Brazilian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Desktop Sigmanet is planning to stage an initial public offering (IPO).

Claro Chile has signed a US$10.75 million deal to acquire a 2×15MHz holding of 3.5GHz spectrum from rival operator Entel.

The global satellite operator Telesat and TIM Brasil, the Brazilian subsidiary of Telecom Italia, completed in-orbit 4G mobile data backhaul testing using Telesat's Phase 1 low earth orbit (LEO) satellite.

Things are continuing to get tricky for WhatsApp, with further unfavourable responses to the Facebook-owned service’s proposed data use policy.

Days after confirming that Jamaica’s 700MHz tender had been successful, the Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz has named domestic operator Rock Mobile as the island nation’s third licensee.

Travellers, employees and retailers at Brazil’s São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (GRU) are now able to access the world’s first at-airport Wi-Fi 6 network using OpenRoaming.

Ecuador’s state-owned provider CNT (Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) has formed an Automatic National Roaming agreement with Telefonica’s local Movistar unit which will see 4G coverage expanded within 18 provinces.

Latin American data centre specialist Odata is to expand into Chile; it plans to build a new facility in Santiago.

The Private Investment Promotion Agency of Peru (Proinversión), one of whose responsibilities is to foster investment in infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships, is asking for bidders for two projects involving the provision of public telecommunications services in Peru’s urban and rural areas.

Jamaica’s Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) has reportedly received multiple offers in its recent 700MHz spectrum tender, and is in the process of deciding a winner.

Guatemala’s telecom infrastructure has suffered from years of underinvestment from state and provincial governments.

Suriname is the smallest nation on the South American continent, with about 580,000 inhabitants. The only Dutch-speaking nation in South America, it has close affinities with the Caribbean, and is a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).

Haiti’s economic and social indicators remain far lower than the average for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Flow Cayman Islands is aiming to extend its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network across Grand Cayman and the majority of the Sister Islands by the end of 2021.

Vubiquity, part of the Amdocs Media division, has signed a content services partnership agreement with Telefonica Hispam, the Telefonica Group's Latin American business.

Millicom has selected Parallel Wireless as its partner to deliver the first O-RAN compliant 4G networks in Latin America.

TecBan, which specialises in managing auto-service banking networks, operator Claro and vendor Ericsson have announced the arrival of the first ATM using 5G technology in Latin America.

Movistar Chile’s commercial 5G network is to launch with the help of Nokia technology, according to a recent announcement from the multinational telecommunications, information technology and consumer electronics company.

America Movil has been ordered to pay $2.2 million to cover the legal costs of its case against the state of Colombia, in which the operator accused the government of illegally expropriating its local subsidiary Comcel.

Colombian operator WOM has implemented Whale Cloud’s full-stack BSS suite to speed up its digital transformation and improve customer experience.

Scala Data Centres, a Brazil-based hyper-scalable data centre platform, has announced an agreement to acquire data centre and colocation operations in Campinas in the southeast of Brazil from Algar Tech, a company that offers business process solutions.

WhatsApp money transfer is back on track in Brazil. The Facebook-owned messaging service relaunched its person-to-person money transfer services in Brazil early this week.

Cayman Islands ISP Logic Communications has launched a new fixed-wireless home broadband service in eastern districts of Grand Cayman not currently covered by its fibre-optic network.

Telefonica Empresas, the B2B brand of the leading Spanish operator, has been awarded the contract for the final stretch of Chile’s National Fibre Optic (FON) initiative.

Citing a large demand for capacity, ODATA, already one of the leading data centre providers in Latin America, has announced plans to speed up the expansion of its data centre rollout in the region where it has been active since it began operations in 2015.

OPPO, a smartphone manufacturer based in China, has been expanding its footprint globally and has announced that it has entered two new markets - Chile and Colombia.

The Superintendence-General (SG) of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) has approved without restrictions the purchase of the towers of Telxius Torres (a subsidiary of Telefónica / Vivo) in Brazil by American Tower.

Brazilian operator Telefônica Brasil, known as Vivo, has announced the launch of Vivo Pay, which is described as a fully digital account that allows for banking transactions directly through an application.

Brazil’s Oi is now offering its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service in Sao Paulo.

Panama-based company Trans Ocean Network has announced that it will provide cable company Ocean Networks with landing party services and infrastructure in the Republic of Panama for the Caribbean Express submarine cable system.

As in so many other regions, data centre openings are in the news in Latin America, most recently in Bolivia and Chile.

Brazilian operator Oi has announced the launch throughout Brazil of Oi Conta Zap, a digital bank account managed through the WhatsApp messaging application.