Latin America
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.