Cell phones in Peru
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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....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....Peru prosecutor charges 8 with illegal wiretapping Peru's attorney general presented criminal charges Friday against eight people, including a recently demoted rear admiral, accused of making illegal wiretap recordings that forced the entire Cabinet to resign....Peru naval officers arrested for illegal wiretaps In another twist to Peru's oil-kickback scandal, police have arrested five people for allegedly recording the telephone conversations that revealed the scheme....Growth of ICT Servics in Latin America to Stagnate Despite this trend, there have been considerable improvements in all areas, in particular an increase in computers (23%) and a 16% increase in internet users, which brings the total to 259 users per 1,000 inhabitants....NII Holdings - Revenues and Profits Hit Record Levels NII Holdings, the Latin American iDEN specialist, has matched the record customer intake seen in Q2, adding 395k subscribers to take its total to 5.84m....Peru's Mobile Telephony to Surpass US$2.7 Billion in Revenues by 2013 Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency (Proinversión) plans to auction off 821 – 824 MHz and 866 – 869 MHZ radio-electric spectrum for Lima and Callao along with 25 MHz on C-band (1.900 MHz) nationwide. ...Jinny Wins Two South Amercian SMSC Contracts Jinny Software has won two new deals with operators in Peru and Brazil, both of which are part of a larger Brazilian group operator. Jinny's SMSC was selected by both operators due to the previous success experienced by the Brazilian group operator....Wi-Net expects client base to grow 40% in 2008 Peruvian wireless broadband provider Wi-Net expects to expand its client base 40% in 2008 from 325 at end-2007, company commercial director Augusto Fernández told BNamericas....Peruvian mobile telephony operator Movistar, of Spain's Telefónica, has won a concession to provide fixed wireless services on the 900MHz spectrum band, the state agency for promoting private investment ProInversión said in a statement.... |
