Telebras, the state-run incumbent service provider, is on track to light up new fiber backbone networks in at least three cities by the end of December this year.
Among the cities in the latest buildout phase are Fortaleza, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro…
Telefonica Brazil (NYSE: TEF), including its Telesp subsidiary, plans to debut its Imagenio-branded TV services throughout the country.
Although Telefonica already provides TV services to about 682,000 subscribers in Sao Paulo via Telesp, the Spanish s…
Brazil’s IPTV market growth may be less than stellar, but that could change as the country’s president Dilma Rousseff passed a law that eliminates restrictions on telcos providing pay TV.
This latest move follows new legislation that the country’s sena…
Brazil continues to make progress with its national broadband plan, otherwise known as (Plano Nacional de Banda Larga, PNBL), as its state-owned service provider Telebras is close to naming vendor contracts for the project.
Although a TeleGeography rep…
Chile continues to lead the Latin American region’s Internet penetration and computer ownership, a Nielsen Company report reveals.
In 2010, Chile’s computer ownership rose five points to 57 percent, while Internet penetration rose up to six points year…
Honduras’ dominant telco Hondutel may be getting a helping hand from a number of unnamed U.S.-based telecom companies, reports TeleGeography.
Citing an unconfirmed report from Honduran news journal Radio America, these U.S. companies would like to inve…
You’ll recall that Earthlink’s fortunes collapsed after their wireless MVNO (Helio) flamed out spectacularly, and ISPs were no longer required to provide third party access to next-generation networks. Earthlink tried a lot of ways to get around the incumbent ISP gridlock — from municipal wireless to broadband over powerline — though none of them materialized. [...]
Telefónica Chile is enamored with fiber to the home (FTTH) so much so that it plans to plunk down $2.5 billion over the next four years to build a nationwide, 700,000-home network. Initially, the new FTTH network will connect 50,000 homes in the Biobio region, including the cities of Talcahuano, Los Ángeles, Chillán and Concepción, [...]
IP Telephony needs a hero: Hosted IP continues to face challenges, particularly in gaining the loyalty of the masses. A recent Research and Markets report points out that “Despite the promises of lower capital expenditures, ease of use, and flexibility, hosted IP telephony has failed to gain mass adoption so far.” News release. Cable gains [...]
Hector Osuna, the head of Mexico’s telecom regulator Cofetel, won’t be returning after his term ends this month. After Osuna leaves Cofetel, a regulator that has been unsuccessful in helping to upgrade Mexico’s telecom industry and quell the influence of Carlos Slim’s Telmex (TELMEXL.MX) and America Movil, to focus on political opportunities in Northern Mexico. [...]