One of Latin America’s largest telecommunications companies, the Chilean firm VTR, is entering the mobile telephony market...

Rising demand for broadband services in South America has prompted the satellite service provider atrexx to add a new service platform to its product portfolio...

Chilean mobile users are now able to top up their phones electronically with the launch of a new mobile wallet service...

Thirteen mobile networks operated by LIME, the Caribbean business of Cable & Wireless Communications, are to be upgraded to a fourth generation standard...

The Puerto Rican subsidiary of América Móvil, Claro Puerto Rico, has launched the mobile instant messaging service Claro Messenger, a carrier-owned and branded IM community...

The Jamaican Government has retained LIME, the Caribbean branch of Cable & Wireless, to build out a major portion of its island-wide broadband network...

The Patagonian district of Tierra del Fuego will be the site of new manufacturing facilities for the assembly of mobile phones and other wireless devices, following the signing of a letter of intent between distribution specialist Celistics and Cooperative ‘Renacer’...

Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission (CFC) has issued a US$1 billion fine to the Mexican branch of America Movil for “monopolistic practices”...

One of the global telecommunications industry’s highest-profile manufacturers is reportedly on the verge of increasing its presence in Brazil with an investment of billions of dollars...

Subscribers of TelCell St Maarten, the mobile services arm of TelEm Group, will soon enjoy faster mobile broadband...

In an apparent challenge to the dominance of America Movil, Mexico’s media firm Grupo Televisa has acquired a 50% stake in the country’s third largest operator, Iusacell. Shareholders of both firms will have “equal corporate governance” over the resulting entity...

The largest mobile operator in the Americas, Claro, has implemented a new Dynamic SIM Allocation (DSA) solution to help streamline its SIM card supply chain logistics and optimise its telephone number inventory...

New deals between America Movil and Digicel will see operations from each firm change hands. Digicel is set to acquire America Movil’s Jamaican operations, but will also sell its businesses in Honduras and El Salvador to the Lat-Am giant in a separate deal...

Subscribers of one of the Caribbean’s leading service providers, United Telecommunications Services (UTS), are now able to access improved data services...

Consumers in Paraná, Brazil, will soon have access to high-speed, affordable data services following the deployment of a 3000km optical fibre network by regional telecom operator Copel...

América Móvil subscribers will soon be able to get advertisements tailored to their interests through their mobile devices. The leading mobile operator in Latin America is introducing an end-to-end mobile advertising solution provided by Ericsson. Ericsson will also manage the solution and interfaces with all players in the advertising eco-systems...

One of Latin America’s leading electronic top-up service platforms, Movilway, is now expanding into Mexico to offer electronic top-up for prepaid users...

Talia is expanding its iDirect Evolution (DVB-S2) services to South America, served through Telesat Telstar 12, KU band. The same network provides services for the Middle East, Europe, Russia, North America, West, Central and East Africa...

Customers in Argentina and Brazil will soon be able to make domestic and international online payments, following the announcement that global eMoney network Ukash is expanding its footprint into these countries...

Mobile payments could soon be greatly facilitated across Latin America following the announcement of a new joint venture between MasterCard and Telefonica...

Panama’s América Móvil subsidiary, Claro Panama, has launched the operator’s mobile Instant Messaging (IM) service, Claro Messenger...

Mobile Instant Messaging continues its spread across Latin America, with Claro Perú becoming the fifth subsidiary of América Móvil to launch the Claro Messenger service...

One of Panama’s largest telecommunications carriers, Telefónica Moviles Panama, S.A., has interconnected to iBasis’s network for the exchange of international fixed and mobile phone calls. The network spans more than 100 countries, delivering more than 24 billion minutes of voice traffic annually...

Costa Rica’s state-owned operator is set to face competition for the first time, as the Latin American country has awarded mobile operating licences to Telefonica and America Movil. The two firms won licences with bids of US$95 million and $75 million respectively...

Haiti’s first mobile money service has been launched by Voilà and Unibank, following a successful nine month pilot which provided the international relief and development agency Mercy Corps with a secure, cost-effective method of distributing money across Haiti to support reconstruction efforts...

Around 49 million subscribers to Claro Brazil, the Brazilian subsidiary of América Móvil, will now have access to a device-agnostic mobile IM solution, provided by Synchronica. Named Claro Messenger, the mobile IM service is powered by Synchronica’s hosted instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) platform...

Arianespace has successfully launched Intelsat S.A.’s newest satellite, the Intelsat 17 (IS-17), from Kourou, French Guiana...

The national carrier of Paraguay, Compañía Paraguaya de Comunicaciones S.A. (COPACO S.A.), has connected to iBasis, a wholesale carrier for the exchange of long distance phone calls. The connection makes Paraguay part of a global network spanning over 100 countries and delivering more than 2 billion minutes of international voice traffic every month...

The US Virgin Islands recently witnessed the launch of commercial services – including unlimited voice services and 4G mobile broadband - by Choice Communications...

ITU has dispatched thirty broadband satellite terminals to Haiti as the country prepares for hurricane Tomas...

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the establishment of its fifth Global Network Operations Centre (GNOC) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is the first GNOC in the Americas and it aims to serve a growing base of Latin American operators seeking to outsource network operations so that they can focus on core activities of their business. The GNOC will be established with an initial 15 million euro investment and host up to 300 expert technicians, responsible for managing up to 20 million subscribers. The centre will be operational from January 2011...

 Claro Dominicana, the subsidiary of America Movil in the Dominican Republic, has launched a mobile email and synchronisation service based on Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway messaging infrastructure...

 The collaboration between the Mexican media company Grupo Televisa and the mobile operator NII Holdings (Nextel) has come to an abrupt end, with GT scrapping its agreement to purchase a 30% stake in Nextel...