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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China Telecom do Brasil (CTB) confirms the availability of its eSurfing Cloud services in Brazil, as of today.
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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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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.