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Brazil's Vivo See Profits Jump on Lower Debt Costs

  Brazilian mobile network operator, Vivo Participacoes saw its 3rd quarter net profit jump by 154% to US$197 million, largely due to lower borrowing costs. Revenues were up by 4% to US$2.2 billion....

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TIM Brazil to Launch Qualcomm Supplied App Store Early Next Year

  TIM Brazil and Qualcomm have announced a joint agreement to launch the first multi-platform wireless applications store in Latin America....

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Astellia Wins Latin American Network Monitoring Contracts

  Nextel International has awarded a contract to Astellia to monitor its networks in selected Latin American markets. ...

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Alcatel-Lucent Upgrading Brazilian Network

  Alcatel-Lucent says that it has deployed a packet optical transport and microwave packet radio backhaul network for TIM Brazil in its metropolitan markets....

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Vivendi to buy Brazilian telecoms operator GVT

  Vivendi will offer EUR2 billion ($2.9 billion) to acquire Brazilian Internet and telecommunications company GVT, the French media and entertainment company said Wednesday....

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Hughes to Provide Satellite-Based Cellular Backhaul Services in Brazil

  Satellite operator, Hughes Network Systems says that its Brazilian subsidiary has signed agreements with two unnamed Brazilian cellular operators to provide satellite backhaul services connecting remote cellular base stations to their GSM networks....

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Brazil's TIM posts Q2 Net Loss Shrinks

  Brazil's TIM Participacoes has reported an improved second quarter loss of R$15.2 million, compared with a loss of R$66.3 million a year earlier. EBITDA rose by 15.5% to R$736 million, an EBITDA margin of 22.3%...

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Latin America Losses from VoIP to Exceed US$18.4 Billion by 2014

  Landline and mobile telephony losses from VoIP are expected to exceed US$18.4 billion by 2014 in Latin America, reports local research house, Signals Telecom Consulting. ...

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Vivo Subscriber Base Passes 46 Million Mark

  Brazilian mobile network operator, Vivo has reported that it attracted 1.178 million new subscribers in the second quarter of this year, bringing its total to 46.8 million. The company says that is market share has now reached 29.3%....

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Vivo Upgrades Anti-Fraud Software

  Brazilian mobile network operator, Vivo has upgraded its anti-fraud platform based on software provided by ECtel....

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