A tunnel built to intercept 5,600 Hondutel telephone lines was discovered beneath the street between 4th Avenue and 2nd Street in the Concepcion neighborhood of San Pedro Sula. The tunnel of fraud was located below a shopping area where several small shops sell clothes and other products. Hondutel technicians, the prosecutor on duty, and members […]
Communications in Honduras are better than one would expect based on the country’s other economic indicators. Mobile penetration is about average for Central America and quite high compared with GDP per capita. Fixed-line telephony has been partly liberalized, with long-distance telephony open to competition, but local services are still a monopoly of state-owned Hondutel and […]
Discredited Reich alleges US$2.2 million bribes are linked to Honduran President, Mel Zelaya. A defunct Miami Internet phone company has agreed to pay a US$2 million fine after pleading guilty to paying bribes to officials in Honduras and Yemen in exchange for favorable interconnection rates. Latin Node paid more than $2.2 million in bribes, which […]
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 […]