Latest Telecoms News from Bolivia
Airspan Networks Wins Bolivian WiMAX Network Contract
Airspan Networks says that Bolivian communications provider, Cooperativa de Teléfonos Automáticos Santa Cruz De La Sierra Limitada (COTAS) has commissioned it to supply 3.5 GHz WiMAX infrastructure covering major cities in Bolivia....
Related Tags: airspan-networks, wimax, base, broadband, life
Bolivia pins hopes on lithium, electric vehicles
To Bolivia's president, it's the great silvery-white hope. Lithium, the lightest metal. Half the density of water. Used in cell phone, laptop and iPod batteries, and in the years to come, many thousands of electric and hybrid vehicles propelling humanity into a cleaner energy future....
Related Tags:
Millicom Launches 3G Services in Three Countries
Millicom International Cellular has launched 3G services in Guatemala, Honduras and as previously reported, Bolivia. ...
Related Tags: arpu, mobile-broadband, millicom
3G Network Launched in Bolivia
Bolivian mobile operator, Telecel operating under the brand name Tigo, has launched 3G services in the country. The service has been launched in several cities in the regions of Santa Cruz, La Paz and Cochabamba....
Related Tags: wimax, telecel, millicom
WiMAX Network Launched in Bolivia
Bolivia's Nuevatel PCS - which operates under the VIVA brand name, and Alcatel-Lucent have announced the launch of a commercial WiMAX rev-e network in Bolivia, based on the WiMAX 802.16e-2005 standard....
Related Tags: voip, alcatel-lucent
Bolivian Network Enables Electronic Top-Ups in Retail Stores
Bolivian operator, Viva has launched electronic top-ups for its PrePay customers throughout the country - in cooperation with mobile payments provider, MoreMagic Solutions. ...
Related Tags: prepay, mobile-payments
Bolivia To Nationalize Telecom Italia Unit
President Evo Morales said Thursday that he is nationalizing the leading Bolivian telecom company and will return four foreign-owned gas companies to state control....
Related Tags: telecom-italia, entel
Bolivian Operator Orders First WiMAX Deployment
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a contract by Bolivia's Entel to deploy the first commercial WiMAX Rev-e (802.16e-2005 standard) network in the country....
Related Tags: voip, alcatel-lucent, entel
Viva expects to expand client base by 50% in 2008
Bolivian mobile operator NuevaTel, which operates under the Viva brand, expects to expand its customer base by 50% in 2008, the company's VP for marketing Diego Gutiérrez told BNamericas....
Related Tags:
Tax regulator confirms Entel owes US$28.9mn
Bolivia's tax regulator STG has confirmed government tax agency SIN's allegations that fixed line incumbent Entel owes the state 221mn bolivianos (US$28.9mn) in tax payments, newswire EFE reported....
Related Tags:
