NII Holdings, which operates in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Chile under the brand Nextel, announced that its income for the fourth quarter of 2010 reached 98,6 million dollars, 65% more than in the same period in 2009. For this year the company estimates that it should achieve consolidated operating income of around 6.600million dollars [...]
Ecuador achieved 15,11 million active mobile lines at the month of December 2010, representing a penetration level of 105,67%, informed the Superintendency of Telecommunications (Supertel). Market shares are distributed between Porta (America Movil) with 69,78%, Movistar with 28,2% and CNT EP with 2,02%. From the total accesses 7,56% are with 3G lines that correspond to [...]
The Minister of Transport and Communications, Enrique Cornejo, announced last week that the license for the 700 MHz band to provide mobile telephony and Internet services through LTE would be auctioned in June. In addition, in the same market, the Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment (ProInversion) awarded the concession for the license to [...]
America Móvil announced that it will invest 340 million dollars in the development of new technology for its fixed and mobile operations, Claro and Codetel, in the Dominican Republic during 2011. According to the president of the company, Oscar Peña, the company will cease operating fixed telephones under the name Dominican Telecommunications Company (Codetel) as [...]
The Chilean Undersecretary of Telecommunications (SUBTEL) estimates that the bidding process for the administration system of number portability could open by March or mid April. The head of SUBTEL, Jorge Atton, signaled that the system should be implemented to a level of between 60 and 80% by the end of the year. Atton warned that [...]
We begin a new year hoping to see a lot of positive things taking place in Latin America’s telecom industry. During 2010 seeds were planted and during 2011 many of them will grow and flourish. Here we begin our telecom reporting for the new year. The president of Telefonica Chile, Cluaudio Muñoz, said that the [...]
A report from the consultancy IDC indicates that the Latin American telecommunications market will close 2010 with a growth level of more than 8% in total accesses, achieving 650 million connections. During the next two years the growth in the sector will be propelled by the fixed and mobile broadband market, as well as VoIP [...]
Last week Nextel was the only company which made an offer for Band H to offer 3G services on 1,9 and 2,1 GHz in Brazil. ANATEL informed in a release, however, that Vivo, Claro, Oi, TIM and CTBC, due to the conditions of the licensing, would be making offers for the remaining frequencies (800 and [...]
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