Luxembourg based mobile holding company Millicom Cellular International has already sufficient spectrum to deploy 3G in its Latin American operations but does yet not see sufficient demand for the technology, company CEO Marc Beuls said during the company's conference call on 1Q07 results.
Beuls said that money was not an impediment to rolling out 3G.
In the Central and South American countries where Millicom operates it is not necessary to make large investments in purchasing additional spectrum licenses for 3G rollouts, unlike what happened in Europe.
"The great thing for us is that through the whole of Latin America we can run 3G in the frequencies we have today," Beuls said.
However, there is still insufficient customer demand to justify a network upgrade in the short term, the executive said.
"The customers are very happy with the 2.5G offerings we have that are sufficient for services such as BlackBerry, which is what the customers are looking for," Beuls added.
Millicom has operations in Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala."
Posted to the site on 25th April 2007
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