America Movil registered a loss of MXN29.4 billion ($1.2 billion) in the first quarter after the Mexican peso fell 25% against the US dollar.

Digital Colony Management, the digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc has announced the establishment of Scala Data Centres, a hyperscale data centre platform headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Digicel Group has issued a new restructuring plan intended to cut its debt burden by as much as US$1.7 billion.

Telefonica’s Latin American subsidiary has presented a new buyout offer to minority shareholders in its Peruvian operation.

Venezuela’s sole telecoms satellite has ceased functioning three years before it was due to.

Mexican regulator IFT (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones) could postpone the country’s upcoming auction of 5G-ready 600MHz spectrum in light of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Jamaica’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has charged several executives from the now-defunct startup Symbiote Investment (Caricel) for breaching the country’s Telecommunications Act.

Syniverse has signed a new indirect channel partner, CPA Ferrere, to sell its Syniverse Mobile Engagement suite of services to companies in the agribusiness, financial, public and healthcare sectors in South America.

Mexican cable operator Megacable is deploying fibre GPON infrastructure across its footprint via a US$400 million investment.

Internet para Todos Perú (IpT Peru) has partnered with Parallel Wireless to deploy hundreds of programmable virtualised 4G OpenRAN sites for mobile broadband.

Chile is implementing a new tax law that obliges overseas providers of OTT and e-commerce services to pay VAT from 1^st June 2020.

Telefonica has completed the process of returning its Mexican spectrum licences and raised EUR95 million (US$104 million) as a result.

Telefonica has launched an IP Network Fusion Project for digital network transformation in the Chilean market.

Infinet Wireless has installed a new high-capacity wireless infrastructure to improve public safety and expand its geographical coverage in Mexico’s Zacatecas state.

Millicom, under its Tigo brand, has selected Affirmed Networks, which supports mobile network 5G transformation, as a strategic partner for the deployment of its cloud-based, 5G-ready core network in Latin America.

Telecom Argentina has signed a deal with Nokia allowing it to offer IoT services to its enterprise customers in the country and across Latin America using Nokia Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING).

A senior official in Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications is being investigated by the country’s Attorney General’s Office in relation to the country’s recent spectrum auction.

Guyana’s regulator has dismissed a proposal from Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to settle a long-running tax dispute.

The regulator of Honduras has confirmed that it intends to release the 3.5GHz band for mobile use.

According to regional press reports, Cuba’s number of fixed line connections is growing and fast mobile growth is expected for this year.

Telefonica has received a €10 billion offer on a majority stake in its business across eight Latin American markets.

CMC Networks and Neutrona Networks are expanding their SD-WAN and cloud network services for customers doing business in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Thales Alenia Space, which designs satellite-based systems, is to build a satellite for Spanish satellite telecommunications operator Hispasat. Its coverage area will include Latin America.

An entrant in Colombia’s recent spectrum auction has asked to retract its bid after accidentally offering to pay ten times more than the going rate for the licence.

Paraguay expects its national fibre-optic network (Red Nacional de Fibra Optica, or RNFO) to be complete by February.

America Movil has closed its acquisition of Nextel Brazil for final total of $905 million.

SETAR, a communications provider in the Caribbean island country Aruba, has expanded its current partnership with Nokia with an agreement to provide what is described as a full end-to-end 5G network transformation.