Spanish telecoms group Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) reported a first quarter 22 percent rise in profits, boosted by its Latin American mobile phone units. Net income rose to 1.54 billion euros…

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After losing out to its rival O2 last year, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has struck a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in ten countries, reports Reuters. Those…

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Samsung has scored a preloaded deal with CNN International. Starting in June 2008, for a six-month exclusive period, the news broadcaster’s new Java application will be embedded into Samsung handsets…

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The Latino market continues to be an attractive one for the mobile industry, with figures like “3.1 percent of the general population used their mobile devices to watch videos, 6.7…

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The mystery of the missing iPhones has reached a fever pitch, and several pundits including Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster have interpreted the shortage to mean that a 3G model…

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Movida, the Hispanic-market focused MVNO, which we have covered a few times here before, has befallen the same fate as other MVNOs in the industry: it has now filed for…

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Spanish telecoms firm Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) reported fourth quarter earnings today. Fourth quarter profits rose to 1.06 billion euros ($1.6 billion) from 1.04 billion euros a year ago, with sales…

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Growth in the U.S. telecom industry will accelerate a whole percentage point to 9.3 percent in 2008 over last year and is unlikely to be significantly impacted by a broader…

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-- 3UK Launches New Version of YouTube Mobile: 3UK and YouTube have struck a deal in which the network operator will roll out a new, enhanced version of YouTube Mobile…

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-- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Relaunches Mobile Search Service in the UK: Google UK has launched a new search service for mobile phones, which it says will make searching on handsets…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced its biggest carrier deal to date: America Movil, which has 143 million mobile subscribers. The deal will see oneSearch as the default mobile search engine…

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Digital music had a big year in Latin America in 2007 if Billboard is to be believed. There’s no “overall digital music increased this much” figure, but there are some…

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Mobile is the lynch pin of the communications sector, driving its growth and accounting for 53 percent of total telecoms revenues, according to the UK regulator Ofcom in their exhaustive…

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-- The London Underground will reportedly start trials substituting mobile phones for its contactless payment Oyster Card. The trials will involve Nokia, (NYSE: NOK) O2 and Transport for London and…

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Visa has started a few more mobile trials around the world. In Brazil it is trialing remote payments, which lets people make payments on the their mobile phones. In Canada…

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Brazilian telco Oi has announced plans to launch a mobile TV service on November 19 to kick off a series of services for exclusive content across all its platforms, reports…

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People emigrating from Latin America to Spain have changed the music scene—at least the digital music scene, according to Billboard charts. The immigrants are not only buying Latin music, they’re…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched local search services in 15 countries across Latin America, making the information accessable from the main display (on a supported handset). It’s also integrated with…

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Italian mobile entertainment giant Buongiorno has acquired Argentinian company By-Cycle for $5.5 million in cash. By-Cycle operates in Argentina, Uruguay and Peru, and offers both mobile marketing services and content…

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-- Helio has added KushTV to its content line-up. KushTV does original short form programming, such as The Loc Dog Show starring Korn, Perfect Picks with E! Entertainment’s The Olly…

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Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has struck a deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) that will install the search site’s oneSearch mobile web search as the search engine of choice on the telco’s…

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None of this fussing with free market principles first to see what works: The Uruguayan government announced today that it selected the DVB standard for mobile TV services (DVB-H) and…

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--In India, STAR Mobile has inked a deal to embed its mobile application PLUS on Sony Ericsson handsets, reports Mobile Entertainment. Handsets which will be shipped starting October 1st will…

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GoTV has launched a latin music channel, available already on AT&T and with plans to launch on Sprint by late August. It offers original made-for-mobile content with clips ranging from…

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Telefonica is offering €3 billion ($4.1 billion) for Portugal Telecom’s 50 percent stake in their Brazilian mobile JV Vivo. The bid could have a strong element of content consolidation behind…

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