Movistar Peru has announced it will commercially launch its LTE services on 2 January 2014. The offer will initially be available in seven districts of the Lima region, namely Cercado de Lima, San Miguel, Surco, San Borja, Miraflores, San Isidro and La Molina. Movistar has also unveiled it 4G tariff plan offering, which includes packages with prices ranging between PEN 99.9 and PEN 319.9 per month.
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Entel Chile makes offer for Nextel Peru
Entel, the Chilean based mobile network operator is reportedly making plans to acquire the Nextel Peru according to local newspaper, Diario Financiero. NII Holdings which operates the Peruvian base mobile operator under the Nextel Brand plans to sell various of its operations in Latin America.
Entel already has a presence in Peru via its Americatel Peru subsidiary. Americatel provides voice, data and internet services for business customers in the Lima capital area.
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Peru's Handset Imports Exceed US$500 Million
Imports of mobile phones into Peru in the first nine months of this year rose by 24% compared to the previous year – reaching US$544 million.
Citing statistics from Peru’s Foreign Trade (Comex), Peru 21 wrote that the strongest surge in imports was from America Movil which saw its imports nearly double to $196 million.
Telefónica Peru’s imports were $169 million (9% increase), Brightstar Peru $41 million (10%), Celistics Peru, with $35 million (down -22%), and Nextel del Peru, with $33 million ( down -48%).
A study by the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), the number of mobile operating by the end of 2010 exceeded 29 million, representing a growth of 15% over the previous year.
Similarly, figures from the National Survey of Households (Enaho) in September 2011, revealed that 76% of Peruvian families have a cell phone.
Virgin Mobile to invest $300 million in Latin American MVNO's
Virgin Mobile plans to invest USD 300 million in Latin America over the next five years to expand its MVNO business. Virgin Mobile Latin America expects to start offering service in Chile and Colombia this year, before moving into Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Peru, the company’s CEO, Peter Macnee, said in an interview with Bloomberg.
Virgin will buy network space from other operators to avoid having to build its own infrastructure, Macnee added. The company has an agreement to purchase network space from Movistar Colombia and has reached a marketing accord with Valorem’s Cine Colombia movie-theater unit.
Virgin plans to use social media to attract younger customers, the Virgin Mobile executive said. “When you have a high penetration, the challenge for a big network operator is to be all things to all people”. “So when they partner with someone like us, we focus on one thing. We focus on the youth.”, Macnee said.
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Telefonica Peru pays nearly $50 million in back taxes
Telefonica del Peru has paid around USD 49.7 million in back taxes to the country’s Securities Market Superintendency, Peruvian news service Andina re ports.
Back in 2011, the Peruvian tax authority Sunat said Telefonica owes the state at least USD 850 million in taxes and accumulated interest for the 2000/2001 period. The case is currently working its way through Peruvian courts. The dispute is expected to determine Movistar’s mobile concession renewal.
Telefonica and the Peruvian Ministry of Transport and Communications have been negotiating since August 2011 the operator’s mobile license renewal for the next 20 years. The operator’s mobile licence in Lima expired in 2011, while its license for operations in the rest of the country expires this year.
Osiptel cuts price cap for fixed-to-mobile calls by 58%
Peruvian telecommunications regulator Osiptel has reduced the price cap for fixed-to-mobile calls by nearly 58 percent to PEN 0.30 per minute (VAT included).
The proposal applies to Telefonica as dominant operator on the Peruvian fixed telephony ma rket. According to regulator data, Telefonica del Peru currently holds 73 percent of the domestic fixed-line market. The reduced tariff will be applied starting 30 December, for all calls made by Telefonica del Peru fixed-line voice subscribers to national mobile numbers. This tariff has not been regulated up to now and reached PEN 0.72 per minute.
Peruvian Broadband Plan and Spectrum Auction to Fuel Growth
Broadband penetration in Peru is expected to double from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 9.3 percent in 2016, driven by the government’s national broadband plan to bring Internet connectivity via fiber-optic cables to isolated regions, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.
“In 2011, broadband penetration will reach 4.7 percent, still among the lowest in the region just ahead of Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guatemala and Nicaragua,” says Pyramid Research Analyst, Juliana Gomez.
Broadband penetration will be driven by the government’s national broadband plan, which aims to bring Internet connectivity via fiber-optic cables to isolated regions such as the Sierra and Selva. As economic development touches cities outside Lima in the Sierra region of the country, competition for new subscribers will expand the reach of fixed networks. Telefonica and Telmex are both offering double- and triple-play bundles, including fixed telephony, broadband Internet and pay-TV services.
“Given the low penetration of Internet services and the government support for developing broadband networks, broadband has great potential to fuel bundles,” she indicates.
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