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September
Carlos Slim’s Telmex is planning to invest heavily in optical fibre networks to boost residential internet speeds to 20 megabits
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August
Telefónica’s mobile services in Mexico are to be sold in quad-play packages by Megacable
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Media group Clarín has had its telecoms licence cancelled by the government of Argentina
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July
Telefónica is telling squeezed governments, insurers and even relatives about the benefits of electronic health systems. Global Telecoms Business interviews Álvaro Fernández de Araoz, director of the new unit
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Telefónica launches electronic health venture as nations squeeze spending on medical care
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After opposition from the Portuguese government, Telefónica has withdrawn its bid to buy Portugal Telecom’s stake in Vivo of Brazil
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Telefónica CEO César Alierta has launched a electronic health unit that will sell services in 11 countries
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Deal to buy 287 base stations from Telefónica starts American Tower’s operations in Chile
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Telefónica is seeking an €8bn loan to support its offer for Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brazilian operator Vivo
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June
Telefónica has added $1bn to the price but Portugal Telecom still says no
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Telefónica, which is bidding for Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brazilian operator Vivo, has sold most of its own shares in Portugal Telecom
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Telefónica’s Brazilian offshoot Telesp has been offered $17bn funding for its buyout of Portugal Telecom’s share of mobile operator Vivo
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América Móvil has raised a further $3.1bn in debt, on top of $5.6bn it has already raised in 2010
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Megacable is to take over another Mexican cable operator, Grupo Omnicable, and has joined a bid to buy optical fibre on the national electricity grid
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Colombian operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones has won the country’s spectrum auction and plans to start mobile broadband services
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Three companies — Grupo Televisa, Telefónica and Megacable Holdings — have combined to bid for fibre owned by the Mexican state power company
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Telefónica has increased its bid for Portugal Telecom’s share of Brazil’s Vivo from €5.7bn to €6.5bn
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May
Chilean regulator Subtel is to auction frequencies for 4G broadband internet services in 2011
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Grupo Televisa’s consortium says it will invest $107m in fibre infrastructure if it wins a bid for capacity on the state power utility’s network
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América Móvil boss Carlos Slim and 13 other companies are competing for 3G capacity in Mexico’s spectrum auction
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Cable & Wireless’s Lime operation in the Caribbean is building a new high-capacity submarine cable
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Telefónica is increasing its investment in Brazil from $1.86bn in 2009 to $2.77bn this year, the company announced
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Ericsson has won a managed services deal with Telefónica in Brazil, which includes running its network operations centre in São Paulo
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Grupo Televisa’s consortium, including Telefónica and Megacable, has won the government of Mexico’s auction to operate a new fibre national network
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There’s about to be a shakeout in the rapidly developing broadband market in Brazil, following Vivendi’s takeover of GVT after a hotly contested battle with Telefónica
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There’s about to be a shakeout in the rapidly developing broadband market in Brazil. Octavio Sampaio looks at how the two will fight it out
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Telefónica is bidding €5.7bn for Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brasilcel, which would give it control of Brazilian operator Vivo
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Brazilian operator Telebras is being revived by the government to take part in a national broadband programme
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April
Telemar Norte Leste — Oi — has received approval for $1.3bn in debentures from Brazil’s financial regulator
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Telefónica, headed by Cesar Alierta, has been trying out NEC’s LTE equipment on its network in Argentina
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants to revive former telecom monopoly Telebras and is considering setting charges of $131 a month for one megabit service
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Mexican operator pulls out of auction and considers reselling agreement with Telefónica for mobile services
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The Brazilian government is reviving a project to let Telebras manage its broadband internet programme for the poor
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Carlos Slim’s Mexican companies are investing $880m in Claro, their fixed and mobile operations in Peru
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TIM Participacoes, the Brazilian mobile operation of Telecom Italia, will invest $1.42bn in 2010, up from last year’s $1.23bn
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March
The rebranded Cable & Wireless Communications — split off from Cable & Wireless this morning — is looking at asset sales and aquisitions
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Carlos Slim’s América Móvil has raised a further $4 billion in a debt sale, on top of $1.4 billion earlier in March
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Telefónica and two Mexican media groups, Grupo Televisa and Megacable Holdings, will work together to bid for access to the Mexican electricity company’s dark fibre
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Brazilian operator Oi plans to invest up to $2.2 billion in capex in 2010, down from the 2009 total of $2.9 billion
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The Indian-Russian company which runs MTS mobile services in India is looking to raise $400m of debt
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The Brazilian government wants Telebrás to manage a programme to build a national fibre network to improve broadband access
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Carlos Slim’s América Móvil has raised $1.17 billion in debt to finance purchase of fixed-line operator Telmex Internacional
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Vivendi is hoping to secure mobile frequency spectrum for its new Brazilian acquisition, GVT
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February
Telefónica is to increase Brazilian investment from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $1.9 billion this year
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Nokia is looking at plans to make mobile phones in Argentina, adding to its nine worldwide plants including two in Latin America
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The government of Peru is planning a $260 million package to stimulate rural investment in mobile telecoms
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Cofetel, the Mexican regulator, is reviewing initial bids for two sections of spectrum, with final bids due in May
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Telefónica is launching cloud services for customers in Latin America, using NEC, following a similar service in Spain
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ZTE is to supply 12 of Telefónica’s operations in central and South America with a range of customised handsets
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Carlos Slim has succeeded in bringing together his Mexican fixed and mobile operations, Telmex and América Móvil
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The Brazilian government is planning to invest over $10 billion in state-owned telco TeleBras
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January
Mobile bandwidth auctions to mark beginning of competition in Costa Rica
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Telefónica is to invest $1.5 billion in expanding its optical fibre network through the Andean districts of Peru
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A family group is buying a 20% stake in Liberty Media’s Chilean cable and broadband operator, VTR
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Nextel Mexico, owned by NII in the US, is to bid for 3G spectrum in the country’s forthcoming auction
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Auditors working for Oi have increased their estimates of the potential cost of lawsuits facing Brasil Telecom and so Oi will recalculate the price of a share takeover
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Telecom Italia is saying that the government of Argentina is being unjust in requiring it to divest its stake in Telecom Argentina. Telefónica, which owns a large stake in Telecom Italia, is also active in Argentina
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Carlos Slim is planning to bring together his Mexican fixed, mobile and international phone companies with a $21 billion offer by América Móvil for Telmex and Telmex Internacional