By Catracha Hondurena on December 3, 2010
communications, education, honduras
General Honduras News
The National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) and the Honduran Telecommunications Company (HONDUTEL) today signed an agreement to provide broadband internet to the university. Thousands of students will be using the service during the next enrollment period. Jorge Roberto Maradiaga, dean of the Faculty of Law of the UNAH, reported that with the agreement to […]
By Alma Castro Hernández on November 24, 2010
communications, honduras
Business - Economics
Radio America reports that a number of (unnamed) US companies are interested in investing up to $400 million in Honduras’s Empresa Hondurena de Telecomunicaciones (Hondutel). Allegedly, various proposals are on the table concerning the management of mobile telephony, internet access services, fibre-optic cabling and power exchanges to help the state-backed company recover financially. International investors […]
By Catracha Hondurena on September 16, 2010
communications, honduras
Business - Economics
Authorities in the Honduran Telecommunications Company (HONDUTEL) have signed an agreement with a company specializing in recovering debt. With the signing of the agreement, Romeo Vasquez Velasquez seeks to recover arrears that users have with the state telecommunications company, amounting to 500 million Lempiras. The agreement states that if a person is indebted to Hondutel […]
By Catracha Hondurena on July 1, 2010
communications, digicel, honduras
Business - Economics
Company head Denis O’Brien has invested $450 million (€360 million) in Honduras since Digicel’s launch in late 2008, and is going head-to-head with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s mobile operation for market share. Digicel Honduras is open for business, according to its head office in Jamaica. “To be clear, Digicel is not reducing its retail footprint […]
By Catracha Hondurena on July 1, 2010
communications
Business - Economics
Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom (STO:MICSDB) said Thursday it had agreed to take over the entire share capital of Celtel, its subsidiary in Honduras. Under the agreement, Millicom’s local partner gave the company an unconditional call option for his 33% Celtel stake for the next five years, while Millicom has granted its partner a five-year put […]