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Latin America is Still a Hotspot for Mobile Growth, Light Reading's Market Spotlight Finds

Posted on: Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 08:00 CST

New Light Reading Market Spotlight shows that Latin America's largest

markets lag others in mobile penetration

NEW YORK, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- When looking at per-population mobile subscriptions across Latin America, Brazil and Mexico fall shy of the Top 10 markets, according to a new, free Market Spotlight from TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com). The Market Spotlight, which ranks the top 10 Latin American markets by service revenues and per-population service penetrations, shows that the region's two largest markets still hold plenty of expansion opportunity for mobile service providers and handset makers.

The Market Spotlight, "Top 10 Telecom Markets: Latin America," uses data provided by Light Reading's Pyramid Research to capture aspects of the region's operator activity and growth potential, while providing some topical information and comment on aspects of the region's telecom market evolution.

For your free copy of "Top 10 Telecom Markets: Latin America," please see:

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=170506

"The Market Spotlight is part of a Light Reading's Top Telecom Markets series, which will cover all the world's major telecom markets, looking for areas of growth and opportunity," says Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief of Light Reading. "And in Latin America, the growth will come as carriers encourage more mobile data usage, reach more of the population with broadband services, and hone their pay TV offers to fit a more Net-savvy culture."

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Optical Expo, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About Pyramid Research

Pyramid Research (http://www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex demands our clients face in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of emerging markets, emerging technologies, and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for more than 100 countries - a distinction that has remained unmatched for over 20 years. As the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research works with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry's most comprehensive market data, trusted research, and insightful technology analysis.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (techweb.com/aboutus), the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

* 13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the US include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $2.5 billion.

Contact: Amy Averbook Director of Corporate Marketing Light Reading averbook@lightreading.com 212-925-0020 x112

SOURCE Light Reading, Inc.

Source: PR Newswire

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