Brazil

Competition for voice services is heating up in Venezuela as 123.com.ve plans to launch a mass market VoIP service in September. The launch will see the company adopt the Alodiga... 2010-08-11

UK-based Vodafone Group is said to be considering investing in Brazil's third largest mobile network operator TIM Brasil and has engaged an unnamed investment bank to arrange the purchase... 2010-08-09

Fixed-line and broadband operator Global Village Telecom (GVT) has launched operations in São Paulo state. The company, which now stretches its presence to 18 states, was acquired... 2010-08-04

Data from Anatel show that 953,000 new pay-TV subscribers came to the market in the first half of 2010, almost the same number added in the whole of 2008. A growing middle class and... 2010-07-27

São Paulo incumbent Telesp, a unit of Spain's Telefónica, is to invest BRL930mn (US$524mn) in its broadband services in 2010. The sum represents around 40% of Telefónica's total... 2010-07-21

A study by DIRSI, an organisation for ICT research and policies in Latin America, shows that Brazil's prepaid subscribers pay the highest rates in the region. Despite Brazil being one... 2010-07-08

Chile's Subtel, the country's regulator, is holding meetings in the Argentine city of Mendoza with other regulators and operators in the Southern Cone region and Brazil to create a... 2010-07-06