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America Movil to launch online TV service in Mexico

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America Movil plans to launch an online service for movies and television shows in Mexico, where the company is banned from using its network to offer traditional TV, Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed person familiar with the company’s strategy.

According to the same source, America Movil is holding off on starting the service until a regulatory ruling on whether showing video on the internet would violate the TV ban. The company would use distribution unit DLA to offer movies and shows as it already does in Argentina and Uruguay.

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America Movil launches App Store in Latin America

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America Movil has launched its iApps Application Stores powered by Appia. The platform aims to bring a comprehensive catalog of apps and games to America Movil subscribers across Latin America. The iApps Application Stores are currently available through America Movil’s operating partners Claro, Comcel, and Telcel in 18 countries across Latin America including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

Appia’s Application Catalog includes thousands of applications and games for Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and Java phones. The iApps Application Stores include both paid and free applications such as social media, news, weather and sports apps in Spanish, English and Portuguese. App developers including Rovio and Gameloft are distributing their app through the iApps Application store, along with Facebook, Electronic Arts, and MocoSpace. Appia’s application marketplace service provides a managed service platform for America Movil’s iApps Application Stores, including the catalog of applications as well as the platform for storefront merchandising and commerce.

America Movil has deployed the Application Stores across its operators in 18 countries, and all stores are integrated with America Movil’s billing and customer care systems.

 

America Movil launches new VAS in the form of IdeasMusik

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America Movil has introduced its online music store dubbed ‘IdeasMusik’. The platform enables users to listen and download music content online. The service is provided in partnership with Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music and Emi Music. The IdeasMusik catalogue currently includes over 15 million songs. Negotiations with these companies lasted more than six months, said Marco Quatorze, director of value added services at America Movil and Telcel, in an interview with CNNExpansion.

Customers can opt for a weekly or monthly subscription, which will be charged to their Telcel or Telmex phone bill, to their credit card, or to IdeasMusik preloaded cards that can be acquired at Sears and Sanborns stores. For MXN 40 per week, IdeasMusik users can either download five songs or access unlimited streaming services. For MXN 75 per month users will receive unlimited streaming, while for a monthly fee of MXN 90 they will be able to download 20 songs. For MXN 150 per month, customers can access unlimited streaming and download 25 songs.

Quatorze also said that Telcel has seen over 10 million song downloads via its Ideas Streaming service launched in Mexico in February 2011. The IdeasMusik service is currently available in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, and will gradually be launched in the other 15 Latin American countries where America Movil operates.

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Q4 Net profits down for America Movil

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America Movil reported fourth-quarter revenues of MXN 182 billion, up 12.3 percent from a year earlier. Mobile revenues rose 15.4 percent, and fixed-line revenues were up 6.8 percent.

Growth was led by mobile data services, up 27 percent on a constant currency basis, as well as expansion in fixed broadband and pay-TV. This helped offset the sharp cuts to termination rates in its home market Mexico. EBITDA rose a slower 3.9 percent to MXN 64.5 billion, hurt by the rate cuts and investments in expansion and marketing, particularly in Brazil. Operating profit was up 15.1 percent to MXN 38.3 billion, helped by lower depreciation.

Net profit fell to MXN 16.3 billion from MXN 25.5 billion a year earlier, due to the weaker peso and higher financing costs after the buy-out of Telmex and share buybacks. Net debt rose to MXN 321 billion from MXN 207 billion at the close of 2010.

The company finished 2011 with a total 299.6 million access lines, up 8.3 percent over the year. Mobile customers grew by 304,000 in the three months to December, slower than previously due to a change in active prepaid definitions in Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador, which resulted in the disconnection of almost 5 million customers.

The postpaid base rose by 1.6 million in the quarter to 34.7 million. The total mobile base numbered 241.8 million at year-end. The number of landlines rose 3.4 percent from a year earlier to 29.4 million, broadband subscribers increased 15.6 percent to 15.1 million and pay-TV customers were up 33.1 percent to 13.4 million.

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America Movil picks Alcatel-Lucent for LTE deployment

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America Movil has selected Alcatel-Lucent provide infrastructure for its LTE/4G network rollout in Latin America. The deployment will Clarostart with America Movil’s Claro unit commercially launching high-speed mobile broadband services to subscribers in Puerto Rico in the coming weeks. Claro’s service offering will use Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE equipment, including its LightRadio product portfolio.

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America Movil increases stake in Telmex to nearly 93%

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America Movil has increased its stake in Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) from 60 percent to nearly 93 percent, following the preliminary results of a shareholder buyout offer.

America Movil currently holds 92.79 percent of Telmex shares after the offer expired on 11 November. Stockholders of America Movil tendered 5.92 billion shares of the unit for MXN 10.50 pesos per share.

America Movil will pay an overall MXN 62.1 billion (approximately USD 4.6 billion) to increase its Telmex stake. The Mexican stock exchange said in a filing that Telmex had been removed from the benchmark IPC index and replaced by shares of food franchiser Alsea, Reuters reports.

 

Telecom Capex Up 6% in 2011 to $310.8 Billion

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Global telecom carrier capex to total $310.8 billion in 2011, up 5.8% over 2010, according to a study by Infonetics Research.

The fastest-growing investment areas among telecom carriers in 2011 has been WiMAX equipment (+27.5%) and video infrastructure (+20.7%). The largest investment areas remain non-telecom/datacom equipment (software, real estate, labor, etc.) and mobile infrastructure, global spending for which is growing 7% and 8.6%, respectively, in 2011 over 2010

“The near-6% increase in global telecom carrier capex we expect in 2011 over 2010 is due in large part to AT&T’s ramping LTE deployments, HSPA+ upgrades, and investments in WiFi hotspots for traffic offload. This offsets Verizon Wireless’ slowing mobile spending since their LTE rollout peaked earlier this year.” said Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile and FMC infrastructure at Infonetics Research.

In the Caribbean and Latin America region, América Móvil and Telefónica, the two telecom giants that control 75% of mobile subscribers there, are preparing their infrastructure to host the soccer World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016,”

Téral adds: “We maintain our view that the sovereign debt crisis that is paralyzing Europe continues to have little impact on our telecom capex forecast. As long as credit remains available to telecoms at a fair price, the ongoing sovereign debt crisis should have little impact on telecommunications equipment spending. Investment plans across world regions suggest mobile broadband and FTTx is the name of the game going forward.”