Articles tagged with: Rural and Telefonica

Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services

..olve to be converted into a complement of cabled accesses and WiFi Hot Spots; in rural areas they will be transformed into the principal telecommunications backbone, positioning themselves as the primary networks for telephony and Internet acce more

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Telefonica and Nokia partner to mobilize education in Latin America

..ucational quality through ICT application to learning processes in some of their rural schools without fixed broadband connectivity. Proniņo is a program that contributes to the elimination of child labor through quality education, reaching in more

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Tower Sharing Could Save $8 Billion Over 5 Years in MEA Region

.. in order to upgrade technologies and capacity as well as population coverage, especially in rural Africa. An extra 100,000 towers are expected to be rolled out in the next 5 years. "Network sharing is not a recent trend, but the current e more

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Digicel Plans $334 Million Investment in Panama

..aid that the mobile operator is daunted by the high cost of building out the required rural network in Panama. The Digicel Group owns 75% of Digicel Panama, with the remaining stake being held by the Bettsak Family, a local business group. The  more

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