Telecoms news from Peru

Nextel Sells Peruvian Subsidiary to Chile's Entel

Latin America's NII Holdings (Nextel) has announced a deal to sell its Peruvian operations to Chile's Entel for approximately $400 million. ...more.

Nextel Looking to Sell Peruvian Subsidiary

Latin American mobile network operator, NII Holdings (Nextel) saw its shares jumped momentarily by a quarter yesterday on reports that it is in talks to sell its Peruvian subsidiary. ...more.

Telefonica Secures 19-Year Extension to Peru Mobile Operator License

Telefonica's Peruvian subsidiary has secured an agreement to extend its mobile operator license for a shade under 19 years. ...more.

Moody's upgrades Telefonica Celular del Paraguay's Debt Ratings

The rating on Telecel and its notes is supported by the company's status as the top mobile operator in the country, with an estimated 56% market share; track record of strong and resilient growth despite changes in government; ...more.

Peru Sees 9-Months Handset Imports Exceed Half a Billion Dollars

Imports of mobile phones into Peru in the first nine months of this year rose by 24% compared to the previous year - reaching US$544 million. ...more.

ZTE Wins Network Deployment Contract in Peru

ZTE has won a national 2G/3G wireless network project in Peru with mobile operator Viettel. During the first phase of the project, ZTE will build more than 2000 base-stations. ...more.

Peru: National Broadband Plan and Spectrum Auction to Fuel Growth

Broadband penetration in Peru is expected to double from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 9.3 percent in 2016, driven by the government's national broadband plan to bring Internet connectivity via fiber-optic cables to isolated regions, ...more.

WiMAX Network Launched in Peru

USA-based VelaTel Global Communications (previously ChinaTel Group) has announced that its Peru based GO MOVIL wireless broadband access network went "live" today in all eight cities where it holds licenses. ...more.

Viettel Wins Peru Fixed Wireless License

The Vietnamese company Viettel Group is to provide fixed mobile services in Peru through an award in which it undertook to provide free Internet services to more than four thousand schools. ...more.

Claro Launches Hosted Mobile Instant Messenger Service

Claro Peru has become the fifth subsidiary of the America Movil group to launch Claro Messenger, a mobile IM service powered by Synchronica's hosted instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) platform ...more.

Mobile Data Revenue to Triple in Peru as 3G Services Increase

Due to low penetration rates, an expanding economy, deploying 3G networks, and declining smartphone prices, mobile data revenue is expected to triple over the next five years in Peru, ...more.

Peru Starts Disconnecting Unregistered SIM Cards

Peru's telecoms regulator, Osiptel has warned that as many as one million phone customers would have had their phones cut off overnight as a SIM registration deadline passed. ...more.

ZTE Wins Peruvian Network Supply Contract

China's ZTE has won a contract from ChinaTel Group subsidiary, Perusat for a deployment of a wireless broadband telecommunications network in Peru. ...more.

Huawei Deploys ATCA-Based CDMA Mobile Softswitch Solution for Movistar Peru

Huawei has announced the deployment of its ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture)-based CDMA mobile softswitch solution in Peru. ...more.

American Tower Corporation Launches Operations in Peru

American Tower's Peruvian subsidiary, ATC Sitios del Peru, today announced that it has launched operations in Peru, where it recently entered into agreements to purchase up to 468 wireless communication tower sites from Telefonica del Peru. ...more.

America Movil, Telmex to invest $880 mn in Peru through 2012

Wireless operator America Movil and fixed-line company Telmex Internacional - both controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim - plan to make $880 million in infrastructure investments in Peru through 2012, the head of America Movil's Peruvian unit, Humberto Chavez, said. ...more.

Telefonica to Offer Push to Talk in Latin America

Telefonica is planning to roll out a push-to-talk service in its Latin American markets after signing a supply agreement with Conectel-Kodiak. ...more.

Astellia Wins Latin American Network Monitoring Contracts

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

Texting stops disease epidemic

After a 2001 malaria outbreak, the Peruvian military began a health project to let doctors in remote areas send a text alert if they find a suspect case of a particular disease. ...more.

NII Holdings Q1 Results - P&L belies underlying strength

NII Holdings, the iDEN operator with subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru has reported Q1 numbers. These show a 3% year-on-year drop in revenues to $961m and a 14% decline in EBITDA, to $245m. ...more.