Brazil

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to lend EUR200mn (US$308mn) to Brazilian mobile operator TIM Celular, a unit of Telecom Italia, and its subsidiary TIM Nordeste in order... 2008-06-05

Swedish equipment manufacturer Ericsson has signed a managed services contract with Telefónica's unit in Brazil. Ericsson will maintain Telesp's fibre optic network in that company's... 2008-05-27

Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies has opened a support services centre in Málaga, Spain. The global technical assistance centre (GTAC) is to provide Spanish-speaking... 2008-05-23

Spain's incumbent operator, Telefónica, has announced its Q108 results, seeing a 1.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in revenues while operating income increased by14.4% since Q107.... 2008-05-14

Chile's Entel PCS has signed a branding agreement with global mobile operator Vodafone to launch an exclusive range of Vodafone products and services. Vodafone already has a partnership... 2008-05-14

Brazilian telecoms operator Brasil Telecom has announced that it is trialling a SIP WiFi version of its fixed-mobile telephony service, Único. The operator also signed a contract... 2008-05-09

Latin America's largest mobile operator, Mexico's América Móvil, has signed a deal with US electronics manufacturer Apple to be the distributor of the latter's iPhone in the... 2008-05-09

Spanish mobile giant Telefónica has said it will launch a mobile banking (m-banking) initiative for its Latin America operations in partnership with the Inter-American Development... 2008-05-07

Argentina's smallest mobile operator, Nextel, has announced it will invest US$463mn in its operations over the next five years. The operator, which is targeted at corporate customers,... 2008-04-29

Latin America's largest mobile operator, América Móvil, has reported a fall in profits for the first quarter of 2008 following the deployment of 3G services in six of its Latin... 2008-04-25