Colombian operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) will launch MVNO services on the local market. ETB will provide the service using the Tigo mobile network. The MVNO launch is scheduled between 15 and 27 Janauary 2012, La Republica reports, citing ETB’s commercial VP Juliana Henao Ovalle.
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Huawei says that it will deploy its first LTE network in South America for UNE Colombia. Throughout this first stage of project, UNE will deploy the network in Bogota and Medellin. Also the entire core network will be geared with Huawei equipments.
Huawei will also provide USB modems and smartphones to the company. Details about the contract financials and timeline for the deployment were not disclosed
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The Union Temporal Fibra Optica Colombiana consortium comprising Mexico’s TV Azteca and Total Play has won the National Fibre Optic Project tender in Colombia.
Under the terms of the deal, the consortium will build and maintain a fibre optic network. The contract is worth around USD 670 million. Union Temporal Fibra Optica Colombiana will connect around 753 municipalities to the fibre-optic network, deploying over 15,000 km of fibre cable.
In the tender, Union Temporal Fibra Optica Colombiana competed against groups that included Telmex, ZTE and Telefonica. The network deployment will start in 2012 and is scheduled for completion in 2014.
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Colombian mobile network, UNE says that it has awarded contracts to Huawei and Ericsson to deploy a LTE network.
Phase one of the network rollout was awarded to Huawei, and Ericsson will get phase two of the deployment.
According to a statement from the mobile network, the first phase will be for cities like Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla and Cali. The network is expected to go live in the first quarter of 2012 in Medellín and Bogotá with the other cities later in the year.
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Colombia’s ICT ministry has received four bids in the tender for its National Fibre Optic Project. The programme aims to deploy fibre connections in 400 municipalities across the country.
The bidders are Telmex Colombia; the Fibra Optica Colombiana consortium comprising Total Play and TV Azteca; the Conectividad Para Todos temporary consortium comprising Media Commerce Partners, ZTE, Exicom, and Andinatel; and a temporary consortium comprising Colombia Telecomunicaciones and Telefonica Moviles).
The government plans to invest over COP 415.8 million in the project, via a public-private partnership. The project is expected to expand internet penetration to over 90 percent of the Colombian population. The initiative is part of the Colombian government’s Vive Digital Plan which aims to reach over 8.8 million broadband connections across the country by 2014.
Colombia’s National Fibre Optic Project will be developed in 30 months, and will include various phases. As part of the first phase, the government plans to connect at least 120 municipalities by end-2012, while in the second phase an additional 120 municipalities will receive broadband connections.
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Google has launched AdSense for mobile content in fifteen countries. The fifteen countries include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Slovenia, Thailand, and Turkey.
AdSense for mobile content allows publishers to generate earnings from their mobile webpages using targeted Google ads. Like AdSense for content, Google matches ads to the content of the mobile site. For mobile websites, AdSense will automatically detect the type of phone viewing the site and deliver ads to match.
Group Carso, S.A. de C.V., owned by Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, acquired a 70 per cent interest in Tabasco Oil Company, LLC (TOC), which has an exploration and production concession in Colombia. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
“This marks the entrance of Carso Group into a new sector in Latin America,” reported the daily newspaper El Espectador, citing information released by the group to the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV by its Spanish acronym).
TOC, owned by Geoprocesados, is dedicated to the exploration, production and commercialization of hydrocarbons in Latin America. The company has just one concession in Colombia.
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