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Motorola announced that Nextel Argentina, Nextel Brazil and Nextel Mexico will offer the Motorola i1, the first iDEN based push-to-talk Android powered smartphone in Latin America.

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NII Holdings – which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America – has selected Motorola’s Intelligent Optimization Service (IOS) to enhance network efficiency for its iDEN networks in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

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­Telecom Argentina has seen its first quarter profits rise by 17% to P$411 million (US$105 million), while revenues were up by 15% to P$3.25 billion (US$832 million). The mobile subscriber base rose by 12% to reach 16.8 million.

As of the end of March 2010, the company’s mobile subsidiary, Personal almost reached 15 million subscribers in Argentina (+13% or 1.8 million vs. 1Q09). It is worth noting that 473 thousand subscribers were incorporated during 1Q10. Approximately 30% of the overall subscriber base is postpaid (including “Cuentas claras” plans and 3G modems) and 70% is prepaid.

Service revenues (excluding handset sales) reached P$1,875 million (+18% vs. 1Q09) with 34% corresponding to VAS revenues. Also noteworthy is SMS traffic performance, which climbed from a monthly average of 2,047 million messages in 1Q09 to 4,258 million in 1Q10 (+108% vs. 1Q09). Average Monthly Revenue per User (ARPU) increased to approximately P$41 during 1Q10.

The Paraguayan subsidiary, Nucleo’s subscriber base maintained nearly 1.8 million clients (including Internet clients). Prepaid and Postpaid customers represented 88% and 12%, respectively.

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NEC has successfully completed LTE laboratory trials with Telefonica. The trial was rolled out between February and March at Telefonica de Argentina.

NEC provided Telefonica de Argentina labs with a total LTE network system that consisted of core network systems and wireless base stations. Around 100 test items requested by Telefonica were achieved while under a 20 MHz bandwidth, including a maximum throughput of 145 Mbps while connecting with a simulator device.

Additionally, the trials also achieved a maximum throughput of 95 Mbps using an actual LTE terminal. NEC also plans to participate in future Telefonica field trials.

Telmex International, the holding company for Telmex’s Latin American subsidiaries, reported revenues up 24.7 percent to MXN 24.39 billion in the third quarter. Revenue growth was 7.6 percent in Brazil, 25.6 percent in Colombia, 16.3 percent in Argentina, 29.8 percent in Chile, and 17.8 percent in Peru. Group EBITDA climbed 29.7 percent to MXN 6.28 billion. Third-quarter net income reached MXN 2.79 billion, up 141.2 percent from MXN 1.15 billion in the year-earlier period, generating earnings of MXP 0.15 per share, up 150 percent year-on-year. As of the end of September, Telmex International had 14.2 million RGUs, up 5.2 percent versus the second quarter of 2009 and 327.8 percent more than a year earlier.

NII Holdings – which trades as Nextel – has contracted with SmartTrust for SIM and handset OTA management in its networks in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chile.

America Movil reported third-quarter revenues of MXN 99.8 billion, up 16.9 percent from a year earlier. Services revenues rose 19.5 percent on the back of strong data-revenue growth and a continued increase in the subscriber base. The company, which operates under the name Claro, added a net 4.0 million new susbcribers in the third quarter, of which almost a fourth were postpaid, for a total 194.3 million mobile and 3.8 million fixed-line users at the end of September. Brazil led the way with 1.8 million net gains, followed by Tracfone in the US with 712,000, Mexico with 280,000 and Argentina with 236,000. The company said it some signs of economic recovery in several countries during the quarter, especially in South America. However, subscriber growth remained below last year’s levels, apart from at Tracfone. EBITDA came in at MXN 40.4 billion, up 15.9 percent year-on-year, giving a margin similar to a year ago at 40.5 percent. Net profit jumped 50.6 percent to MXN 18.7 billion, driven by a 82.5 percent decline in financing costs thanks to foreign currency movements. America Movil spent MXN 25.5 billion on capital equipment in the first nine months of 2009, helping to take its 3G coverage to 70 percent of the population in its Latin America markets.