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MIC completes Amnet’s acquisition for USD510 million (Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica)

  • October 3rd, 2008
  • 6:15 am

Millicom International Cellular announces the completion of Amnet Telecommunications Holding Limited’s acquisition. MIC acquired 100% of Amnet for USD510 million, following the agreement initially announced in July.
Amnet is a provider of broadband and cable television services in Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador, provides fixed line telephony in El Salvador and Honduras, and provides corporate data services in the aforementioned countries as well as Guatemala and Nicaragua.

   

Intelfon plans to invest USD75 million for network expansion (El Salvador)

  • September 8th, 2008
  • 11:51 am

Intelfon, the digital trunking mobile operator will be investing USD75 million for the expansion of it’s network based in El Salvador and the recently launched operations in Guatemala. The iDEN-based operator is also looking forward for the launch of it’s services under its ‘RED’ banner in Nicaragua and Honduras, after the complete establishment of operations in Guatemala.

   

Millicom launches 3G services in Guatemala, Honduras and Bolivia

  • September 1st, 2008
  • 6:00 am

Millicom, the global teleco, announces the launch of 3G services in Guatemala, Honduras and Bolivia. The launches in Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia will be followed before the end of this year, with which the roll-out of 3G across all six of its markets in Latin America will be completed. Millicom is providing the full portfolio of 3G services including high speed mobile broadband, internet access for mobilecustomers via laptop, TV on mobile handsets, music and video downloads and video calling.
“The launch of 3G services in Latin America is the first step in the process of meeting the needs of our higher ARPU customers for broadband services. Broadband is expected to be a significant growth segment in these markets and one which we expect will be an important driver to our businesses going forward.”  says Marc Beuls, President and CEO of Millicom.

   

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.

   

Digicel, Telemovil and Claro in running for Panama licence (El Salvador)

  • January 19th, 2008
  • 6:50 am

Digicel, Telemovil El Salvador and Claro will take part in bidding to offer new mobile services in Panama, reports local paper Prensa. The National Authority for Public Services confirmed that Caribbean operator Digicel, Milicom subsidiary Telemovil and America Movil’s Claro had made it to the next stage of bidding and would have to present offers by 3 April. The winning candidate to use the spectrum on offer will be announced on 14 April. A fourth company, Wirefree Services Panama, which is based in France, was rejected, said the authority.

   

LatiNode expands VoIP coverage to Guatemala, Honduras

  • August 2nd, 2007
  • 2:41 pm

US-based voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) specialist LatiNode says it has launched its CrossFone residential service in Guatemala and Honduras, expanding its footprint in the Latin American region. LatiNode CEO Jorge Granados told BNamericas that his company now plans to expand the business model it launched successfully in Argentina three years ago to include new markets such as El Salvador and Nicaragua – although its two-year timeframe is subject to change. In Guatemala the company is planning to offer broadband services in addition to its core retail business: pre-paid calling and unlimited use VoIP subscription. In Honduras, where local telecoms laws require all DLD traffic to go through the country’s incumbent Hondutel, CrossFone is fully licensed as a ‘sub-operator’ of the telco, in compliance with Honduran law.
Meanwhile, in Argentina itself LatiNode now plans to extend its service portfolio to a triple-play offering through partnerships with local cablecos.

   
 

 

 

 

Ericsson provides Digicel’s Latin American EDGE

  • January 22nd, 2007
  • 10:54 am

Telegeography writes…Swedish vendor Ericsson has been contracted by pan-Caribbean operator Digicel Group to provide nationwide GPRS/EDGE networks in El Salvador and Guatemala, with commercial deployment expected in the next three months. Digicel, based in Jamaica and backed by Irish capital, purchased the Salvadoran cellco Digicel (no relation) in October last year for an undisclosed sum, gaining a GSM network and an estimated 222,000 subscribers in El Salvador, plus an unused GSM licence in neighbouring Guatemala. Digicel’s planned network in El Salvador will be the country’s most advanced; currently only Telefónica’s Movistar operates a GPRS network, which is not EDGE-ready. The technological competition in Guatemala may be stiffer; Millicom’s Comcel has operated a GPRS/EDGE network since August 2005 and has close to two million subscribers, and Telefónica’s Movistar commercially launched a 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network a month later.