Author: Marceli Passoni
Press release: Big appetite for data services will drive Latam growth in 2013
LatAm mobile market to grow by over 7% this year Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that the LatAm mobile market will grow 7.1% this year, ending 2013 with 742 million mobile subscriptions. While many developed mobile markets are struggling to continue growing, because of the deterioration of economic conditions, Latin America’s mobile market will prosper… Read more
Excluding Claro from participating in the LTE spectrum auction is counterproductive
Despite all the efforts of the Colombian ICT ministry Mintic to award LTE spectrum in December, the timescale may be ambitious considering the current debate about the participation of Claro, the country’s dominant mobile operator, in the tender. Initially scheduled for September, the spectrum auction was postponed due to concerns that Claro could extend its… Read more
Press release: LTE will be launched by 60% of operators in Latin America by 2013, Informa Telecoms & Media survey finds
• 30% of operators surveyed in Latin America plan to launch LTE in 2012 and 32.5% in 2013 • Informa forecasts 58.6 million LTE subscribers in the region by 2017 • Informa analysts Marceli Passoni and Ari Lopes to present new research at Andicom The majority of operators in Latin America plan to launch LTE… Read more
High taxes and limited 3G coverage could keep M2M from taking off in Brazil, says Marceli Passoni