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iPhone 3G launches in 20 countries on August 22

  • August 7th, 2008
  • 12:18 pm

The iPhone 3G will be launched in twenty more countries on August 22. All the operators concerned have made their formal announcements. 10 countries are Latin American.It is predicted that SingTel will also join the mix, but the reports are yet to be confirmed.

August 22 releases

    * Argentina - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Chile - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Colombia - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Czech Republic - O2
    * Ecuador - Telefonica and America Movil
    * El Salvador - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Estonia - Eesti Mobii Telefon
    * Guatemala - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Honduras - America Movil
    * Hungary - T-Mobile
    * India - Bharti Airtel and Vodafone
    * Paraguay - America Movil
    * Philippines - GlobeTelecom
    * Peru - Telefonica and America Movil
    * Poland - Orange and Era
    * Romania - Orange
    * Uruguay - Telefonica and America Movil

   

American Movil to begin iPhone sales in 10 countries across Latin America

  • August 7th, 2008
  • 7:23 am

American Movil, largest operator in Latin America, announced that it would begin selling Apple iPhone this month in ten countries of Latin America.

According to American Movil, the new iPhone will be available from August 22 in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

It was in May that the company signed a deal for iPhone distribution across Latin America.

America Movil has already started sale of the device in Mexico and its Brazilian unit Claro is expected to begin sales soon.

   

BlackBerry Bold in Chile to bowl over the users (Chile)

  • August 5th, 2008
  • 7:08 am

The BlackBerry Bold has been launched in Chile and Movistar, Chilean serivce provider has become the first carrier in the world to launch  BlackBerry Bold. The handset is priced at at around $588 for a two-year contract.

   

Alcatel-Lucent deploys GTD’s FTTH network in Chile

  • July 29th, 2008
  • 11:53 am

Alcatel-Lucent to set up a fifth network based on GPON technology, GTD (Chilean telecommunications company) has selected. During the third quarter, installation and deployment of the GPON network is scheduled. GTD Manquehue – which serves residential customers and SMEs for the GTD Group – plans to use Alcatel-Lucent’s technology to deliver advanced broadband services, including HDTV, IPTV, VoD and high-speed internet.

Also, Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON architecture is designed to enable GTD Manquehue to migrate its traditional voice services to VoIP. GTD Manquehue will deploy the Alcatel-Lucent 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fibre-to-the-User and the Alcatel-Lucent 5520 Access Management System for element management.

Telmex reaches 98% WiMAX coverage in Chile (Chile)

  • January 16th, 2008
  • 2:26 pm

Telmex has announced that its WiMAX network now covers 98 percent of the population in Chile. The network reaches 91 percent of the communes in Chile, including Easter Island. Telmex received authorisation a year ago to launch the service and started offering broadband and voice services three months later.

   

Telefonica Chile sees third quarter net profit slide (Chile)

  • October 27th, 2007
  • 11:53 am

Chile’s largest telco by lines in service, Telefonica Chile, has posted a year-on-year 62.5% drop in third quarter net profit to CLP4.95 billion (USD9.9 billion). Revenues remained flat at CLP156 billion. According to BNamericas, CTC attributes the declining profits to a 6.2% increase in operating costs coming from the policy of migrating customers at internet unit Terra to ADSL, and from content purchase agreements to support Telefonica’s TV and triple play business lines. The company ended the quarter with 607,000 ADSL accounts, up 31% year-on-year, translates to a market share of close to 50%. Telephony lines in service fell 3% year-on-year to 2.18 million.

   

 

 

Survey Show Mobile Ads Not as “Trusted” as Other Media

  • October 11th, 2007
  • 11:43 am

A recent global survey by Nielsen has shown that despite all the new forms of advertising that have developed over the years, consumers around the world still place their highest level of trust in other consumers.
Text ads on mobile phones are the least trusted with only 18 % of respondents saying that they would trust them. The survey was conducted among nearly 27,000 internet users across 47 global markets and was aimed at comparing 13 different types of advertising.

“Advertisers around the world are able to reach consumers across an increasingly diverse range of media platforms,” said David McCallum, the global managing director for Nielsen’s Customized Research Services. “And even though new media technologies are playing a role in ‘globalizing’ society, many purchasing decisions are still based on firmly held national and cultural attitudes. Furthermore, given that nothing travels faster than bad news - with estimates that reports of bad experiences outnumber good service reports by as many as 5:1 - the importance of responsive, high quality customer service is yet again highlighted.”

47 Markets Covered: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Thailand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, US and Vietnam.

   

 

Third MVNO licence awarded by Subtel (Chile)

  • September 25th, 2007
  • 3:22 pm

Chilean telecoms regulator Subtel has awarded a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) licence to local investment group Toro Bayo, writes BNamericas, referring to an announcement made in the state’s official gazette, Diario Oficial. The licence will allow Toro Bayo to lease capacity from one of the country’s three mobile service providers and resell it under its own brand. All three mobile network operators -Movistar, Entel and Claro - have objected to the process.

This is the third MVNO licence to be awarded in the last month. Following Telefonica del Sur (Telsur) subsidiary Blue Two Chile was the first receipient, followed by local VoIP provider Dotcom earlier this month.

   
 

 

Dotcom receives MVNO licence (Chile)

  • September 13th, 2007
  • 2:24 pm

Chilean VoIP operator Dotcom has been awarded a 30-year mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) licence, writes BNamericas citing a statement published in the country’s official gazette. The new concession allows Dotcom to lease capacity from mobile network operators and resell the minutes under its own brand name. The licence was issued despite objections from the country’s three mobile companies: Entel PCS, Claro and Movistar Chile.

Formed in 2004, Dotcom offers VoIP and value added internet services, mainly targeting SMEs, according to the company’s website. Chilean Wi-Fi and bluetooth operator Blue Two Chile, a unit of local telco Telsur, was awarded an MVNO licence at the end of last month.

   
 

 

Entel reports 3% profit fall

  • August 7th, 2007
  • 3:04 pm

Chilean telco Entel has reported a 3% decline in net profit to CLP33.45 billion (USD64.3 million) in the second quarter of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006, as a result of the absence of extraordinary non-operating profits of CLP9.9 billion accrued in June 2006 from the sale of Americatel USA and Central America. If the Americatel revenues had not been included in the 1H06 results, Entel’s sales would have increased by 36% in the second quarter of 2007. Second quarter revenues rose 1% to CLP210.9 billion, while EBIT climbed 6% to CLP44.86 billion. Mobile revenues, via its wireless arm Entel PCS, increased 17% to CLP158.87 billion in 2Q07 compared to CLP135.64 billion in the same period last year. The company’s subscriber base rose 15% to 5.29 million giving it a market share of 41%.