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Telefonica Contracts Syniverse to Accelerate Roaming Deployments

Telefónica has selected Syniverse Technologies as its exclusive provider of roaming business management services for 11 of its properties across Latin America. Through Syniverse's GAIN Roaming Business Management Services, Syniverse will work directly with these operators to speed up the implementation of hundreds of roaming agreements.  more

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Telefonica and Boingo Sign Deal for Global Wi-Fi Access

Wi-Fi roaming service provider, Boingo Wireless has inked a deal to add telefonica to its growing Boingo Roaming Network, giving Boingo members access to nearly 2,600 incremental hotspots. Additionally, telefonica customers will be able to login to 7,000 Boingo hotspots throughout the world, including more than 20 of the top airports in North America.  more

Related Tags: wi-fi, hotspots, airports, boingo-wireless, connect, Spain


Writing on the wall for CDMA in Latin America

The number of CDMA mobile customers in CALA (Caribbean and Latin America) has plummeted by almost 13m in the year to 31st March 2008, ending on 50.6m, after a seventh successive quarter of decline in Q1 08. The loss of customers widened to 3.72m in the first three months of 2008, from 1.61m in Q1 2007 and 2.73m in Q1 2007, although this was still below the loss of over 4m incurred in Q3 2007. As a result, the share of the national total for the technology fell from 19.8% to 12.7% - just half the share seen less than three years ago.  more

Related Tags: w-cdma, ev-do, caribbean


Costa Rica: An Imperative for ICE to Implement Defensive Strategies

The recent passage of the General Telecommunications Law (LGT - Ley General de Telecomunicaciones) cleared the way for the entrance of new competitors into the Costa Rica mobile market. Signals Telecom Consulting points out that America Movil, Digicel, Millicom and telefonica are the most important candidates for launching operations in a market that is attractive for various reasons: low mobile teledensity (less than 40%), high ARPU levels (the highest in Central America) and the absence of a prepaid market.  more

Related Tags: arpu, signals-telecom-consulting, mts, america-movil, compete, mobile-internet, ice, rica, cagr, Costa Rica


Telecom Italia 07 Net Profit Drops 19%, Dividend Cut

MILAN -(Dow Jones)- Telecom Italia Thursday said 2007 net profit fell 18.8% from a year earlier, as domestic fixed and mobile revenue came under pressure and non-recurring items of over EUR1 billion hurt core earnings.  more

Related Tags: telecom-italia, swisscom, seven, top-up, termination, tiscali, 02, Italy


EU Sets July Deadline for Data Roaming Cuts

BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- European mobile phone operators must cut how much they charge customers for sending texts or downloading data while traveling abroad by July 1 or incur regulation, the European Union's telecommunications commissioner warned Monday.  more

Related Tags: mobile-data, european-commission, viviane-reding, 3-uk, o2, text-messages, hutchison, hutchison-whampoa, text-message, mobile-world-congress


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