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Thursday, 30 November 2006

Broadband speed to be quadrupled

BNamericas, quoting local newspaper La Rebública, reports that Uruguayan incumbent Antel intends to increase the speed of its ADSL service by 400% by 2008. It also plans to launch a 3G W-CDMA network in the first few months of 2007. The announcement was made by Maria Simón, president of the state-owned telco.