NII Holdings has announced that BlackBerry Curve 8350i will be available for users for Nextel Argentina, Nextel Brazil, Nextel Mexico and Nextel Peru. This phone… + view full entry

As beleaguered Sprint continues to seek a buyer for its Nextel unit, the Wall Street Journal reports interest from Latin American carrier NII Holdings along with several private equity firms, including Cerberus Capital Management LP. Reston, Va.-based NII is presently considered the frontrunner in the Nextel negotiations--the firm was once the international division of Nextel but now operates inde...

Sprint Nextel is looking for bidders for its Nextel unit, and may have found a few suitors already, people close to the negotiations said, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, Sprint is looking to sell off the Nextel unit, which it acquired in 2005, along with its iDEN network. Two possible bidders may be Latin American carrier NII Holdings and the private-equ...

NeoMedia Technologies, the global leader in camera-initiated barcode transactions for mobile devices, has partnered with Iusacell and signed a cooperative agreement to bring 2D barcodes to Mexico. Iusacell, Mexico's #3 mobile operator, has more than 4.3 million subscribers and provides cellular services to 90% of Mexico's population, including Mexico City. The company also offers local a...

BlackBerry Curve 8350i, the smartphone that should be launched by Sprint in the US any time now, will also be released in Latin America. Research in Motion and NII Holdings today announced that the new handset will hit, in early 2009, the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. The Curve 8350i will be launched

NII Holdings, the Latin American iDEN specialist, has matched the record customer intake seen in Q2, adding 395k subscribers to take its total to 5.84m.

NII Holdings and Research In Motion announced earlier this week that Nextel Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru would launch the BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone during the first quarter of 2009. The BlackBerry Curve 8350i will be the first smartphone in Latin America to offer the Push-to-Talk service, International Direct Connect and Wi-Fi capa...

[CN+] NII Holdings said Wednesday that it appointed Raymond P. Dolan to serve as a new director, filling a vacancy in the class of directors whose current terms expire in 2009.

As Nextel continues to hemorrhage customers, Sprint is still trying to push it (and the accumulated debts) on someone else. According to the WSJ, they’ve received a handful of inquiries as of late. Amongst those said to be interested are Latin American iDEN carrier NII, and private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. Just three years

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and NII Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: NIHD), one of the world’s leading providers of fully integrated mobile communication services designed to meet the needs of customers, today announced the commercial launch of… Read Original Post Here