America Movil and Samsung to work together on 4.5G in Latin America

Yordan, 19 July 2017

Mexican carrier America Movil and Samsung Electronics are planning to develop 4.5G networks in Mexico and other Latin American countries. The initiative will also bring smart products and solutions to allow customers to get into the Internet of Things.

The partnership consists of supporting the testing of 4.5G technologies on the latest flagships - Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ along with the Galaxy S7 edge. America Movil wants to test the availability of VoLTE, VoWiFi 4x4 MIMO, and other communications technologies.

America Movil plans to test its newly developed 4.5G infrastructure, before launching it officially. The carrier operates in 17 Latin-American countries and eight more in Europe. It also has pre-paid wireless network with over 26M subscribers in the US.

Source

Samsung America Movil

Reader comments

Phoner
22 Jul 2017
LC8

Hahaha a Tracfone CSR from Guatemala?

Anonymous
22 Jul 2017
PHs

Jajaja, you have never come to Latin America. It is true that there is a lot of poor people here, however there is also a lot of people with enough money to purchase the best smartphones. All people I know have smartphones (And they bought them here ...