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Movistar Chile to launch IPTV service in March

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Movistar will launch IPTV services in Chile in March. The service will be provided in combination with the operator’s Banda Ancha Premium service with speeds of up to 40 Mbps, Diario Financiero reports, citing unnamed company sources.

Movistar’s IPTV service will initially be available in the Santiago capital area, to be gradually expanded across the country. Subscribers will receive a set top box with the Microsoft Mediaroom platform, which allows users to store 250 GB of content and record movies and series. Subscribers will be able to access around 300 channels in SD and HD format.

Telefonica Argentina rebrands as Movistar

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Telefónica has expanded its Movistar rebranding process to Argentina. Telefonica’s fixed and mobile services and products in Argentina will be marketed under the Movistar brand name. The rebranding process is scheduled for completion in Argentina in 2012, El Cronista reports, citing Ramon Ponce Gil, corporate communications director at Telefónica de Argentina S.A.

Telefonica has already adopted the Movistar institutional brand identity in Uruguay, Peru and Venezuela, and will progressively introduce it across all its operations in Europe and Latin America.

Movistar currently serves around 16 million mobile customers, 1.5 million Speedy internet subscribers, and 5 million fixed telephony users in Argentina.

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Viettel wins mobile licence in Peru

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Vietnamese military-run mobile operator Viettel has won Peru’s fourth mobile operator licence.  The company plans to invest around USD 27 million in the new network and begin operations in the first half of this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Viettel will be joining Claro, Movistar, and Nextel del Peru in the mobile market, with a licence in the 1900MHz band.

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Telefonica Moviles Chile selects Combra for Network Optimization

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­Comba Telecom Systems has been selected by Telefónica Móviles Chile S.A to supply a network optimization solution to manage and optimize its multi-vendor remote electrical tilt (RET) antennas in its network. The project is notable in being the first ever RET supervision system implemented in Latin America.

Working with local partner, Interexport Chile, Comba’s solution will include the provision of antenna remote control units (RCUs), central control units (CCUs) to interface with multiple RET antennas, and installation of Comba’s proprietary Comba Electrical Tilt Software (COMETS) that allows remote management of the antennas from a single interface and seamlessly integrates with major third party network status management tools to close the optimization cycle efficiently.

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Telefonica to adopt Movistar brand from 1 May – report

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Telefonica will roll out its rebranding process on 1 May, Europa Press reports, citing market sources.

Telefonica will rebrand its mobile operations, using exclusively the Movistar commercial brand name across Spain and Latin America. Telefonica will thus continue the rebranding process which the company started in Chile in October 2009. Telefonica Chile S.A. was the first company unit to replace the commercial name of Telefonica by Movistar.

O2 will remain Telefonica’s commercial brand name for northern European operations, including fixed and mobile telephony services. The operator will continue using the Telefonica brand name exclusively for institutional purposes, to address employees, investors, for corporate social responsibility activities, as well as for sponsorship, patronage and social programs.

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Movistar goes to court, fights deactivation of unregistered mobile numbers

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Telefónica Móviles México has started a legal action to obtain a court order against the deactivation of lines that were not registered in the Mobile Phone Users National Registry (Renaut), local newspaper El Universal reports.

America Movil, via its Mexican unit Telcel, has recently obtained a provisional court order against the suspension of unregistered mobile lines.

 On 9 April, Telefónica Móviles México announced it will maintain the unregistered mobile phone lines active, even after the 10 April deadline, and that – if necessary – it will go to court in defence of its subscribers. However, Mexican telecommunications regulator Cofetel urged Movistar to comply with the law and suspend service to mobile customers who have not registered their numbers in the Renaut database by 10 April, or face penalties. Telefónica Móviles México now hopes to obtain a provisional court order absolving it from cutting off service to customers who have not provided proof of identity.

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