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It is already effective in Brazil, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Ecuador and in the following months, other countries will be added. Changes of operators vary by 1% of total number of fixed and mobile telephony users in average.

Need of bridging digital gap leads governments to give priority to plans boosting broadband Internet access to the majority of the population.

Both operators are competing to become strategic partners of the Ecuadorian mobile operator. Investments may be a defining issue for the election.

During the fourth quarter, the company will launch this cellphone in Latin America, specially targeted to "socialnetworkers". América Móvil will sell it under the brand "Dext"

Tomorrow the company will launch the service in Mexico and compete for Triple Play in Central America and the Caribbean. In 2007 the company of Carlos Slim added 157.3 million customers and earned US$ 5,37 bn.

The technology is necessary but not sufficient for the business to skyrocket. It will require to train users in new services.

Improvements in band width aimed at new services and contents opens the unexploited field by advertising. However, today there is no precise model ensuring benefits to all interested parties.

Growth in traffic and in value-added will increase dramatically the broadband demand, reason why new bands will be required and the use of available spectrum will be defined.

The average premiums paid were of 86.67%. Three main operators acquired licenses in almost all the regions. Nextel was not able to acquire any of the 44 lots.

For Huawei, operators should reduce their costs and government, taxes. Multiplayer games will generate a global revenue of US$ 7.2 billion by 2010.

Without a doubt the economic crisis, which we are fortunately coming out of, affected all socioeconomic sectors, all countries, markets and industries. The telecommunications sector did not go unscathed.

As Chairman of GSMA Latin America, I am pleased to present the third edition of GSMA LA Vision, which this year contains articles that are of great interest to the entire mobile telephone industry.