Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 12 August 2009; 7484 views

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide Argentina’s Servicio Satelital with a SkyEdge II satellite communications network to enable broadband Internet connectivity at hundreds of sites nationwide. The sites will include schools, oil and gas firms and retail lottery locations...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 July 2009; 9726 views

América Móvil and Nokia will be bringing a top of the line messaging experience via multiple devices to customers in Latin America...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2009; 8081 views

Colibria has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile Instant Messaging services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end Movistar Messenger service with a rich set of messaging and presence features, and full integration with SMS...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 29 June 2009; 8702 views

The Mobile Payments in Latin America is still relatively under developed. However, it has the potential to grow rapidly and offers a significant prospective market for mobile operators, financial services, governments, retailers and end users. But without increased collaboration between the major stakeholders the market could take much longer to develop...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 June 2009; 9884 views

Ceragon Networks, which provides high-capacity, LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that Codetel, a fixed/mobile operator in the Dominican Republic is expanding its communications network using Ceragon equipment...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 May 2009; 10330 views

Pay-TV is set for continuing fast growth, according to a new report by Pyramid Research. IPTV will be overshadowed by other methods of bringing TV services to the region, primarily because of regulatory hurdles and the telcos' need to look to other methods of bringing IPTV to Latin America in the light of ever-increasing and immediate customer demand...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 14 April 2009; 9250 views

cVidya Networks, which specialises in enhancing telecom data integrity, revenue assurance and dealer management systems, has announced that Antel, Uruguay's state-owned telecoms service provider, has signed an agreement for implementation of cVidya's MoneyMap suite solution throughout its operation in Uruguay...

Details: Vince Lesch; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 April 2009; 11374 views

Vince Lesch reviews successes in enhancing SMS in Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Latin America as a whole...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 02 March 2009; 7600 views

During 2008, Datatronics has supplied, integrated, and deployed more than 170 signaling nodes with NewNet CT's Distributed7 signalling platform in Latin America to manage pre- and postpaid services...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 February 2009; 9403 views

A key contract win for Synchronica in Chile means that Entel PCS becomes its first Latin American operator. Strategic partner Brightstar has helped Synchronica's Mobile Gateway into the Chilean market...

Details: Category: Service Management; 30 January 2009; 8370 views

WFN Strategies has been contracted by Windward Telecom Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago to provide network planning and design services for the Trinidad Offshore Fibre Electronics (TOFFE) project. WFN Strategies will oversee the development of a network architecture which meets the needs of the offshore oil and gas industry operating in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as perform an initial cable route study...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 January 2009; 10136 views

Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Communications in Colombia have led to the signature of new agreements for services under the Compartel I, Compartel II and Telecentros projects which were awarded to Gilat's Colombian subsidiaries in 1999 and 2002...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 02 January 2009; 6819 views

Latin Americans living in the USA are keen to adopt money transfer using the less traditional method of a mobile phone, according to a survey commissioned by Upaid, the leading mobile payments provider. Upaid commissioned Research Now to survey US citizens transferring money to countries across Latin America...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 November 2008; 9586 views

Andrew and its representative in Chile, Raylex, have been chosen by Entel PCS to deploy wireless network infrastructure. The overall contract is intended to enhance the already well-subscribed Chilean mobile market...

Details: Cisco; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 November 2008; 8089 views

Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco recently held a virtual meeting to inaugurate Cisco's first TelePresence system in Argentina. They used the opportunity to discuss the use of technology for health, education and economic development for greater social inclusion of citizens...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10917 views

A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 9973 views

Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 October 2008; 12421 views

Caribbean telecoms operators have enjoyed many successes in recent years, with the Dominican Republic boasting five million mobiles within a population of ten million. To support network expansion and coverage, local fixed/wireless operator Codetel has deployed Ceragon's FibeAir 3200T all-indoor wireless trunk solution...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 October 2008; 8396 views

Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 9470 views

A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 September 2008; 10078 views

Andicom, one of the longest established ICT congresses in Latin America and the leading communications event in Colombia is creating a digital city, U-City. U-City will offer visitors to the congress an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions which aims to demonstrate how future digital cities and lifestyles can be created.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 September 2008; 8969 views

Radiográfica Costarricense, a telecom operator in Central America, has selected ECI’s XDM MSPP solutions. ECI was selected based on its capabilities to offer several key technologies on a single platform - SDH, Ethernet and WDM - in order to assist RACSA with its aggressive expansion efforts in Costa Rica.

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 August 2008; 14365 views

In recent years, mobile operators across Latin America have enjoyed addressing markets hungry for their services. Mobile penetration in the Americas, excluding the USA and Canada, stood at 69.35% as of March 2008, according to World Cellular Information Service. Growth has been strong...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 28 July 2008; 10946 views

Four major telecoms providers operating in emerging markets have recently adopted HP's new charging technology to service up to 320 million subscribers. The system allows operators to offer customer-centric pricing models...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 July 2008; 7976 views

Upaid Systems has launched a new online service which allows Brazilian expatriates in the USA to top up the phones of their friends and family in Brazil. RechargeBrazil.com is the first website of its kind: a bilingual English/Brazilian-Portuguese service accessible via any internet connection. Long-distance phone recharge services have typically required credit to be purchased in a participating outlet...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 09 July 2008; 9766 views

High-speed wireless Internet is now a reality in Argentina's San Luis Province, as the result of collaboration by Wavion, La Punta University and Xiden Networking. This is a pioneering project which brings free, wide-area Internet to a region of Argentina...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 10322 views

A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. Key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 6854 views

A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 May 2008; 11528 views

Peru's Universal Service Fund is launching a campaign to bring broadband to the country's rural backwaters. Designed ultimately to be taken over by an operator, the campaign is intended to benefit 1.5 million Peruvians in more than 3,500 isolated localities...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 May 2008; 12059 views

Living up to this reputation as a radical leader, Bolivian president Evo Morales has used the opportunity of May Day to announce that he will be nationalising Entel, his country's main telco. He also declared that he would take over four foreign-owned gas companies. Key to the decision is the fact that 50% of Entel's ownership is in the hands of Telecom Italia SpA. Negotiations whereby Entel would purchase Telecom Italia's share go back several months and have been complicated...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 April 2008; 10436 views

Cubans are now able to buy mobile phones. They can now use pre-paid systems to make both national and international calls. This is the first time that this has been possible in Cuba and reflects a limited programme of economic liberalisation which Raul Castro is authorising, not least in ending bans on electrical consumer goods...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 April 2008; 12339 views

The Cuban government announced last week that it will allow the general public to purchase prepaid mobile phones - a privilege previously only afforded to key government officials and foreign workers. Despite the previous restrictions, some Cubans had managed to acquire mobile phones from foreigners. Nevertheless, usage has remained low. According to Analysis research, mobile penetration stood at only 1.8% at the end of 2007, up from 1.6% in the previous year...

Details: Category: Service Management; 18 April 2008; 8553 views

MACH, the provider of business processes to optimise roaming profitability, today announced that I.C.E. (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) Costa Rica has moved from VeriSign to become a new MACH client...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 March 2008; 9523 views

A new Networking Skills Gap study commissioned by Cisco has revealed a future gap of nearly 27 percent between supply and demand of Internetworking experts by 2010. The shortage equates to nearly 90,000 qualified professionals who would need to be trained before then to meet the expected demand...

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