ComScore released a ranking of countries with the highest number of hits on the social network Twitter. The list was compiled based on a measurement taken during the month of June on the subject of increased traffic through the Soccer World Cup. Six Latin American countries appear on the top 20. Brazil ranked second and [...]
The Brazilian TV script keeps shaping itself as the market adapts to the Telefónica, Portugal Telecom and Vivo earthquake. All players, including the regulator, keep pouring news to the media every day and last week was no exception. Lets start with some mild news to heat our reading engines The Brazilian government announced the auction [...]
We are sure that you folks have been following the Vivo soap opera this past two months —although it began some years ago—. Indeed we also believe you all knew that despite all the noise about the deal, it was just a matter of time before Telefónica would end up controlling Vivo, the same way [...]
A few weeks back we had to cancel our weekly Wrap Up as our company signed new clients and we had to reorganize to accommodate our new projects. With things now settle we first apologize for not covering the market and we hope our new structure prevents us from stopping our weekly news service. So [...]
No doubt about it, Brazil is considered a gold mine for both Telefónica and Portugal Telecom (PT). Both are offering mobile services through a 50-50 Joint Venture although they would love to dominate that market on their own. Telefónica has greater financial muscle and has therefore attempted to convince PT several times in selling its [...]
We are really looking forward to see governments bet on the development of broadband services in Latin America. And Brazil is among the countries pushing harder to develop a plan to make sure all its citizens can pick up at least one broadband signal to connect to. The Brazilian Government introduced last week its national [...]
Quovis Media Wrap Up was off last week because our team members were in Rio de Janeiro, not enjoying Ipanema beach but attending Informa´s LTE Latin America 2010. During the event operators from Chile, Argentina and Brazil explained how the technology will fit into their future business roadmap. LTE is seen by the operators as [...]
Both largest telecom operators in Latin America, Telefónica and América Móvil, announced last week figures related to their operations. While Telefónica championed itself for its future Latin America performance, América Móvil announced investment figures for the next two to three years. Telefónica Chairman, Cesar Alierta, expects revenues of 33 billion euros from its Latin America [...]
Our weekly wrap Up has been frozen for two weeks and we have two interesting excuses. The first week, we were attending CTIA WIRELESS 2010 and we experienced a massive load of information that we did not anticipate. The event proved to be better than expected both in terms of information as well as business [...]
After a rough two years, mobile operators will look to increase their capital expenditure on improving their networks in 2010, said a press release from consultancy firm ABI Research, which expects mobile CAPEX to grow by more than 4% year on year in 2010, after contracting by 2.7% in 2009. However, for once, the fastest [...]