Latin America
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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.
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Musk calls Brazilian justice 'evil dictator' as legal battle escalates, threatening Starlink's operations in the country
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Nokia has been selected by Claro Argentina to roll out 5G infrastructure throughout the country.
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Millicom and Telefónica have agreed to merge Telefónica Colombia (Coltel) and TigoUne, reducing the number of telecom operators in the country from four to three.
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Nokia and Claro have completed the first stage of Colombia’s largest 5G deployment, covering over 1,000 sites across the nation.
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WOM, the Chilean start-up operator, has filed for bankruptcy in the US.
Forthcoming events
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Capacity Latam has just wrapped up in São Paulo after two days of South America-focused discussion and information sharing. Here are 9 things we learned from the sessions and the networking this year – some that are obvious, and some that might not have been.
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Capacity investigates the opportunities and challenges for digital infrastructure that will arise in Colombia as 5G rollouts get under way.
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ODATA, an Aligned Data Centers company and a provider of data centre services for Latin America, has announced plans to expand its operations in Mexico.
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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence (PoP) in the Ascenty SCL2 data centre in Santiago, Chile.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Mexico by early 2025.
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Telstra International has extended its network into Latin America with a new point of presence (PoP) in Dallas, Texas and collaborating with Axtel and Vivaro in Mexico.
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Google has announced that it is joining Desarrollo País of Chile (Country Development of Chile) and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to build Humboldt, a subsea cable connecting Chile, French Polynesia, and Australia.
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Scala Data Centers confirms the operations launch of its first site in the Southern region of Brazil, based in Porto Alegre city.
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IoT services provider Wireless Logic today announced it has established a permanent local connectivity solution for Brazil.
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DE-CIX has launched its first two Internet Exchanges in Mexico delivering interconnection services for Mexican and international networks.
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Telxius has confirmed plans to extend its high-capacity subsea cable Tikal, to Cancun, Mexico.
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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence (PoP) in Datacenter SyT in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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The board of Argentina’s telecoms regulator Enacom has given approval for a long-awaited 5G spectrum auction.
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Nokia and Telefonica have aligned to accelerate digital transformation across businesses in Latin America.
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Gabriel Szekely, CEO of Anatel, says the federal government needs to help connect the manufacturing sector with telecoms providers
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XConnect has launched a point of presence (PoP) in Sao Paolo Brazil, expanding its footprint in the LATAM region.
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China Telecom do Brasil (CTB) confirms the availability of its eSurfing Cloud services in Brazil, as of today.
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Zayo has entered into a strategic partnership with Fermaca Networks to deliver “modern and diverse” connectivity between the US and Mexico.
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DE-CIX has made its market entry into Mexico with a distributed Internet Exchange located in Mexico City and Santiago de Querétaro.
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Latin America is the most urbanised region in the world, but its rate of digitisation is low. Cambridge Management Consultants’ Elisabeth Simão tells Alan Burkitt-Gray what challenges operators in the region are facing
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Elea Digital has completed the first phase of its multi-MW hyperscale data centre in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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CloudHQ commences work on its first 200,000 sqm data centre campus in Brazil.
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Mexico’s electricity utility is to use satellite company SES in its ambition to provide rural internet services.
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Marlink has been awarded a Public Service Delegation contract to deliver broadband Internet and 4G/5G services via satellite networks in French Guiana.
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TIM had “better-than-expected results” for 2022, the former Telecom Italia said last night.
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Ericsson’s new head of Europe and Latin America is to be Jenny Lindqvist, widening of her current role, head of northern and central Europe.
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América Móvil and Telxius will deploy a new subsea cable linking Guatemala and the United States.
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Brazilian operator Oi SA has exited bankruptcy protection after six years, causing its shares to soar by as much as 53%.
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1547 has partnered with investment management firm Harrison Street to buy Chase Tower in McAllen, Texas, one of the most important internet exchange locations for traffic between Texas and Mexico.
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Elea Digital has announced the first sustainability-linked bond issued by a data centre operator in Latin America.
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Nokia is to deploy the first industrial-grade LTE private network in a port terminal in Chile at San Antonio Terminal Internacional (STI).
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Brazil’s telecoms regulator wants to position the country in the top 20 in the world in terms of connectivity and services.
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Arelion has launched two new fully diverse routes from the US into Monterrey, Mexico.
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Hispasat and enterprise network provider Sencinet have expanded their collaboration to deliver satellite broadband access in Mexico.
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Gold Data will build the first cable system in the Gulf of Mexico, connecting Miami in Florida with strategic points in Mexico City, Cancun and Queretaro.
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Zayo is strengthening its infrastructure between the US and Mexico, with an extension to the Texas border cities of McAllen and Laredo.
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Equinix confirmed that it is to invest US$45 million in a second data centre in Colombia.
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Arelion has taken a major step in its planned network upgrade by testing Acacia and Cisco equipment over multiple third-party open line systems.
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EdgeConneX has borrowed US$150 million for sustainability-linked financing for Latin America, including Chile and Colombia.
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Liberty Latin America and América Móvil confirm that the Chilean National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) has approved their deal to combine their respective Chilean operations.
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Scala Data Centers has been awarded an environmental license to build the largest data centre campus in Chile.
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Arelion is to offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud Querétaro region via OCI FastConnect in Mexico.
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Zayo Group has confirmed its plans to expand its low-latency fibre routes into São Paulo, Brazil, marking the latest expansion in its Global Exchange Network.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will work together with the National Telecommunications Agency of Brazil (Anatel) and the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) in Romania to combat unwanted robocalls and promote advanced communications such as 5G and 6G.
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Nokia will team with Flex Brazil to deploy 5G SA private wireless networks in its manufacturing facilities in Brazil.
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Marc Ganzi’s infrastructure investment company, DigitalBridge, has appointed Bernardo Vargas Gibsone as its managing director and head of Latin America.
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Scala Data Centers has opened the largest vertical data centre in Latin America, SGRUTB04, in São Paulo, Brazil.
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América Móvil confirms that all conditions have been met to spin-off its telecoms towers and other infrastructure in Latin America.
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Upstream, a mobile marketing firm, has showcased how RCS (Rich communication services) solutions could become important for leading brands across the world, driving a rise in conversation rates of 37% over SMS and 137% higher click-through rates.
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Desarrollo Pais and H2 Cable have issued a request to begin construction on the 15,000km Humboldt Cable, which will be the first to connect Latin America, the Asia Pacific and Oceania.
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ARSAT, the Argentinean telco, is to use SES’s recently launched geostationary (GEO) satellite, SES-17, to extend the reach of its connectivity services across the country.
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Millicom has announced that it has signed a wholesale network access agreement with Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB).
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Mob Telecom, which is owned by Alloha Fibra and provides internet and broadband services in Brazil, has deployed Ciena’s Waveserver 5 platform.
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Nokia has confirmed a partnership with AT&T Mexico as they look to accelerate 5G in the country.
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Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has entered a definitive agreement with WOM in Chile to acquire around 3,800 tower sites in the country.
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Satellite company OneWeb is to expand services to Brazil after the regulator granted it a 15-year licence.
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Oracle has opened the first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Mexico, becoming the first hyperscaler to launch a cloud region in the country.
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In a joint announcement, Infinera and NEC have confirmed that the Infinera ICE6 800G solution has been deployed by Neutral Networks for its new transnational neutral fibre optic network NEXT.
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The Mexican government will take a majority stake in Altán Redes after the telco after signed a US$388 million rescue package.
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An intervention by US vice president Kamala Harris had led to Millicom’s decision to invest US$700 million improving its mobile and broadband networks in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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AT&T Mexico has launched its 5G network in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
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Telefónica has marked the beginning of celebrating its 100th birthday by announcing a pact with OneWeb to provide satellite connectivity services across Europe and Latin America.
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Axtel Networks (Axnet) is working with MDC Data Centers to deliver IP and long-distance services between international hubs in the United States and main cities in Mexico.
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EdgeUno and Quad9 have announced their partnership where EdgeUno is supplying Quad9 with servers and network connectivity throughout Latin America.
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Gold Data confirms that it is entering into the second phase of its Mexico network expansion.
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Axtel Networks said it is investing US$150 million every year in the development, operation, and maintenance of its infrastructure as it builds out its network across Mexico.
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GlobeNet has announced that Bento Louro will take over as its new head of wholesale.
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Capacity shares the key details from three financial reports making headlines today.
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Sparkle has opened a new point of presence (PoP) in Fortaleza IX.BR to meet growing international connectivity demand in Brazil.
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TIM Brasil along with Telefonica Brasil (VIVO) and Claro have completed the acquisition of Oi Group’s mobile assets for a sum of around 7 billion reais ($1.5 billion).
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Digicel Panama will withdraw from the telecommunications market in the country following the approval of the Cable & Wireless acquisition of Claro, in which the government is a major shareholder.
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The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance and a UK government body have teamed up for an international digital inclusion project that will see spectrum play a key role.
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Neutral Networks went live with its new fibre ring in late 2021 and phase two is planned to begin in the second half 2022. Product manager Salvador Vaquero tells Melanie Mingas about the business case driving demand
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Equinix is to expand into Chile and Peru through the acquisition of four data centres from Empresa Nacional De Telecomunicaciones (Entel) for approximately US$705 million.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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Hughes has completed a three-month pilot of its Community LTE service in five villages across Brazil, demonstrating a quick and inexpensive way for MNOs to extend their reach.
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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Both Millicom and du have reported strong performance growth for fourth quarter of 2021.
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Maritime VSAT operator Marlink has confirmed its third satellite partnership of the last seven days.
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400Gbps technologies are expected to drive service provider router market growth, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group.
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Global management consulting firm Bain & Company has published its 2022 Global M&A report which found that telecoms M&A experienced a dramatic rebound during 2021.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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Arianespace has successfully launched 34 more satellites for OneWeb, taking the company’s total in orbit to 428.
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Chilean FTTH provider Mundo has a new owner after Linzor Capital Partners, together with minority partners Teras Capital Spain and CyC, transferred 100% of the business to DigitalBridge.
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Revenue and profit increased across the board for both América Móvil and Globe as the former reaped the rewards of its Tracfone sale and the latter reported its network investments had paid off.
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The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Is partnering with the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme (DAP) to promote digital inclusion in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
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Piemonte Holding and Goldman Sachs Asset Management's private credit business have completed an investment in Elea Digital, an ecosystem of six data centres in Brazil.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
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Millicom has teamed up with the FreeMove Alliance – a global group comprising Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telia and Telecom Italia – to deliver connectivity solutions to multinationals across the Americas and beyond.
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TIM Brasil has announced the appointment of Alberto Mario Griselli as CEO of the company.
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Speaking at the Huawei webinar "5Grows Together: Innovation for a 5Gigaverse Society" on 13 January, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing, outlined how 5G is rapidly on the rise around the world, growing to over half a billion users since mobile operators started launching the technology two and a half years ago.
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Analysis from GlobalData claims that initial public offerings (IPOs) in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) space increased 72% last year when compared to 2020.
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Reconnecting Tonga; rebuffing KKR; digital investments down under; and BDx's Braham Singh
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IHS Towers has agreed to acquire 2,115 towers from a portfolio belonging to Grupo Torresur (GTS) for $315 million.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from iSIMs to aviation dramas.
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Tigo Business, the wholesale unit of Millicom, has launched its Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) in Central America in collaboration with Microsoft.
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The 5G revolution may have started to arrive on Europe’s shores in terms of licences, network infrastructure, devices and services – but I can’t be alone in feeling a sense of déjà vu when reflecting on the current state of the rollout.
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ODATA Brasil is to expand three of its data centres in Brazil as part of a financial arrangement enabled by the World Bank Group's IFC.
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Network-as-a-service provider Megaport has announced plans to expand services to Mexico via a partnership with data centre provider KIO Networks.
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TIM's CEO tango; Colt's data centre drive; a cable called Medusa; and Host in Ireland's Garry Connolly
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Telstra has appointed Vish Vishwanathan as vice president of its wholesale group for the Americas.
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Millicom chief financial officer (CFO) Tim Pennington will retire from the role on 1st April and will be succeeded by Sheldon Bruha.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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Palo Alto Networks has appointed Helmut Reisinger as it new CEO of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America (LATAM).
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#ICYMI - Capacity shares five key telecoms stories that were making headlines in December!
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Chile’s Desarrollo Pais has selected H2 Cable LP as its strategic partner for the development of the first submarine cable to connect Latin America with the Asia Pacific and Oceania.
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IBM and Samsung Electronics have hailed a breakthrough in semiconductor design using a new vertical transistor architecture.
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A rural carrier in Colombia has tied up with satellite company SES to improve coverage of small communities in its area.
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Next generation networks are tipped to transform industry and gaming – but when it comes to sport, 5G, private networks and enhanced broadcasting tech are creating new business cases for network operators. Melanie Mingas explains why it’s a match made in heaven
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MCM Telecom has announced a regional partnership with Telia Carrier in Querétaro, Mexico.
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Schneider Electric has released what its describes as a 'comprehensive novel framework' for environmentally sustainable data centres.
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OTTs, 2022 trends and BT's Andrew Lord on QKD and hollow core fibre
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Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) revenue generated in North America will reach $15 billion by 2026 up from $3.7 billion in 2021, according to a study from Juniper Research.
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Natalie Bannerman speaks to Peter Hobbs, group director of international and wholesale business at Digicel Group, about the company’s Deep Blue One subsea cable and what it means as part of Digicel’s digital-first roadmap.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Desarrollo País (Country Development), the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel) and the Regional Government of Magallanes are to develop the first Antarctic subsea cable.
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EllaLink's new connection and KKR's latest spending spree
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EllaLink confirms that the EllaLink subsea cable system between Europe and Latin America is now operational at Equinix data centres in the region.
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Research by Inmarsat has found that despite the accelerating speed of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic, poor or unreliable connectivity is a key barrier.
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Telefonica and Wipro Limited have announced a joint agreement to introduce continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous testing (CI/CD/CT) in Telefonica’s German and Brazillian markets.
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New standards are required to stimulate the deployment of "cyber-physical systems" in agtech to feed a fast-growing global population.
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IHS Towers is to acquire 5,709 telecoms towers in South Africa from MTN for approximately $412 million (ZAR 6.4 billion) in cash.
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Millicom is to acquire the remaining 45% equity interest in its joint venture businesses in Guatemala (Tigo Guatemala) for $2.2 billion in cash.
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Satellite buys; presidential visits; and Capgemini's Shamik Mishra
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New satellite internet concepts are moving ahead but are some types of companies better positioned to succeed in this growing market than others? Chris Daehnick, associate partner at McKinsey & Company, explores the prospects
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William Natta, communication officer at Télécoms Sans Frontières, outlines the importance of connectivity in education – and how the NGO supports children in crisis
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Viasat, the US company that this week announced a planned merger with Inmarsat, is to build a satellite-enabled community internet system covering Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$100 million in DigitalBridge tower and data centre projects in Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Ufinet executives met with the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso confirming a $250 million infrastructure investment in Ecuador.
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G8 Telecommunications (G8) has deployed Infinera’s GX Series Compact Modular Platform on its long-haul DWDM network to increase its network capacity.
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DigitalBridge's sustainable Hyperscale platform, Scala Data Centers, has appointed a new chief technology officer (CTO).
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Brazil’s government may reschedule a new 5G spectrum auction to sell batches that did not attract interest according to the country’s communications minister Fabio Faria.
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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Claro, Vivo and TIM win 5G spectrum during the first day of Brazil's auction, raising approximately R$7.09 billion ($1.27 billion).
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Project Kuiper launch dates; telco negotiation tactics; and GSMA's Stephanie Lynch-Habib
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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Vodafone Foundation has launched an international search for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its DreamLab smartphone app.
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National Portuguese regulator ANACOM said that the country’s delayed 5G auction has generated $657.1 million.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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IBM has published the results of its latest global study on cloud transformation which has found that there is drastic shift in business needs positioning hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture.
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OneWeb has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) deal with Tampnet to outline a series of technology trials.
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The 17th annual Global Carrier Awards (GCAs) was back live in London during this year's Capacity Europe conference.
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Phoenix Tower International (PTI) and Outremer Telecom have entered into an exclusivity agreement for the acquisition of 203 wireless towers by Phoenix.
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In a two-part panel session DOCOMO Digital's Filippo Giachi and Rahul Mughal unpack the booming sector that is cloud gaming, to mixed views.
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Nominations are now open for next year's Datacloud Awards, scheduled to return to Monaco in April.
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Marynet Bassily, director of procurement and supply chain, EMEA at Vantage Data Centers, explains how she has overcome many obstacles to establish a career spanning construction and telecoms – and how she is encouraging her company and the wider industry to focus on inclusivity
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Omar Qaise, founder and CEO of OQ Technology, on how the company is merging the world of cellular connectivity and satellite
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Meet Subspace, the ambitious start-up that aims to optimise the internet for real-time services. Natalie Bannerman speaks to its co-founder and CTO, William King, on how the idea for the business came about, and what it means for telcos and the gaming sector
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Capacity's annual State of the Industry survey for 2021-22 is now live.
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The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) has published the names of the organisations that have been confirmed as being compliant with the GLF Code of Conduct (CoC).
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Infrastructure provider Neutral Networks is expanding its fibre network within Mexico and linking this up via a new long-distance rollout to the US. Chief commercial officer Leonardo Antopia explains the strategy behind the deployment
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As digitalization progresses, new technologies and new scenarios — such as 5G, cloud computing, IoT, and industrial Internet — are booming, and network connectivity has never been so important.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman spoke to Sami Slim, Deputy Director; Telehouse France and Mark Pestridge, Senior Director, Customer Experience; Telehouse Europe on their recent expansion and refurbishment of their data centres and what is next on the horizon for 2022.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Michael Glynn, Vice President Digital Automated Innovation of PCCW Global about how Console Connect is helping carriers to extend their global reach at the click of a button.
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As the world continues to cope with the global semiconductor shortage, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores the effect of this on the telecommunications industry
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OneWeb changes teams; Adamo switches owners; Orange's 5G showcase; and Aqua Comms' Nigel Bayliff
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Communications Business Automation Network (CBAN) has launched an identity service that verifies partners for any use-case, to automate settlement between ICT Service Providers.
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Revenues from cloud services and infrastructure increased 25% for operators and vendors in the first half of the year, taking revenues to $235 billion.
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Digital economy development is accelerating worldwide as economies look to recover from the effect of the ongoing pandemic. Indeed, the digital economy has become an important field for promoting economic recovery, establishing competitive advantages and improving governance capabilities.
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Small bit-and-piece distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose by 233% in the first half of 2021, revealed Nexusguard in its Threat Report FHY 2021.
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Brazilians in remote and rural areas will soon benefit from better internet connectivity, as ANATEL approved the use of TV white space (TVWS).
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The first quantum network; the last landline; strategy updates from Orange; and Exa's Martijn Blanken
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Nokia is launching a charging configurator microservice for its existing Nokia Converged Charging (NCC) solution.
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To support new, mission-critical applications associated with cloud architectures, 5G and Industry 4.0, IP networks must be trusted to provide guaranteed high-performance and secure connectivity.
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Avalon Campus gets bigger. Construction of Avalon 3, the new hyper-connected and sustainable Data Center in Milan, is under way.
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French satellite company Eutelsat has officially rejected a $3.2 billion takeover bid from billionaire telecoms investor Patrick Drahi.
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Liberty Latin America (LLA) and América Móvil (AMX) have formed an agreement to combine their respective Chilean businesses, VTR and Claro Chile, to create a 50:50 joint venture.
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IoT network carrier 1NCE has raised $50 million in capital from a raft of investors including Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Digicel confirms that it is to build its Deep Blue One subsea cable and is partnering with Orange to extend the system from Trinidad to French Guiana.
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BSO has partnered with EllaLink to commercialise ultra-low latency connectivity for financial trading firms.
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TeleGeography has found that global internet bandwidth increased by 29% in 2021, bringing it back to "normal" levels compared to 2020's COVID-driven levels of 34%.
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Ericsson's Bhutan deal; EA's winning buy; GTT chapter 2.0 and 5G speeds in Europe
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Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel has confirmed the country will conducts its "largest spectrum auction ever" in the coming months.
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MEF has launched a comprehensive set of new APIs, services, and programs in response to market demand to accelerate the implementation of MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today.
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Telefónica has become the latest CSP to use IBM AI-powered automation software and services to implement its first-ever, cloud-based 5G core network platform called UNICA Next.
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Orange confirms the activation of 4G in Kaw, Camopi, Grand-Santi and Maripasoula in Guyana.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from breaking news out of GTT to a world first from BT.
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With the exploding use of APIs to drive new partnerships and services across all markets, the demand for a compliant, core-and-edge data centre platform which can bring diverse sectors together will skyrocket.
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To support new, mission-critical applications associated with cloud architectures, 5G and Industry 4.0, IP networks must be trusted to provide guaranteed high-performance and secure connectivity. Nokia has pioneered this approach by embedding network security functions into every layer of the IP network infrastructure.
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Globenet confirms the start of construction of a new edge data centre in Barranquilla, Colombia.
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The use of PUE in measuring data centre efficiency has been called into question by Cundall, the international multi-disciplinary consultancy that has delivered a portfolio of green buildings, including the Facebook Odense Data Centre.
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Vodafone Group Plc and the International Telecommunication Union are to address the global digital divide through a new working group.
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Geneva, Switzerland – 16 September, 2021, Huawei became a founding member of the Equipment Vendor Program (EVP) of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), in an effort to actively improve global Internet security.
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Colt Group has committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, across all its operations.
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Liberty Latin America confirms that its subsidiary Cable & Wireless Panamá has agreed to acquire América Móvil's operations in Panama (Claro Panamá).
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Ufinet confirms the completion of its acquisition of NB Telecom, in Rio de Janeiro.
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Breda Financial Corp (Breda) and Capital Investment & Asset Management Group (CIAM) have partnered with Ocean Networks Inc (ONI) to invest in the construction of the Caribbean Express (CX) subsea cable.
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The world's largest MVNO is investing £250 million to expand its reach into new markets and develop new technology.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Catherine Hemingray, Global Account Director and Ljubica Draskic, Head of Sales and New Business Development from Smart CIC and they share their insight in connectivity, low latency routes and the products Smart CIC can offer.
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From Elon Musk and Sunil Bharti Mittal to the British government, investors have committed billions of dollars to rolling out low earth orbit satellite constellations, but substantial challenges remain in revenue generation, regulation and productivity, writes George Malim.
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To spin or not to spin? América Móvil is to ask its shareholders for their approval on the sale of its tower assets.
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Natalie Bannerman speaks to president of Telstra Americas Nicholas Collins about the company’s planned expansion and how it is putting people and customers at the heart of the process.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Aarti Holla-Maini, secretary general of ESOA, about evolution of satellite as critical communications infrastructure
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Season 3, episode 2 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and this week's guest, Colm Shorten, senior director of data centres at JLL.
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Whether it’s smart cities or Industry 4.0, Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, explains why seamless onboarding and convergence are key to success
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In many earthquake-prone countries, base isolation is used widely; but it is not used so much in the US. Now a Silicon Valley data centre has combined it with other techniques to offer a new level of protection. Melanie Mingas looks at whether others could follow the lead
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Online, failure is a fact of life – and service provision. However, as Neil Miller, director, solutions engineering, Cisco ThousandEyes, writes, the severity of outages can be mitigated
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Back for series 3, this episode features Melanie Mingas, editor at Capacity Media; editor-at-large, Alan Burkitt-Gray; deputy editor, Natalie Bannerman; and special guest Carl Roberts, partner at Hadaara Consulting.
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There’s a lot going on in space today: new satellite mega-constellations are springing up in multiple orbits, high-throughput satellites (HTS) have been launched into the skies, and SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon are planning huge rollouts of satellites in a low Earth orbit (LEO) over the coming years.
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Following the well-publicised CDN outages of 2021, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores how we can future-proof this infrastructure to avoid such events happening again
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Swarmio’s Vijai Karthigesu on how telcos can get a piece of the content gaming pie
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Mario Martin, CEO of Telxius, talks to Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman about its upcoming Mistral subsea cable system and why the company is committed to strengthening its cable business
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GoldConnect www.goldconnect.com, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider for the Latin America and the Caribbean, today announce during ITW 2021, the release of its latest module incorporated in their LatamConnect platform providing customers with real time service performance monitoring.
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This year The Global Carrier Awards return for a live ceremony in London, but who will be there? Here is the highly-anticipated 2021 shortlist
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The AB Handshake community is dramatically changing the way communications providers validate telephone calls and prevent fraud.
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Mexico offers a big opportunity as a burgeoning hotspot for tech growth, with Neutral Networks providing a potentially attractive route for international players into the market.
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Sparkle has formed a joint strategic venture with Panamanian telecoms provider Trans Ocean Network for the construction of a landing and connectivity centre to act as a digital hub for Central America, the Andean region and the Caribbean.
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Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS) has formed a partnership with Viasat to widen high-speed satellite availability for businesses in Brazil, under which TGS will act as a wholesale distributor of the satellite provider’s services.
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White box solutions extend the cloud to the enterprise edge where technologies such as SD-WAN enable a converged edge architecture securely connecting people and things. This paper provides valuable insights into SD-WAN, SASE and uCPE market opportunities, benefits and ecosystem solutions to help service providers build an open and agile platform that accelerates time to revenue and innovation.
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There was much excitement a couple of years ago when the first 5G service was launched. 5G delivers a real step change in connectivity, capacity and latency that promises both faster download speeds and a host of new low-latency and machine-to-machine applications.
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Global infrastructure operator Telxius confirms that its new Mistral subsea cable is now ready for service.
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Eloise Walker and Catherine Robins from Pinsent Masons, explain how changes to the international tax system will affect telecoms and tech multinationals.
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The private equity investor that owns HGC Global Communications and is bidding for GTT’s infrastructure is to buy Mexico’s largest data centre operator.
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Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is the official charity partner for International Telecoms Week in 2021.
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French group Iliad, which majority owner Xavier Niel wants to take private, has offered to buy broadband operator UPC Poland from Liberty Global for €1.9 billion.
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Radware's telecoms customers saw attack volumes amounting to 18TB per month in Q2, with an average of 600 attacks every 30 days.
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Orange, Telefónica and Nokia are among those who have reported their Q2 and H1 financial results in recent days.
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Total international bandwidth more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, to exceed 2 Pbps.
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NTT Data has carved out a new division, covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, with a new CEO.
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Lumen Technologies is selling off its Latin American business for US$2.7 billion, the company announced this morning.
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The last day to submit an entry to the Global Carrier Awards 2021, is 29 July.
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Ufinet has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in NB Telecom, a Rio de Janeiro-based carrier, for an undisclosed sum.
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Millicom has pledged $250 million for the 2021-2022 period to support its modernisation and expansion plans across Panama.
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KKR has entered an agreement with Telefónica Colombia to establish the country's first independent open access wholesale digital infrastructure company.
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Today the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry accounts for more than 2% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the European Commission in 2020.
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América Móvil’s operating profit increased 9.3% in Q2, with net profit more than doubling year on year to reach 42.8 billion pesos (US$2.1 billion).
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Altán Redes, developer and operator of the Red Compartida network in Mexico, confirms that it has filed for commercial bankruptcy.
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With nominations for the Global Carrier Awards now open, chairman of the judging panel, Carl Roberts, is sharing his tips for those who wish to enter.
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Telstra has appointed Noah Drake as vice president of the customer solutions group for the Americas region.
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Mexican telco Telmex has opened a new data centre in Cancun to take advantage of the subsea fibre links that land there and will be landing in the area.
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The GSMA has said the mobile industry will need an average of 2 GHz of mid-band spectrum this decade to meet the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) data speed requirements.
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Millicom to invest $135 million over two to three years as it modernises its mobile networks in Honduras, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
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It is well understood that the 5G technologies being rolled out today are just the first step in a new evolutionary path towards the headline capabilities. What is perhaps less understood is that 5G evolution will not be limited to terrestrial networks.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest we roundup the biggest stories of the week from the latest on DigitalBridge's EdgePoint to the dawn of quantum computing as-a-service.
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Telefónica has put its weight behind international development goals, saying it wants to deploy sustainable, resilient and quality infrastructures.
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Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology for its subsea network.
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FiBrasil, the wholesale fibre network jointly owned by Telefónica Group and CDPQ, has gone live in Brazil.
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From monetising traffic to international regulations, Gareth Willmer examines the road ahead for IoT and the advances on the horizon
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As global migration and displacement continues to rise, Armando Samayoa, Télécoms Sans Frontières’ representative for the Americas and the Caribbean, shares how the organisation is supporting those affected
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Season 2, episode 22 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and deputy editor Natalie Bannerman.
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Nancy Dragone, VP of talent management with oversight of inclusion and diversity at TE Connectivity, explores how the company’s inclusion and diversity programme focusing on employees’ true selves is becoming a driving force for innovation and business success
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Boosting female representation in technology has been high on the agenda for more than a decade.
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We are all familiar with the stories of flawed artificial intelligence technologies in the public sphere as a result of a lack of diversity. But beyond that, how much does AI/automation unknowingly reinforce biases and inequalities in the telecom-tech space? Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores.
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The industry leaders judging the 2021 Global Carrier Awards have been named.
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During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding delivered a keynote speech Innovation: lighting up the future.
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Nominations are now open for Capacity's top 20 ICT investors list 2021.
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Taking to the skies, the next company to be profiled in the series is SES Networks, who along with Amdocs, were the recipients of the Satellite Project of the Year Award.
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ATC Europe's new shareholder; Etisalat's commercial mmWave 5G plans; and OneWeb's crucial launch
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Huawei’s intelligent cloud-network solution has passed the rigorous test administered by EANTC, an internationally recognised independent test centre.
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Moving onto the subsea part of the Where are they now series is EllaLink and its 2020 win for Subsea Project of the Year.
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People around the world have come to rely on internet connectivity for so many aspects of their work and personal lives.
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Nominations for the Global Carrier Awards are now open.
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Season 2, episode 20 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Tiago Rodrigues, CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance.
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WBA OpenRoaming™ Release 2 is now live, allowing network and service providers, including MNOs, Cable Operators and ISPs to monetise new opportunities and offer an enhanced quality of experience (QoE) to their subscribers.
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The first wholesale connectivity provider in LATAM to receive payments in cryptocurrency
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June 10th saw the launch of GlobeNet’s new subsea cable system Malbec, connecting Argentina and Brazil.
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Altice takes BT stake; Colony Capital rebrands; QTS breaks records; and Ivo Ivanov talks Space-IX
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SubCom confirms that Google has selected it to design, manufacture, and deploy Firmina, a new high-speed subsea cable system connecting North and South America.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Michael Ourabah, Chief Executive Officer and Founder and Anna Flach, Global Marketing Director of BSO about it's recent re-brand and revenue growth.
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For the wireless industry to succeed, it depends on a combination of various factors. Ray Williamson, director, European product management, Huawei Wireless explains what they are
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Ahead of International Telecoms Week 2021, connectivity players have reinforced the need for global collaboration as the satellite sector continues to make rapid gains.
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Fastly has confirmed that a software bug was behind the outage that brought down its edge cloud platform yesterday.
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Infrastructure investment company Colony Capital is to rename itself DigitalBridge Group from 22 June.
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Continuing our look at back at previous Global Carrier Awards winners, we move onto Nordic data centre provider, DigiPlex.
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Telit, a global IoT provider, has expanded its partnership with Hi-Mix Eletrônicos S/A, a Brazilian Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) provider, for the production of LTE modules.
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Capacity is now accepting submission for the 20 Women to Watch 2021 index.
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Hollow core fibre, fibre for cabbages and the latest, space-based, threat for subsea cables
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A delegation of officials from Brazil will travel to the US next week to study the country's private 5G networks and meet with potential investors.
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A coalition of organisations in Mexico are preparing legal action against the government in response to its plans for a national database of mobile users.
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The Datacloud Global Awards took place on 1 June, with more than 20 winners across a wide range of categories.
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Next up in the GCAs: where are they now series is Verizon Partner Solutions, a company that is leading the charge in the area of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
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Contrary to popular belief, satellites account for a miniscule part of keeping the world connected
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Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) and Webby Internet, a broadband network operator in Brazil, have formed a connectivity partnership.
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GoldConnect, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider in Latin America and the Caribbean, announces the release of its state-of-the-art pricing & engagement platform, LatamConnect.
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Nearly 12 months on from its win at the 2020 Global Carrier Awards, Capacity looks back on the progress Amdocs has made with its eSIM Cloud.
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Season 2, episode 17 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman and special guest Carl Roberts.
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Telesat and TIM Brasil have completed a first-of-its-kind LEO backhaul testing in Brazil.
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Yondr Group has announced a $2 billion expansion plan to open up data centres across the US, Canada and Central and South America.
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EllaLink has completed the marine installation of its trans-Atlantic subsea cable system between Europe and Latin America and is set to go live in May 2021. Capacity caught up with the company to get all the final details
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Guarulhos International Airport, in São Paulo, has become the first in the world to provide friction-free Wifi access.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Leveraging some of its 6,435 kilometres of Pacific coastline, Chile will soon host a digital gateway linking Latin America to Asia. Melanie Mingas reports
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Rachael Wilson, managing director of UK-based equality, diversity and inclusion consultancy EW Group, explores the need to think differently about neurodiversity.
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In our increasingly connected world, the use of IoT devices and high bandwidth applications has become more prolific across multiple industries, and there is a need for broader, more reliable coverage.
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Axiata's AI backer, the big shift to Open RAN, and why our homes are the new edge
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Oracle has opened its second cloud region in Brazil to deliver a full disaster recovery solution in the country.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman spoke to Caetano Pessoa, Product Marketing at TOMIA, about the challenges in the wholesale blockchain market and how TOMIA is rising to meet these demands.
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Millicom has started the first moves to open RAN operation in its mobile networks in Latin America.
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América Móvil has been ordered to pay US$2.2 million following arbitration of its dispute with Colombia.
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Angola Cables has completed the upgrade of its MONET subsea cable using Ciena’s GeoMesh solution.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from OTT partnerships to satellites and subsea cables.
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Brazil's IHS has bought a 51% stake in TIM SA's fibre optics unit FiberCo, in a deal worth US$299 million, according to a securities filing on Wednesday.
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Andean Telecom Partners (ATP) has closed its $375,000,000 debt offering, worth 4.05% Senior Secured Notes due 2026.
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Access Partnership's Yamel Sarquis (right) and Pablo Marzocca (left) explain Convention 108+ and its impact across key Latam markets
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The global pandemic has accelerated the already massive demand for bandwidth as consumers intensified their use of streaming services and enterprises migrated to cloud collaboration platforms. This whitepaper outlines what strategies and technologies MNOs and telcos should consider to drive success in view of these latest capacity trends.
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Rocío Lorenzo has been appointed SVP and chief customer officer at Liberty Latin America.
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Major companies are reporting their Q1 results.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Ocean Networks has entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Trans Ocean Network to provide landing party services and infrastructure in Panama for the Caribbean Express (CX) subsea cable.
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China Telecom Americas (CTA) is developing a significant network expansion in Latin America.
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ODATA, a carrier-neutral multi-tenant data centre operator, is accelerating the expansion of its data centre footprint in Latin America.
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América Móvil has published the results of its Q1 2021 financial results, with net profits reaching 1.8 billion pesos ($89.8 million) up from a 28.9 billion ($1.4 billion) in Q1 2020.
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Altarede Corporate has invested in Padtec’s 200Gbps and 800Gbps family of transponders to support the capacity of its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical networks.
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Satellite communications provider, ST Engineering iDirect, has been selected by a Tier 1 MNO in Latin America to extend the ground infrastructure for its upcoming satellite.
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5G Americas and digital equality advocate Conectadas are working together to promote the equal participation of women in the telecoms industry.
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Mexico's data protection institute has become the latest to oppose the country's plans for a biometric register of mobile phone subscribers.
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South Reach Networks (SRN) is deploying equipment needed to offer high capacity 10G, 100G and 400G Ethernet and wavelength services across its networks across the Southeast US.
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Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, has launched a managed cyber security training platform to protect businesses against cyber attacks.
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Angola Cables is now offering a global data centre interconnection (GDI) service, leveraging its direct link to major international data centres and PoPs in the network.
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Data center and connectivity service provider Ascenty is using Seaborn’s international fiber network to connect its São Paulo and Vinhedo data centers in Brazil to the US.
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5G Americas has entered into an agreement with the Chilean Chamber of Digital Infrastructure (IDICAM) for a knowledge exchange and potential joint collaboration.
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DE-CIX and EllaLink have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a strategic partnership.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to GlobeNet CEO Eduardo Falzoni about the impending launch of its Malbec subsea cable and what it means for the region.
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With five major regional groups, the Latam region is facing lower revenues year-on-year, but the demand for infrastructure continues to grow. Tomás Sarmiento and Georgia Jordan, research analysts for Kagan, the media research unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence, explain.
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A new wholesale network will provide internet access to El Salvador’s 1.2 million students, plus health services, and connect retail telcos. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to Uwe Martinz, the man in charge of the project
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From fibre and satellites to towers and subsea, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman dives into the markets along South America’s west coast, to see how its digital transformation is progressing.
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Augusto Dumit, director of multinationals and wholesale at Tigo Business, speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the journey from launch to present day and how the business is rising to meet the demands of its customers.
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IT and cloud services company Tigo Business has announced the building of a $20m data centre in Bolivia as it expands its footprint in Latin America.
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With Capacity Latam 2021 upon us, we heard from Rafael Arranz, Chief Operating Officer at Telxius Cable Business, about the Tannat and Mistral cables, partnerships, Covid-19 impacts, and what's on the horizon at Telxius
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Your news roundup from around the world making headlines today!
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América Móvil’s Claro Chile is working with Nokia to deploy a private almost-5G wireless network at a Chilean gold mine.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week, and from Chanel vs Huawei to DCs for Bees, it's been a surreal seven days.
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Sparkle has improved the coverage of its Virtual NAP service by offering access to DE-CIX locations in the United States.
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Capacity’s annual power listing, featuring the top 100 people across the wholesale telecoms industry is back - and the nomination deadline has been extended.
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GigNet is to use optical networking and broadband access products from Tejas Networks for its high-capacity fibre optic network expansion in the Cancun region of Mexico.
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Allan Ruiz, the newly appointed senior advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at Access Partnership, calls for a modern approach to connectivity policies in Central America
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NetShield, a firewall product by cybersecurity company Clavister, is to be deployed for 5G rollouts in Latin America.
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Resistance to a biometric register of mobile subscribers in Mexico continues to grow as a judge in the country blocked part of the law that would require users to give personal data to telcos.
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Sofia, Bulgaria – 21st April 2021: Neterra, the independent global leaders in layer 1, 2 and 3 connectivity solutions, DDoS protection, and data centre & network services, has today launched its expanded Dedicated Internet Access service - a fully-committed and naturally more secure form of global connectivity to more than 180 countries.
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The cloud continues to be a massive driver for digital transformation in many enterprises today.
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Telxius has unveiled its new Tannat subsea cable, connecting Santos in Brazil to Las Toninas in Argentina.
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Concerns have been raised after Mexico's revived plans to collect and store mobile subscribers' biometric data, cleared another hurdle.
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SUBTEL, Chile’s telecoms regulator, has published the finding of its annual market statistics report.
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TIM Brasil, the Latin American offshoot of the former Telecom Italia, is to expand its 4G mobile network using solar energy in off-grid areas.
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Netskope has appointed Michael Herman as VP channel sales for EMEA and Latam.
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Millicom is now entirely a Latin American operator following today’s disposal of its last African interest, Tigo Tanzania.
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Season 2, episode 13 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guests Hannes Gredler and Richard Brandon from RtBrick.
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IHS Holding Limited has acquired Centennial Towers’ Brazilian and Colombian tower operations.
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Millicom’s Tigo Business has partnered Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand and integrate its managed and professional services into its cloud solutions portfolio.
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Open RAN in Afghanistan, acquisition plans from Digital 9, digital hubs in West Africa and an interview with TSF
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Tampnet has closed its transaction with BP for the acquisition of the BP Gulf of Mexico (GoM) fibre network in the North Sea.
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GigNet, a Mexican Digital Infrastructure company, has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire FB Submarine’s subsea cable system, GigNet-1.
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Biden's $100bn broadband boost; Digital Colony splashes out in Indonesia and edge is the word in data centres
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Benjamin Vicente has been appointed director of finance for GigNet Mexico.
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The number of eSIMs installed in connected devices will increase from 1.2 billion in 2021, to 3.4 billion in 2025, representing nearly 80% in growth.
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International Telecoms Week 2021 will now take place in August.
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Your news roundup from around the world making headlines today!
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Season 2, episode 11 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Josh Snowhorn.
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TIM Brasil has selected Oracle and Microsoft to migrate all of its on-premises workloads to the cloud.
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Galapagos Cable Systems (GCS) and Xtera have announced plans to build a new subsea cable system to the Galapagos Islands.
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BT has lost Jennifer Artley, who was president of its Americas operation, to Verizon Business, where she will be senior VP of strategic initiatives.
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Your news roundup from around the world making headlines today!
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Australia welcomes a new ICT mega-project, Digital Realty sells 11 EU data centres and there are new states of matter in telecoms
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Rio de Janeiro-based financial group Piemonte Holding has purchased five data centres from Oi for a total cost of US$70 million (R$367 million).
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Infinera and American Tower have completed the first point-to-multipoint coherent optical transmission in a carrier network environment in Latin America.
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The SDIA was pleased to see the recent announcement regarding the formation of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact.
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Season 2, episode 9 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Mikael Schachne, the VP of Mobility and IoT Business and CMO, BICS.
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Life has been challenging for Digicel, with earthquakes, hurricanes, financial troubles and now Covid. New CEO Oliver Coughlan tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that the company has a new strategy to build growth
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Liberty Latin America has reorganised its executive team, removing the role of COO from the company structure and adding two new executive team positions.
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According to a BCG study from 2020, only 15% of data scientists are women.
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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!
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El Salvador is to build a broadband network to connect communities along its Pacific coast.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to GlobeNet CEO Eduardo Falzoni, about the impending launch of its Malbec subsea cable and what it means for the region
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In the midst of the two-day event that was Capacity Asia 2020, a topic was raised that led to a much bigger question in need of answering.
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Season 2, episode 7 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.