Articles tagged with: Entel
Qualcomm: Two national CDMA450 launches likely in 2008
Operators in these countries will be emulating Telmex, which launched a national CDMA450 network in its home turf of Mexico in March this year, in association with Qualcomm. more
Related Tags: telefonica, wcdma, qualcomm, america-movil, cdma450, cdma2000, chipsets, chipset, ev-do
Entel launches 2nd phase of rural mobile program
In this second stage, the company expects to deploy 150 base stations in municipalities with no access to these services. This infrastructure will be deployed in all the country's departments, bringing coverage to 90 towns. more
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Chile's Entel net profit rises 24% in Q3
Revenues rose 6% to 216bn pesos from 203bn pesos a year ago. Ebitda increased 10% to 91.1bn pesos versus 82.7bn pesos in 3Q06, while the Ebitda margin was 42% compared to 41%. more
Related Tags: capex, telefonica, vas, next-generation-network, movistar, gprs, cfo, claro, Chile
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: america-movil, movistar, telcel, claro, Colombia
Chile's Entel wants more 3G spectrum
"A 3G network needs investment, spectrum and frequency. They say that local operators have a lot of frequency, but that is between 55MHz and 60MHz, while in Europe they have 120MHz," Rodriguez said. more
Related Tags: movistar, subtel, claro, Chile
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: america-movil, movistar, subtel, claro, Chile
Dotcom receives virtual mobile operator license
Dotcom is now authorized to rent capacity from mobile operators and resell the minutes under its own brand name. The license was issued despite objections from the country's three mobile companies: entel PCS, Claro Chile, of Mexico's America Movil, and Movistar Chile, of Spain's Telefonica. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, voip, mvno, movistar, claro
Sittel studies technical reports on mobile congestion
Mobile operators had until September 4 to present these reports. more
Related Tags: telecom-italia, tigo, millicom-international, millicom
Report: Open mobile market could grow 18%/y until 2012
Currently the mobile market in Costa Rica is monopolized by state company ICE, which has around 1.4mn subscribers and saw revenue of around US$425mn from mobile services in 2006, the report said. more
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Watchdog awaits green light to launch 3G auction
In June, Subtel asked the TDLC to determine whether existing mobile concession holders should be restricted from participating in upcoming auctions for mobile spectrum. TDLC requested a report on the state of the market, which was handed in on Tuesday (Sep 4) and then updated with additional information requested by the TDLC on September 6. more
Related Tags: compete, movistar, subtel, claro
