Industry Developments

Paraguayan mobile market leader Tigo, a unit of Luxembourg's Millicom International Cellular, has announced that it has 150,000 subscriptions to its Tigo Cash service. The mobile... 2008-11-27

Mexican regional telecoms operator Marcatel has stated that it will participate in the WiMAX spectrum auction expected to take place in 2009. Regulator Cofetel will auction spectrum... 2008-11-24

Telefónica del Sur (Telsur), a fixed-line operator, has reached an agreement with mobile market leader Movistar to use the latter's network in order to provide mobile services.... 2008-11-18

Municipal utilities operator Emcali is expecting to reach 13,000 IPTV subscribers once it launches the service in Colombia's third largest city, Cali. The fixed-line and broadband... 2008-11-14

Following the approval of its Telemig Celular acquisition, Brazilian mobile market leader Vivo's consolidated net profit increased by 205% year-on-year (y-o-y) to BRL130mn (US$58.5mn)... 2008-11-12

Telefónica Chile has announced that it will double the speed of its broadband services without altering the price of the packages. The news comes just days after the company's... 2008-11-11

UK telecoms operator Cable and Wireless (C&W) has confirmed, alongside its financial results for the first six months of the 2008/2009 financial year, that it is postponing... 2008-11-10

Peru's second largest pay-TV operator, DirecTV, has launched a prepay service following a four-month trial. DirecTV's general manager, Orlando Parodi, highlighted the fact that problems... 2008-11-04

Struggling US mobile operator Sprint Nextel has announced that it will not sell off its push-to-talk (PTT) iDEN network, which it had intended to earlier this year. It is understood... 2008-11-03

Jamaica's telecoms regulatory authority, the Spectrum Management Authority (SMA), has entered the final leg of its journey in the process of awarding frequencies on the 2.5GHz band... 2008-10-30