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Articles tagged with: Movistar and Telefonica
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: 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
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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, 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, 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, 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, palm-pre, palm, vivo, Spain
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, telcel, iusacell, Mexico
Rate Reductions see Colombia's Mobile Market Grow Significantly in 2008
A new report is claiming that while the Colombian mobile market showed signs of fatigue in 2007, it appears to have undergone a transformation witnessing significant growth over the first half of 2008. The study, from ReportBuyer says that this is due to a number of factors, including the alteration in counting active subscribers introduced in 2007 that saw movistar report strong subscriber losses. However, authors of the report believe the 50% reduction in mobile termination rates enforced from December 2007 has been the primary reason for the increase in mobile use. more
Related Tags: arpu, termination-rates, Colombia
Mexico Q2 2008 - Telcel maintains unparalleled dominance
Mexico has the second largest customer base in South America behind Brazil with 73.45m customers at the end of Q2 08. This is approximately the same size as the UK customer base, although the population of Mexico is almost twice that of the UK, with a figure of just under 110m. This yields a penetration figure of 66.8% at the end of the quarter, up from 57.1% a year earlier. Penetration has been increasing at a steady rate, and if there is no significant slowdown then the 75% mark should be reached during Q2 09. more
Related Tags: arpu, telcel, iusacell, nextel, Mexico
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, grupo-iusacell, america-movil, iusacell, nextel, Mexico