Latin America
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As the demand for high-speed internet and reliable digital connectivity continues to surge, South America is emerging as a key player in the global subsea cable ecosystem. -
Telefónica’s Venezuela-based subsidiary will pay more than $85.2 million to resolve an investigation by the US Justice Department that it allegedly bribed Venezuelan officials.
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Latin American data centre operator ODATA unveiled plans to construct two facilities in Colombia to provide 144MW of connectivity to the region.
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Nokia and Radiográfica Costarricense SA (RACSA) have deployed Costa Rica’s first standalone 5G (5G SA) network.
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Internet exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX has expanded to Brazil, launching two locations in the South American country.
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Microsoft is continuing its infrastructure spending spree after it announced plans to spend $1.3 billion building out cloud and AI capacity in Mexico.
Forthcoming events
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Too often the conversation around gender parity, centres on the notion of equality, i.e. the state of being equal, or in this context the notion that all people are treated the same. But are there instances where people need to be treated different in order to make things equal – e.g. equity.
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This International Women’s Day it’s time to force change and use the pandemic as a catalyst for thisI like the hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day, #ChooseToChallenge because words are great but actions speak louder. If we want more diversity, we need to force the issue and back up our old arguments with fresh activity and hard evidence that shows our progress.
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Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) president, Martha Suarez has praised Brazil’s Anatel for granting unlicensed access to the complete 5925-7124 MHz band (6GHz band).
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Season 2, episode 8 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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Access Partnership, a global public policy firm for the tech sector, has appointed Allan Ruiz as its new senior advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Nine of the largest global IPX carriers have joined a global initiative to improve the handling of critical IoT traffic, coordinated by the ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF).
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Telefónica Group and global investment group, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), have announced they are building a new fibre wholesale network in Brazil.
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Cataworx, a provider of business-to-business sales automation software, and Nokia have developed an integrated solution, which enables communication service providers to provide instant quotes for optical network connectivity services, with support for dynamic pricing, and empowering their customers to trigger service fulfilment through order orchestration.
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We live in a world of borderless computing on the far edge, the near edge, in the cloud, and in the data center. A traditional hub-and-spoke wide area network (WAN) architecture, with all the compute happening in the data center simply can’t accommodate this anywhere, anytime, any device reality. This is where Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) enters the picture.
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AT&T is open to offers for its Latin American version of DirecTV, the satellite TV unit that private equity group TPG Capital is buying into.
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Data Economy shares five news stories making headlines from around the world.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
