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Articles tagged with: America Movil
Mexico's America Movil Acquires Nicaraguan Telecom Firm
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexico's America Movil, Latin America's largest mobile operator, said Thursday that it has acquired a Nicaraguan telecommunications firm as part of its expansion in Central America. more
Related Tags: millicom-international, millicom, Nicaragua
America Movil Confirms iPhone for 10 Lat-Am Countries
Latin American operator, America Movil has joined the iPhone throng, and announced that it will bring iPhone 3G to 10 more countries in the region on August 22nd. iPhone 3G will be available through America Movil's Latin American operations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. more
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Telefonica's 2Q Mexico Wireless Subscribers Up 38% to 14.1 Million
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Spanish phone giant Telefonica said Thursday its wireless subscriber base in Mexico reached 14.1 million at the end of the second quarter, up 38% from a year earlier. more
Related Tags: prepay, telefonica, grupo-iusacell, movistar, iusacell, nextel, Mexico
Brazil Anatel: Oi/BRP Rule-Change Proposal Ready by Mid-Sep
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil's telecommunications regulator, Anatel, will complete rule-change proposals necessary for the takeover of local integrated telecom operator Brasil Telecom Participacoes by local rival Tele Norte Leste Participacoes', or Oi, by the middle of September, an Anatel official said Wednesday. more
Related Tags: telefonica, compete, brasil-telecom, oi, Brazil
America Movil CEO: Number Portability 'Positive or Neutral'
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexican wireless operator America Movil expects new rules requiring phone companies to provide number portability to be "positive or neutral" for the its Mexican unit Telcel, a top company official said Tuesday. more
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Mexico's America Movil 2Q Net Profit Up 25% to $1.75 billion
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexican wireless carrier America Movil said Monday its second-quarter net profit rose 25% on the year amid continued robust subscriber growth. more
Latin America: Proliferation of 3G Networks Will Drive Adoption of Mobile TV
In some Latin American mobile markets, such as Argentina and Chile, voice service has begun to reach saturation levels. As such, Value Added Services (VAS) like Mobile TV represent an alternative that allow operators to increase both revenues and customer loyalty. This situation has gained even more potential thanks to the roll out of 3G networks in the region. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, signals-telecom-consulting, mts, hspa, telefonica, edge, entel, seven, telcel
Caribbean Markets Reflect Low Level of Segmentation in Service Offerings
The new challenge faced by Caribbean operators is how to continue increasing revenues in markets having a small number of inhabitants in which voice services (fixed and mobile) have already surpassed the 100% teledensity mark. Companies will have to focus expansion efforts on value added services and service packaging. This will force operators to invest in new technologies that allow them to offer new services. Signals believes that this scenario will open the door for operators like America Movil to expand into new Caribbean markets as well as increase consolidation in the region. more
Related Tags: signals-telecom-consulting, digicel, wireless-broadband
Mexico Q1 '08 - Telefonica Gains Ground, but Telcel Maintains Dominance
The Mexican mobile market closed the quarter with 71.041m customers, up 2.345m on the quarter and 11.55m on the year. A majority of the new customers connected to Telcel, the America Movil subsidiary, taking its total base to 51.5m, or 72.5% of the total. This dominance is quite unprecedented and no other operator in any competitive market comes close to matching TelcelĂ's dominance. That the market has been competitive or supposedly competitive ever since mobile communications were first introduced nearly 20 years ago makes the situation all the more extraordinary. more
Related Tags: arpu, telefonica, iden, nextel, Mexico
Costa Rica: An Imperative for ICE to Implement Defensive Strategies
The recent passage of the General Telecommunications Law (LGT - Ley General de Telecomunicaciones) cleared the way for the entrance of new competitors into the Costa Rica mobile market. Signals Telecom Consulting points out that America Movil, Digicel, Millicom and Telefonica are the most important candidates for launching operations in a market that is attractive for various reasons: low mobile teledensity (less than 40%), high ARPU levels (the highest in Central America) and the absence of a prepaid market. more
Related Tags: roaming, arpu, signals-telecom-consulting, mts, telefonica, compete, mobile-internet, CostaRica