Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

Ericsson has been awarded a GSM/EDGE contract by Digicel Group in Honduras, making Ericsson the preferred supplier for Digicel’s operations in the Caribbean, El Salvador and now in Honduras.

Under the agreement Ericsson will be the sole supplier of a GSM/EDGE network including core network, radio access and microwave transmission. It will provide subscribers with access to a reliable and robust network as well as services such as GPRS/EDGE mobile internet access, per-second billing and international roaming. The deal also includes Ericsson’s Mobile Softswitch Solution, which is capable of carrying large volumes of voice traffic in a state-of-the-art network architecture.

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Police say that Honduras’ top prosecutor has been shot by his bodyguard — apparently by accident.

National police chief Ambrosio Ordonez says Leonidas Rosa’s bodyguard was cleaning his weapon when it unexpectedly fired. The bullet ricocheted off the floor and grazed Rosa’s leg as he got in his car to go to work Monday.

Rosa was being treated at a local hospital.

He has come under intense criticism recently. Five attorneys leading a hunger strike accused Rosa of being corrupt, and nationwide protests insisted on his resignation.

Rosa denied those allegations, and the government refused to force him to step down.

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Honduras is summoning leaders of Central American countries to a regional summit on climate change.

The meeting, scheduled for May 26-28 in the country’s northern city of San Pedro Sula, about 178.64 km away from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, is designed to evaluate the climate change’s impact on the regional economy and people’s livelihood and to boost cooperation on environmental protection, said a spokesman for the president’s office.

Belize’s prime minister and presidents from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are expected to attend the summit.

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