectrum... Details Alec Barton Category: [Satellite Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/satellite-communications-networks.html) 15 January 2007 12061 views ViaSat Inc will be supplying its LinkStar DVB-S2 satellite networking system to Unete Telecomunicaciones SA (Bolivia) to expand enterprise broadband services in Ecuador and the surrounding region... Details Alec Barton Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 05 January 2007 12168 views Redknee Inc, which provides infrastructure software to monetise and personalise services and content for mobile users, has announced that Digicel Group has selected its CRM Solution to improve customer care and billing management in its newly acquired El Salvador operation... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 02 January 2007 14708 views ReCellular Inc has entered a two-year partnership with Vivo of Brazil to ensure safe, secure and environmentally friendly recycling of retired cell phones... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 25 October 2006 11220 views A growing customer database in Latin America is expected to enjoy VoIP solutions thanks to an expansion in activity in the region by deltathree... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 24 October 2006 13658 views Nokia has implemented a complete GSM core network for Telefónica Móviles Perú... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 16 October 2006 11365 views Lucent Technologies has signed a new contract with Eletropaulo Telecom, a telecom service provider forming part of AES Eletropaulo's electric energy distribution group and operating in the state of Sao Paulo . Details Alec Barton Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 05 October 2006 11466 views Deployment of Lucent's SurePay solution will integrate Belize Telecommunications Limited's existing GSM, AMPS and wireline charging/billing systems into one platform...