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TomTom expands Latin America coverage

TomTom has announced it is expanding its footprint in Latin America to encompass coverage of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, French Guiana, the French Overseas Territories and Venezuela. By broadening map coverage in this strategic region, the company says it is equipping industry partners with high quality content to enable location-based services.
April 20, 2012 Read time: 1 min
RSS1692 TomTom has announced it is expanding its footprint in Latin America to encompass coverage of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, French Guiana, the French Overseas Territories and Venezuela. By broadening map coverage in this strategic region, the company says it is equipping industry partners with high quality content to enable location-based services.

"TomTom is committed to delivering the most up-to-date location and navigation content available globally to our industry partners," said Maarten van Gool, managing director of TomTom Licensing. "The addition of ConnectPlus in Venezuela and Speed Profiles in Brazil is a continuation of TomTom's longstanding mission to provide industry partners with the most complete and accurate global map and enhancement product offering available."

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