The MVNO market is booming around the globe, and with good reason: it’s becoming increasingly easier for both mobile network operators (MNOs) and entrepreneurial companies to enter the market.
Mexican regulator IFT (Federal Telecommunications Institute) is lining up spectrum auctions for January, with 80MHz of 4G spectrum up on the block.
Chilean operator WOM (formerly Nextel Chile) has installed a remote SIM cards management system from Callup.
Telecoms service provider ZTE has signed a global cooperation agreement with operator Telefónica, strengthening an existing arrangement whereby ZTE becomes the primary technology partner of Telefónica.
Millicom Group-affiliated mobile operator Tigo has selected digital security firm Gemalto to provide a suite of M2M solutions, aimed at improving preventative maintainance using remote monitoring and management of machine identification modules (MIMs) in the field.
Mexico's telecommunications services will generate US$26.3 billion in revenues in 2018, according to new data published by Dataxis, a 4.2 per cent increase on 2014 figures.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, and Ocean Networks will extend the South America Pacific Link (SAPL) submarine cable system.
Mobile operators have a key role to play in fostering financial inclusion in Latin American countries with underdeveloped financial services markets through m-payments offerings, according to a new report by Pyramid Research.
Ecuadorian telecoms provider Telconet is deploying Ruckus Wireless’ Smart Wi-Fi products across the Latin American country, with over 4,000 ZoneFlex indoor and outdoor access points so far rolled out.
Fibre-optic (FTTH/B) connections in Latin America will hit 5.1 million connections by the end of 2015, according to Pyramid Research’s latest Fixed Communications Demand Forecast, with fixed lines reaching 163.8 million.
LTE connections in Latin America reached 11.76 million in 2014, according to new research from Dataxis.
Astellia is extending its monitoring of Digicel Haiti’s 2G network to its 3G network to support the growth of mobile broadband.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) has completed the commissioning of the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS).
Intelsat SA has signed a multi-year agreement with Axesat SA for satellite services on its high-performance Intelsat EpicNG platform.
Mexican broadcast giant Totalplay could enter the upcoming tender to build Mexico’s proposed $7 billion nationwide mobile broadband network.
AT&T has pledged an investment of around $3 billion into expanding its high-speed mobile broadband network in Mexico.
Telefonica has revealed a new smartphone procurement agreement with China Unicom.
Telefonica is implementing VPIsystem’s OnePlan software as part of its Transport Network Optimisation Program in Latin America.
Recent changes in US-Cuban political and economic relations provide unprecedented opportunities for US businesses in the telecommunications sector.
Three Latin American providers have launched app store carrier billing using Bango’s payment platform.
The 22% holding in Telecom Italia currently held by the Telco investment group will be broken up following approval from the Argentinean antitrust watchdog CNDC.
Following the success of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s regulatory reforms, Mexico has lowered the cost of its proposed tender for a wholesale national mobile broadband network by $3 billion.
Amdocs is supplying an operational data store solution to Telefónica Chile and Telefónica Peru to collect, store and gain actionable business insights from their volumes of data.
Telefonica Brasil’s public offering has brought in BRL16 billion ($5.3 billion) to finance its acquisition of broadband provider GVT.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) is partnering with Ocean Networks to build a 14,200 km submarine cable system linking Hawaii to South America.
Oi has begun implementation of a new broadband data communication network architecture from Alcatel-Lucent.
Millicom has partnered with Momac to launch SmartApps, a new Tigo-branded mobile service that will give mobile customers access to premium content.
Latin America is an attractive region for MNOs to explore the m-commerce space beyond m-payments, due to the increasing presence of mobile merchants and the strong base of mobile users.
America Movil has unveiled plans to spin off its tower mast business as a means of reducing its dominance in the Mexican telecoms market.
Telefonica Brasil has revealed that it will partially finance its acquisition of broadband firm GVT via a public offering.
Claro Perú has deployed Acision’s Collect SMS solution to allow subscribers to send text messages when out of credit by requesting that the receiver accept the charges.
The transport and communications ministry (SCT) of Mexico is aiming to begin tendering a $10 billion national mobile broadband network by October.
Six of the ten top-ranked countries in this year’s Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) Affordability Index are from Latin America. A4AI believes the high ranking of Latin American countries is not a coincidence.
Costa Rica has topped the overall rankings for internet affordability in the latest annual survey of developing and emerging markets undertaken by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI).
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