Tigo Guatemala Opens Division for Corporate MarketFriday, March 9, 2012 Tigo Business will promote telecommunications services for businesses. The services will include telephone, internet, and data and packet transmissions for web solutions and applications, says Michele Ceschia, director of Corporate Services . TIGO Honduras Will Offer Subscribers Customized Version of Opera MiniWednesday, November 25, 2009 TIGO Honduras will preinstall select handsets with a customized version of mobile web browser Opera Mini. This will allow users to download the customized mobile Web browser over the air from TIGO’s WAP portal, wap.tigo.com.hn, and operamini.com. Opera Mini for TIGO Honduras will feature Spanish menus and customized bookmarks. New Tigo Services in GuatemalaMonday, November 16, 2009 Tigo users will enjoy a customized version of Opera Mini mobile browser. This version of Opera Mini for Tigo features menus in Spanish and more intuitive navigation. Tigo Invested $210 Million in El SalvadorTuesday, July 21, 2009 In the last 10 months, the telecommunications company has invested in improving its technological platform for Internet access. For Tigo, subsidiary of Millicom, its biggest bet has been its fusion with Amnet, announced in May 2009. Globally, the company has invested $510 million, out of which $210 million were in El Salvador. Salvadoran Telecoms in All-Out Commercial WarTuesday, September 21, 2010 Tigo, Claro, Movistar and Digicel have trimmed some of their prices up to 50%, looking for a larger slice of the telecommunications market. They have implemented various promotions, ranging from lower international, land and mobile phone calls, internet access and cable television to cell phones that can be acquired from as low as $7. Honduras: 4G Mobile Band Sold for $24 millionTuesday, October 1, 2013 After reserving frequencies for the state run company Hondutel, Conatel awarded the rest of the band to Tigo and Claro, who will pay $12 million each. Latribuna.hn reported that "The government has sold a license to operate a 4G mobile band worth $24,105,000, reserving a portion for the Honduran Telecommunications Company (Hondutel), so that it can exploit it in the future jointly with a private partner. " Telecomm in El Salvador: $1.9 Billion in 2010Monday, May 3, 2010 A study by Signals Telecom Consulting estimated that in 2015 Salvadoran telecommunications companies will sell more than $1.870 million. “This is because companies have already started to create ‘combos’ with their services (landline, mobile, cable and Internet), in order to increase their revenues and retain more customers”, reported Laprensagrafica.com. Telecoms: Business Upwards in PanamaFriday, November 6, 2020 Between 2018 and 2020, it is estimated that the demand for data services in the fixed and mobile network grew 2.5 times, a rise that can be partly explained by the need to work at a distance and receive educational services online. Because of the spread of covid-19 and the imposition of restrictions on mobility, businesses, workers and consumers have had to migrate to the digital environment at great speed. Internet Market in El SalvadorFriday, January 15, 2010 Fixed phone line (unlimited calls to mobiles), Satellite or Cable TV, Broadband Internet and a free Dell Laptop from $37 per month. In the first half of 2008, there were 107.142 Internet users in El Salvador. One year later, there were 140.321, a 31% increase. Guatemala: Upcoming Battle In Mobile InternetMonday, February 22, 2010 In 2008, only 6 out of each 100 persons had internet access in Guatemala. The situation seems poised to change with the current competition in the 3G mobile market. 4 companies offer 21 different plans for wireless internet access, via devices containing a SIM card similar to those used by mobile cell phones, only that these devices only send and receive data using the same networks as mobile phones. Optical fiber Speeds Ahead in Costa RicaMonday, July 13, 2015 More companies are brining fiber optics to households in the greater metropolitan area of Guanacaste, promising profound changes in the market of fixed internet services. Netsys is one of the companies which will start offering residential fiber optic services in the area of Rohrmoser, while Coopeguanacaste will be focusing on the central districts of Nicoya, Santa Cruz and Carrillo. Telecommunications: Investments in NicaraguaTuesday, May 21, 2019 After Telefónica was acquired by Millicom, the company plans to invest $1.25 billion in the next five years to expand the network and its services to companies in the country. On May 16, Millicom reported that it closed the acquisition of Telefonía Celular de Nicaragua, S.A., the number one mobile operator in the country, in addition to TIGO Nicaragua's existing cable operation. Broadband is Not Very Broad in Costa RicaTuesday, May 12, 2015 The IDB's Broadband Development Index places the country in the 3rd. place in Central America, 12th. in the Americas, and 48th. among the 63 countries in the global ranking. The four pillars are defined, according to the broadband ecosystem (see Annex II). (1) Public policy and strategic vision. (2) Strategic Regulation, (3) Infrastructure (measuring the access elements), and (4) Applications and Training (measuring the adoption and use). 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