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GSMA LA Plenary Meeting 38: Latin America’s Mobile-Industry Leaders Met in Mexico to Consider Challenges Ahead
Wednesday 12 December, 2012 | English News
With representatives from more than twenty Latin American operators, seven regulatory bodies (including COFETEL and SCT from Mexico) and suppliers for the telecommunications industry, the GSMA Latin American Plenary Meeting 38 was held in Mexico City. The meeting was ...
GSMA and AHCIET studies highlight how lowering taxation on telecoms could benefit Latin American economy
Monday 10 December, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
High Taxes Hinder Economic Growth and Take-up of 3G Mobile Broadband Services Today the GSMA and AHCIET released findings from respective reports ‘Mobile Telephony and Taxation in Latin America’ and ‘Taxation and Telecommunications in Latin America’, both undertaken by ...
Mobile Identity: GSMA to support Latin American operators in unlocking new global opportunity
Friday 23 November, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
As a growing percentage of the world’s population makes greater use of online and digital services, the ability to verify and authenticate users in a secure and convenient manner is becoming an increasingly critical issue for businesses and governments alike. Identity theft ...
Lleida.net exports its certification model to international operators
Friday 19 October, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
By: Sisco Sapena, CEO Lleida.net Lleida.net has been working for over six years in the SMS and MMS messaging market. Thanks to the work and efforts of the Lleida.net team over the years, we have received international recognition and consolidated operations in a number of ...
GSMA Shines Spotlight on Latin American Mobile Market
Tuesday 9 October, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
World’s Leading Operators Convene in Rio for GSMA Board Meeting; GSMA Chairman Franco Bernabè Discusses Key Industry Drivers and Initiatives. The GSMA held its most recent Board meeting in Rio, bringing together leaders from 25 of the world’s largest mobile operators to ...
GSMA report places mobile at the heart of Brazil´s transformation
Tuesday 9 October, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
New Brazil Mobile Observatory Reveals How Increasing Mobile Connectivity, Innovative Mobile Services and World Cup and Olympics Opportunities Will Boost Brazilian Economy and Society. Today the GSMA released its first comprehensive assessment of Brazil’s mobile sector, ...
GSMA LA Roaming Week: Roaming experts summit in Panama
Saturday 22 September, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
High level executives from operators and suppliers of the mobile industry from Latin America and the Caribbean met on September 17 to 21 in the city of Panama for the GSMA LA Roaming Week. the meeting, organized by GSMA Latin America, was essential for the regional ...
Mexican Telecom Regulator recommendation to adopt APT band plan in 700MHz and its implications for Latin America
Friday 21 September, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
Yesterday, Mexican telecoms regulator COFETEL (Federal Commission of Telecommunications) commissioners unanimously decided to adopt the APT (Asia-Pacific Telecomunity) band plan for the 700MHz band for mobile services. This decision is a very relevant milestone for the whole ...
GSMA Latin America Launch Data Roaming Transparency Scheme
Monday 10 September, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
Mobile Operators to Help Consumers Better Understand and Manage Data Usage, Addressing Head-On the Issue of Bill Shock. Today the GSMA announced that more than 40 Latin American mobile network operators (MNOs) have launched a data roaming transparency scheme in the region ...
Mobile Roaming in Latin America
Tuesday 14 August, 2012 | Uncategorized
International mobile roaming is a service that allows mobile users to continue to use their mobile phone or other mobile device to make and receive voice calls and text messages, browse the internet, and send and receive emails, while visiting another country. Within Latin ...
Mexican Government and operators sign an agreement against mobile terminals theft
Tuesday 7 August, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
GSMA LA and mobile operators from Mexico signed an agreement which sets the commitment made on July 17, with the support of the President Calderon and the Secretary of Transport and Telecommunications Pérez-Jácome. The four main mobile operators, with the participation of ...
Mobile and Privacy: Latin American perspectives for a common agenda
Friday 3 August, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
The rise of the smartphone combined with the growth in the mobile internet has brought significant opportunities to consumers and the industry. However, it has also brought much concern over mobile users’ privacy and the security of their personal information. Consumers, ...
Brazil’s Mobile Operators Prepare Today for a Spike in Visitors during World Cup and Olympic Games
Thursday 2 August, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
By: Pablo Mlikota, Senior Vice President, Caribbean and Latin America, Syniverse Any time a market is selected to host a major event like the Olympics or World Cup, news articles often are published about the work to be done to upgrade stadium seating and improve ...
Latin American Mobile Operators commit to combat mobile device theft
Tuesday 17 July, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
Thirteen Latin American mobile operator groups pledge to work together across the region to block the use of stolen devices.
GSMA appoints new Director in Brazil
Thursday 12 July, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
Amadeu Castro Neto, Brazilian mobile industry expert, to represent the GSMA in Brazil. The GSMA is opening a new office in Brasilia, Brazil to meet the growing demands of mobile services in the country. Led by Amadeu Castro, the office will concentrate on key GSMA activities ...
Connected Living Latam Summit: The connected future
Tuesday 3 July, 2012 | English News | Homepage-news-eng
GSMA event addressed the various aspects of connectivity in the everyday lives of people and presented an unprecedented survey on mobile health. With six billion connections, communication over mobile devices has already revolutionized the world and transformed how people ...
Accidental and Border Roaming Solutions and recommendations
Monday 2 July, 2012 | Uncategorized
Latin America is a region of low travel traffic between borders in comparison to Europe or North America. Nevertheless, an important population concentration exists in these zones of the region. 4 % of the population, according to the IIRSA, lives in these zones only a few ...
Roaming Quality
Monday 2 July, 2012 | Uncategorized
The quality of the roaming and long international distance service is perceived by the final customer. However, the mobile operator nowadays can control in an autonomous way only a part of the chain needed to offer the service. In order to carry out a call / SMS / Data ...
International Roaming Best Practices
Monday 2 July, 2012 | Uncategorized
The markets in CALA are very different. There are cases of strong asymmetries and economic and social variables even between neighbouring operators that can distort international roaming services. For example the case of Venezuela-Colombia where due to exchange differences ...
Public Policy Position on Spectrum and Infrastructure Sharing
Thursday 21 June, 2012 | Uncategorized
All countries should have a regulatory framework that enables mobile operators to engage in voluntary sharing of infrastructure and voluntary sharing of spectrum in mobile bands. Mobile operators are strongly in favour of maintaining the concept of exclusive usage rights to ...