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Telefonica Launches Own App Store

..e free of charge. The new mstore will be accessible from the movistar emoción portal, and new handsets sold by movistar will give access through an icon on the mobile's own menu.  more

Related Tags: telefonica, app-store, broadband, Spain


Telefonica Expands Mobile Email Service to Consumer Market

Mobile email vendor, Seven has announced that Telefonica's existing business email service, Mail movistar has now been expanded to include the consumer segment. Seven says that having one email solution across Telefonica’s entire base generates new revenue as customers use the service for one purpose and migrate to using email for another.  more

Related Tags: seven, telefonica


Telefonica Testing "Idle Screen" Mobile Advertising

Telefonica's Argentinean mobile network has announced the launch of an "idle screen" marketing service which is operated by Celltick's LiveScreen Media platform. LiveScreen Media broadcasts news and information teasers as well as advertising messages, directly to the mobile phone's idle-screens, creating a network of personal billboards. Revenue from the service is generated from content downloads, subscription services and advertising fees.  more

Related Tags: celltick, telefonica, Argentina


Chile Publishes Details of 3G License Tender

The Chilean telecoms regulator, Subtel has published the tender details for a round of 3G licenses, which it anticipates will bring a new entrant into the market. The auction for the licenses is due to be held in July, a notice on the regulators website announced.  more

Related Tags: 3g, 3g-license, ovi, telefonica, entel, compete, nextel, antitrust, subtel, nextel-international, telefonica-moviles, claro, Chile


There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market

The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the European market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game.  more

Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, sim, social-networking, eu, 3-uk, vodafone, mvno, o2, tim, wind, lte, outsourcing, ovi, iden, telefonica, yoigo, 3, play, UK


Telefonica in Palm Pre Talks - Looks to Rebrand

Spain's Telefonica has decided to consolidate its consumer brands around movistar and O2 - retaining the Telefonica name purely for the corporate operations, reports the El Pais newspaper. The company already runs most of its mobile networks under the movistar brands, but still has a few under the Telefonica name.  more

Related Tags: smartphone, vodafone, o2, telefonica, palm-pre, palm, vivo, Spain


USB Modem Cost for 3G Connections in Latin America More Than US$53

Signals Telecom Consulting has published a report which analyzes the offer of Internet access via 3G connections from 20 mobile operators in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela. One important differentiation factor in unlimited packages is the type of device used to gain access to the network.  more

Related Tags: 3g, signals-telecom-consulting, personal, telcel, iusacell, Argentina


Gemalto to Embed Windows Live Messenger in SIM Cards

Microsoft and smart-card vendor, Gemalto have announced they are collaborating to offer Windows Live Messenger services to the mass market of mobile subscribers through a new Windows Live Messenger client application that comes pre-installed on phone Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. The Gemalto application, named SIMessenger, is the world's first Microsoft-certified instant messaging SIM client solution.  more

Related Tags: sim-card, gemalto, microsoft, sim, wind, instant-messaging, oi, windows, windows-live


Mexico - 75 million Mark Passed, 75% Penetration Beckons

The Mexican mobile market surpassed the 75m mark during Q3 08 to finish the quarter with just under 75.7m customers. In proportionate terms, annual growth continued the decline that began in Q3 07, although the rate of 17.2% was still a reasonably strong figure. At the end of the quarter penetration stood at 68.6%, up 9.4pp annually, and it thus seems a near- certainty that the 75% mark will be reached during 2009.  more

Related Tags: arpu, cdma, telefonica, telcel, iusacell, Mexico


Mobile Number Portability Rates Stable in Spain

Spain's telecoms regulator, the CMT has reported that mobile number portability has remained roughly stable at around 300,000 per month, with 338,361 numbers ported in the month of October. This is a 5.9% rise on the same month a yeat ago.  more

Related Tags: orange, vodafone, mvno, cmt, Spain


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