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Articles tagged with: America Movil and Claro
America Movil Deploys Amdocs to Support Triple-Play in Dominican Republic
Amdocs has announced that Dominican Republic telco, CODETEL has deployed its CES (customer experience systems) for convergent wireline, wireless, broadband and IPTV billing, ordering and customer relationship management. more
Related Tags: amdocs, iptv, broadband, Dominican Republic
Alcatel-Lucent to Build Backhaul Network for Claro Panama
Claro Panama, an America Movil affiliate, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build its all IP nation-wide mobile backhaul network. Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS (Internet protocol/Multiprotocol Layer Switching) solution will provide Claro Panama a full IP backhaul network for optimized cost and scalability. Alcatel-Lucent also will provide a range of services such as network consulting and design, installation, operations and maintenance. more
Related Tags: claro-panama, alcatel-lucent, backhaul, Panama
Brazil's CDMA Base Heading Towards Extinction
The latest monthly data from Anatel, the Brazilian regulator, shows a marked reduction in the pace of the growth in the market. This should come as no surprise - the fourth quarter saw a record number of new connections and included two of the four best months ever. The industry added a total of 1.31m new connections in January, to take the market total to 151.9m, equivalent to nearly 70% penetration. more
Related Tags: amazon, w-cdma, telenor, cdma, vivo, Brazil
Jamaican Operator Aiming for 3G Launch in November
Cable and Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) expects to launch its 3G network on 15th November, according to the company's senior vice-president of business sales, Leroy Reid. Speaking at a local conference, he said that the company would have a phased rollout initially in the main business district along with St Catherine and St Thomas. more
Related Tags: iphone, ericsson, cdma, digicel, siemens, Jamaica
Jamaican Operator to Adopt Claro Brand
Jamaican mobile operator, MiPhone is to rebrand as Claro from Thursday this week - matching the branding from its parent company, America Movil. Oceanic Digital Jamaica, the parent company of MiPhone was brought by America Movil last year for US$70 million. more
Related Tags: iphone, apple, apple, cdma, digicel, apple-iphone, Jamaica
Who are the Top 10 Operators in Lat-Am and The Caribbean?
The top 10 network operators in the Caribbean & Latin America region now all have over 10m customers as 10th placed Telecom Personal of Argentina crossed the 10m customer barrier in the quarter. The composition and order of the top 10 has remained unchanged throughout 2007, with Telecel in Mexico leading from Vivo and TIM in Brasil. Telcel has pulled ahead of its rivals, extending its lead over Vivo from 12.0m customers at the end of September 2006 to 16.2m customers a year later, whilst TIM closed the gap between it and its domestic rival from 4.6m to 2.2m customers during the year. more
Related Tags: telefonica, tim, telcel, telecel, vivo, telefonica-moviles, tim-brazil
Slim: America Movil earmarks US$1.1bn for Claro in 2008
"Claro is investing a lot in order to increase its capacity and its national presence, above all in 3G," Slim said after a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, 3g-licenses, Brazil
Colombia's Comcel brings 3G launch forward
Comcel, a unit of Mexico's America Movil, originally said in May that it expected to launch its WCDMA/HSDPA network in the first quarter of 2008. more
Related Tags: entel, movistar, telcel, Colombia
Chile consultation on 3G auction runs Oct 5-24
The antimonopoly commission (TDLC) is fielding the comments, having received a technical report from Subtel in September. more
Related Tags: entel, movistar, subtel, Chile
FEATURE: Brazil's Spectrum auction reshuffles mobile map
Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel succeeded in changing the country's mobile telephony map with its auction of leftover 2G spectrum on September 25 and 26. more
Related Tags: amazon, 3g-license, tim, tim-brasil, oi, vivo, Brazil