Digicel announced on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its El Salvador operations to General International Telecom El Salvador (GITES) as it sharpen its focus on its core Caribbean markets.

ZTE and Uruguay's Antel have completed what they describe as the first validation of symmetric 50G PON technology in Latin America, demonstrating the coexistence of GPON, 10G PON and 50G PON on the same access network.

Digital payment, digitisation, and FinAI solutions company Ant International has received a Payment Institution (PI) licence from the Central Bank of Brazil.

Global connectivity provider Telxius says it has built a carrier-neutral, AI-ready landing gateway and edge data centre in Cancun, Mexico that will serve as a new landing point for the upcoming AMX3/Tikal subsea cable linking Guatemala and Florida.

Teltronic, a Spanish company with more than 50 years of experience in the critical communications sector, says it will be supplying a 4G broadband communications network for national rail company EFE Trenes de Chile.

Claro Colombia is investing US$25.5 million in 2026 to expand and upgrade its Triara data centre in Bogota and Megacenter facility in Medellin, as demand for cloud, AI and data processing capacity increases.

Alibaba Cloud announced on Thursday it has launched its first cloud region in Brazil, with two new data centres and an upcoming suite of enterprise-grade agentic AI services in the region.

The troubled tale of Brazilian operator Oi took a not unexpected turn this week as a Brazilian court upheld an earlier bankruptcy ruling, putting an end to Oi's attempt at court-supervised restructuring.

Data centre company Equinix has reportedly expanded its Colombia data centre footprint and increased its investment, bringing online the second phase of BG2, its second data centre in Colombia, doubling the site's cabinet capacity in Bogota.

Latin American data centre firm Terranova, the hyperscale data centre platform backed by the Actis infrastructure fund, described as one of the largest and longest-standing sustainable infrastructure investors globally, has started work on a new data centre campus outside Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) has announced the award of radio spectrum frequency blocks to operators Viettel and Claro Dominicana after a recent public tender.

Smartphone shipments in Latin America fell 10% year-on-year in Q2 2026, marking the region's largest annual decline since Q3 2023, as the ongoing memory shortage pushed up component costs and weighed on demand.

Colombia's Ministry of ICT (MinTIC) has cancelled a tender for a major fibre optic project in the Amazon rainforest, citing financial uncertainty and potential technical, environmental and coverage risks.

Technology company Rakuten Symphony and Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia, operator of the Viva Bolivia mobile network, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore a phased strategic collaboration.

Gilat Perú has signed a US$14 million agreement with the Regional Government of Ayacucho for a fibre-optic broadband project in southern Ayacucho.

Mexico’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), through its Integrated Public Train and Transport Agency (ATTRAPI), has launched an international public tender to provide 5G telecommunications to two of the country’s rail corridors.

Google has announcing a major expansion of its global network infrastructure in the Americas with three new subsea cable systems: Alisios, Canoa and OlaLuz.

Global smartphone shipments fell 7% year-on-year in 2Q26 as the ongoing memory shortage pushed up device prices and weakened consumer demand.

Ericsson confirmed on Friday it has won a contract from the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) – the Costa Rican government’s electricity and telecoms service provider – to deploy a 5G Standalone (SA) network for ICE’s telecom division, Kölbi.

Amdocs, a provider of software and services for communications and media companies, has had a busy few days with announcements of two Brazil-focused deals and one relevant to a large part of Latin America.

Sabesp, the water and sanitation company of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, has announced the deployment, with operator Vivo, of what is described as the world's largest Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity project for smart water management.

A Japanese company has announced plans for a major investment in optical fibre and cable capacity that could benefit facilities in India and Brazil.

Space solutions company SES has been selected by LATAM Airlines, the largest airline in Latin America, to provide multi-orbit in-flight connectivity service to its growing fleet of Airbus and Embraer aircraft.

Liberty Networks announced on Friday it is teaming with state-owned Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV) to launch a new subsea cable linking Venezuela to the island nation of Curaçao.

Payments technology company ACI Worldwide and dLocal, a payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, have announced a strategic partnership that gives global merchants immediate and seamless access to leading local payment methods in parts of Latin America.

A private network deal involving Brazilian operator TIM, described as marking a new level in the digitisation and modernisation of energy distribution in Brazil, has just been announced.

Digicel has announced a major expansion of its fibre network in St. Lucia, with the operator aiming to extend coverage to more than 99% of homes across the Caribbean island.

Global connectivity provider Telxius announced on Wednesday it has launched a new point of presence (PoP) in the Dominican Republic at the NAP Caribe data centre in Santo Domingo.

America Movil has agreed to acquire Peruvian fixed broadband provider Wow from Liberty Latin America and its partners, strengthening the operator's position in Peru's growing fibre broadband market.

Terra Innovatum Global, a developer of micro-modular nuclear reactors, has announced that Latin American media group Waiken ILW has chosen its SOLO micro-modular reactor platform for an initial deployment supporting the data centre infrastructure of two broadcasting and streaming services providers.

Alipay+, a global digital payment gateway under fintech provider Ant International, has announced that it will enable global travellers to make QR code payments at millions of merchants across Argentina.

The province of Chubut in southern Argentina is reported to be seeking to attract investment in data centres and develop a second submarine fibre optic landing point in the country, citing significant competitive advantages compared to other provinces.