Tag: telecommunications

• Wednesday, August 6th 2025 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands Government opens search for future Telecommunications provider

  

  Following approval by Executive Council, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has opened an international search for future providers of telecommunications. This work, which relates to the period after the end of Sure’s current exclusive license, is being led by FIG’s appointed consultants, Cambridge Management Consulting.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  ARSAT-1 is Argentina's first designed and developed geostationary satellite

  

  The ARSAT-1 is Argentina first domestically designed and developed geostationary communications satellite, and its construction and successful launching, on Thursday, was defined by the government as “historic.”

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 03:02 UTC

  Major setback for Mexican telecommunications tycoon and richest man in the world

  

  Telefonos de Mexico SAB, the country’s largest phone carrier plunged the most in the stock market since December 2008 after the government rejected its application to start offering video services.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 10:09 UTC

  Mexican tycoon plans to invest 1.5 billion USD in Argentine telecommunications

  

  Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, ranked as the world's wealthiest man by Forbes magazine, plans to invest 1.5 billion US dollars over the next two years in Argentina's telecommunications sector, officials said.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2010 - 06:43 UTC

  Bolivia’s first (Chinese built) telecommunications satellite operational by 2014

  

  The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) and the Chinese Great Wall Industry Corporation signed a commercial contract for the construction and launching of the first Bolivian telecommunications satellite, which has been baptized Tupac Katari.