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America Movil offers $6.5 Billion for Outstanding Telmex Shares

Latin American telecoms giant, America Movil has offered to pay US$6.5 billion to buy the 40.4 percent of the Mexican landline network, telmex that the company does not already own.  more

Related Tags: america-movil, carlos-slim


America Movil, Telmex to invest $880 mn in Peru through 2012

Lima, A­pr 17 (EFE).- Wireless operator America Movil and fixed-line company telmex Internacional - both controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim - plan to make $880 million in infrastructure investments in Peru through 2012, the head of America Movil's Peruvian unit, Humberto Chavez, said. more

Related Tags: america-movil, carlos-slim, fiber-optic, video, Peru


Should America Móvil and Telefónica be wary of a quad-play entrant in Mexico?

­Opinion by Daniel Jones, Partner, Onda Analytics

Mexico's current spectrum auction has set off a change in the industry dynamics that could well have a big impact on major industry players, including Grupo Televisa, Telefónica and Carlos Slim's soon to be merged entities, telmex and America Móvil. Televisa's cable ARPU is over three times Telefónica's mobile ARPU for 2009, according to numbers announced on Friday, and it will aim to use mobile as a means of attracting current mobile operators' customers to its cable packages.  more

Related Tags: grupo-televisa, telefonica, america-movil.-, televisa, auction, Mexico


America Movil Seeks Control of Telmex Internacional

Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim is looking to consolidate his telecoms assets by merging his Latin American mobile arm, America Movil with the fixed line operator, telmex Internacional, which operates telephone and cable-TV networks in Brazil, Colombia and five other South American nations.  more

Related Tags: carlos-slim, america-movil, Mexico


Latin America Losses from VoIP to Exceed US$18.4 Billion by 2014

Landline and mobile telephony losses from VoIP are expected to exceed US$18.4 billion by 2014 in Latin America, reports local research house, Signals Telecom Consulting. Their report also expects that the regional FTTx market will record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.64% in the number of homes passed in the 2009-2014 period. Launch of DOCSIS 3.0 services by CATV operators in Latin America will drive the deployment of VDSL and FTTx solutions.  more

Related Tags: voip, 4g, rio-de-janeiro, globalcom, dish-networks, dish-networks, Brazil


Spectrum Auctions in Latin America Will Trigger Massive Broadband Subscription Growth

3G and WiMax spectrum auctions in Latin America will trigger massive broadband subscription growth, from 9 percent at year-end 2008 to 70 percent at year-end 2014, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.  more

Related Tags: 3g, wimax, ict, pyramid-research, bandwidth, latin-america


Top 22 Operators Account for 50% of Total WiMAX Subscribers

The top 22 WiMAX operators worldwide will contribute nearly 2.5 million subscribers by the end of 2009 - up from 1.24 million today - and close to 4 million by the end of 2010 according to the latest research report from Maravedis.  more

Related Tags: wimax, arpu, ict, itu, clearwire, tim, lte, maravedis, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, far-eastone, compete, dongles, microwave, bsnl, uq-communications, femtocells, partner, bandwidth, usb


Lat-Am Telecoms Operators Well Places to Maintain Credit Ratings

Fitch Ratings has issued a report on Latin America Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) industry, which indicates that most of the companies in the TMT sector within the region are well positioned to maintain stable credit profiles, aided by strong cash generation, low to moderate leverage and favorable debt maturity profiles.  more

Related Tags: itu, fitch-ratings, number-portability, latin-america, television


Mexican Telecommunications Industry Propels Economic Growth in Mexico

Between 1990 and 2007, the telecommunications sector grew almost five times faster than the economy in Mexico and has gone a long way in reducing the economic and social difficulties in this country. Buoyed by dynamic technological progress in recent years, the telecommunications sector has attracted increased investment and productivity, providing further momentum to the economy.  more

Related Tags: compete, number-portability, interoperability, triple-play, pace, interconnection, Mexico


Number Portability Outlook in Latin America and the Caribbean

Number portability (NP) is a policy that was included in regulatory frameworks during the process of opening up fixed telephony markets in Latin America at the end of the 1990's, or more recently, via Free Trade agreements signed with the U.S. In both cases, the implementation of NP has not been obligatory, meaning that specific regulation is required. Furthermore, this should be understood only as an expression of good will until market evolution justifies the addition of this service offering. Prior to the launch of Number Portability  in Mexico, in July of 2008, this policy was only in place in Puerto Rico. This is because, as a territory of the U.S., it is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  more

Related Tags: signals-telecom-consulting, number-portability, telcel, federal-communications-commission, latin-america, congestion, virgin, caribbean, Mexico


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