Articles tagged with: Telefonica and Vivo

Telefonica to Increase Brazilian Investment in Mobile Advertising

­Telefónica Digital today announced that it will make a multi million euro investment to kick start its access to the mobile advertising market in Brazil. The investment will use the UK model as a blueprint, with a local team put in place to accelerate the deployment of platforms and capabilities to harness the significant opportunity in Brazil.  more

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Brazil's Vivo Secures $1.7 Billion Loan to Fund Network Expansion

­Brazilian mobile network operator, Vivo has secured a 3 billion-real (US$1.7 billion) loan from the state-controlled national development bank, BNDES.  more

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Telefonica Plans $14.6 Billion Investment in Brazil

­Spain's telefonica has outlined plans to invest over R$24 billion (US$14.6 billion) by 2014 in its Brazilian subsidiary. telefonica's Chairman, César Alierta said that the expenditure would be used to upgrade and expand the network. He made the announcement following a meeting with Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff.  more

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Telefonica Taps Myriad for Mobile Social Networking Services

­Handset software vendor, Myriad Group has announced a new deal to extend its existing partnership with telefonica to provide mobile social networking services to telefonica's Vivo brand. The agreement reinforces Myriad's 5-year partnership with telefonica announced earlier this year, and increases Myriad's addressable market from 80 million to 140 million subscribers across Latin America.  more

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Telecom Italia Shareholder Wants Telefonica to Sell Stake

telefonica's bid to buy out Portugal Telecom's stake in their Brazilian joint venture has triggered a call for the company to sell its indirect stake in Telecom Italia, which also has operations in Brazil.  more

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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

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The Top Operators in Caribbean & LatAm by Subscriber Growth

Between them, the ten fastest growing operators in Latin America and the Caribbean added a total of over 52m new connections over the past year, or around two thirds of the region's 78m total. Quarter on quarter, the bias towards the industry leaders was even more pronounced, with 17.55m of the 19.0m or so new connections happening at the top end of the market. The quarter is somewhat atypical, due to the dismemberment of Telemig, which has boosted the numbers for both Vivo and TNL, but this is a region with an unusual concentration of power.  more

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Brazil's Vivo Still Leads Mobile Market, Claro Catches TIM

SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Vivo Participacoes still leads the Brazilian mobile phone market with a 31.1% share of subscriptions in August but Claro caught up with TIM Participacoes to share second place, with each registering a 25.1% share, according to figures released by telecommunications regulator Anatel.  more

Related Tags: telecom-italia, portugal-telecom, tim, tim-participacoes, claro, vivo-participacoes, Brazil


Brazil Telecom Competition to Heat up on Number Portability

SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil telecommunication operators will see stiff competition get stiffer after the introduction of number portability earlier this week.  more

Related Tags: tim, number-portability, brasil-telecom, tim-participacoes, vivo-participacoes, triple-play, churn, option, true, Brazil


Brazil's SDE to Investigate Local Mobile Operators

SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- The Brazilian Consumer Affairs Division, or SDE, has opened an investigation into colusion on prices among the country's four largest mobile phone operators, it said in a statement late Thursday.  more

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