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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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Brazilian mobile network operator, Vivo Participacoes saw its 3rd quarter net profit jump by 154% to R$ 340 million (US$197 million), largely due to lower borrowing costs. Revenues were up by 4% to R$ 3.79 billion (US$2.2 billion).

 In 3Q09, Vivo managed to attracted just over 2 million new customers. In September, Vivo‘s customer base reached 48.85 million customers, increasing its general market share to 29.4% and post-paid market share to 31.4%. The GSM/WCDMA operation recorded more than 39.4 million subscribers, representing 80.7% of the total customer base.

The customer base grew 15.5% in the quarter when compared to the same period of last year. Vivo originated from the merger of several Brazilian mobile phone operations under a joint-venture owned equally by Portugal Telecom and Spain’s Telefónica.

Vivo Participações (VIVO) account record in EMAT.

Telefonica has raised its unsolicited offer for Brazilian broadband operator GVT by 5.2 percent to BRL 50.50 per share. The bid increase aims to “ensure the success of the offer and reinforce Telesp‘s intention” to buy GVT, the company said. Telefonica‘s previous offer of BRL 48 per share was already higher than an earlier bid of BRL 42 per share from Vivendi. GVT‘s shareholders have called for a minimum offer of BRL 48 cash. At the new price, Telefonica’s offer values the Brazilian operator at EUR 2.7 billion.

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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.