Telefonica, one of theworld’s leaders in the telecommunications sector, and MoreMagic Solutions, a leading mobile transactions provider, announced today that U.S. friends and family of Telefonica customers are now able to recharge Telefonica mobile phones throughout Latin America, using MoreMagic Solutions International Roaming Recharge Global Hub. Telefonica operates in twelve Latin American [...]

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced plans to launch the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone in various countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 – a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series – is an [...]

The mobile subscribers in Colombia dipped to 40.82 million at June-end, down 1.4% from 41.41 million at March-end, reports the Colombian antitrust agency.
Telefonica, country’s  second largest mobile operator posted a subscriber base of 9.03 million at the June-end, down from 9.81 million subscribers at March-end. The market share of Telefonica in Colombia is 22.1%, [...]

America Movil, the Latin American mobile operator, will launch the Apple new device iPhone 3G S in six countries across the region by July end.
According to the press release, the company said starting July 31 the iPhone 3GS will be available in Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic.

Colombian operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones has pre-launched mobile services on the Spanish market, under the Orbitel brand name it no longer uses in Colombia. The operator will provide MVNO services in Spain leveraging Vodafone’s network. The service targets the Latin American community living in Spain, who can now make calls to their native countries [...]

Movistar has introduced an international long-distance voice call promotion. The prepay and postpaid subscribers will be charged ECS 0.11 (VAT included) per minute for calls between 19:00 hours and 6:59 hours. The offer lasts 19th June. The discounted tariff applies to international calls to numbers in the Movistar network in Spain, Colombia, US, Peru, [...]

SpinVox, the global leader in voice to content messaging, announced today that the company’s speech-to-text conversion service is being deployed as a network service through an additional 12 countries in Telefónica’s mobile operations across Latin America. Spinvox service will be available to all Telefónica’s mobile customers in the region.
Argentina; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; [...]

Vivacell-MTS, the Armenian mobile operator has expanded its 3G roaming agreements. The company currently offers 3G roaming service to 16 operators across 14 nation:  Egypt, Estonia, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, Macedonia, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Tanzania, Colombia and Sweden.
The operator intends to expand this list further.

Costa Rica’s Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet) will give away three mobile services provision licenses by April 2010. According to a media report, Minaet will establish the spectrum bands and sub-bands to be auctioned. Presently, the government is mulling two options to assign the spectrum.  Minaet will either launch a traditional [...]

Nar Mobile, the Azerbaijani mobile operator has inked a GPRS roaming agreement with Monaco Telecom in Monaco, Tele2 in Estonia and Colombia Movil in Colombia. Nar Mobile at present has 140 roaming agreements with 76 countries worldwide.