According to reports, Telefonica will next year shift the location of its Latin American headquarters from Spain to Brazil, a process which will create 100 new jobs...

A new joint venture between one of the world’s largest operating groups and a major payments specialist will develop mobile payment solutions for Brazil...

Two of the largest operators in Brazil have laid out their plans for LTE launches...

The Brazilian Minister of Communications, Paolo Bernado, has delivered a coruscating tirade against regulation over the deployment of mobile infrastructure, which he believes is stymieing mobile growth...

Coastguard services around St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been augmented by the introduction of a new Global Maritime Distress and Safety System...

One of Mexico’s largest operators is deploying an LTE network across the country...

A new cloud-based mobile portal is being launched by a major Mexican operator...

Latin American telecom giant America Movil has reneged on a deal to acquire the entire El Salvador operation of Digicel...

Two major Brazilian operators have selected the vendors that will provide equipment for their LTE networks...

Argentinean mobile users are now able to have an additional telephone line on their mobile phone without the need to purchase another SIM card, following the deployment of a new service known as “Mi Número Extra”...

In an ambitious move, a major Brazilian operator is aiming to provide LTE coverage to seven cities by April 2013...

On Friday, the 21st of September, COFETEL, Mexico’s telecoms regulator, confirmed that Mexico has adopted the APT band plan for 700MHz digital dividend spectrum. In the arcane world of spectrum management this is a very exciting step...

Mexico’s regulator Cofetel has approved proposals to use the 700MHz band for mobile. Industry observers have expressed hope that other Latin American operators could be spurred to do the same in the wake of the development...

A major Latin American submarine cable network is being upgraded with 40G technology...

Over 40 Latin American operators are forming an alliance to address the issue of visibility of data roaming charges...

Colombia’s National Fibre Optic Project will see the largest and most modern fibre optics network deployed across the country...

Virgin Mobile (VMLA) has announced a debt funding agreement to fund its virtual operator Virgin Mobile Chile with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group...

A new agreement will see the development of new online sector franchises for launch in Latin America and Africa...

There has been a vast increase in data growth in most markets over the last few years, with rising mobile penetration in the rural regions of emerging markets often cited as a key driver for competitiveness.

This has lead to many discussions on how best to develop and promote mobile penetration in rural areas, with the most notable issues being those of infrastructure deployment and backhauling. Handling the boom in data-hungry services requires reliable networks that can offer increased capacity, but delivering such coverage to rural areas presents many challenges...

Thirteen countries across the Caribbean will soon benefit from improved customer service, following a new deal by one of the region’s leading operators...

The Mexican Government has refused to renew existing 2.5GHz licenses, as it intends to re-auction the spectrum for 4G broadband services...

A major satellite provider is aiming a series of tailored promotions at organisations in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa requiring high monthly volumes of broadband data for sustained periods of operation in remote sites...

An even greater number of mobile users in Latin America can now have their phones topped up by friends and relatives in Europe following the extension of a wide-reaching top-up service by one of the largest operators in the region. Telefonica will offer the service in partnership with recharge specialist ezetop, via the latter’s distribution network of over 117,000 shops.

The Brazilian branch of Telecom Italia, TIM Brasil, is seeking to overturn a regulatory decision that prevents it from offering new mobile contracts...

The Spanish operator Telefonica has lodged a claim for over US$1 billion in damages against Mexico, claiming that regulatory changes made by the Central American country over the past few years have adversely affected both its revenue and investment plans...

HTC has been priced out of the Brazilian market but its competitors, ceasing its operations in the Latin American country...

NSN has declared its intention of becoming a major player in Brazil’s 4G network equipment market, with the vendor’s Latin American chairman Aluizio Byrro stating that the company is aiming at taking a third of this market...

A new network infrastructure joint venture between two major telecom players is set to provide new services in Mexico...

Latin America’s adoption of mobile commerce solutions evolved throughout 2011. Many financial institutions revisited their deployment of mobile banking, and mobile network operators formed mobile payments alliances - most notably America Movil, which formed a joint venture with Citibank, and Telefónica, which partnered with MasterCard...

A new initiative being launched by a major Latin American advertiser will enable app developers worldwide to distribute their apps across a portfolio of associated publishers, ad networks and exchanges in Latin America...

Latin America’s burgeoning telecoms sector is outstripping Europe’s, according to the financial reports of two major groups with operations in both markets...

A major Central American wholesale provider has upgraded its Panamanian network to incorporate 100G optical channel technology...

The first internet-free mobile Facebook, email and online chat app platform outside of Africa has been launched in the Caribbean...