Nokia has signed a contract with telecommunications giant TIM to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to its enterprise customers in Brazil.

Start-up firm CHT Holdings Dominicana is planning to use infrastructure from Dominican electricity firm ETED (Empresa de Transmision Electrica Dominicana) to increase the country’s options for broadband connectivity.

Chile’s Grupo Gtd has signed a multi-year agreement to use Netcracker’s comprehensive support services for SLA management, problem lifecycle management and resolution, quality assurance and testing and more.

Integrated ICT and infrastructure provider Vox has entered into a partnership with Angola Cables that will give it remote peering access to the undersea South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) linking Africa with the Americas.

Mexican operator Telefonica Movistar has announced the signing of a last-mile wireless capacity access agreement with AT&T in Mexico. Parent company Telefonica, which has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, says that this a long-term agreement.

America Movil’s chairman Carlos Slim has pledged an investment of BRL30 billion ($7.2 billion) into the group’s Brazilian operations.

El Salvador has announced the auction of 20MHz of mobile spectrum in the 1900MHz (PCS) band on 12^th December.

Jamaica’s Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has ordered operators Digicel and Flow to alleviate “persistent quality of service (QoS) issues”.

Telefonica has selected Comtech EF Data Corp’s Heights Networking Platform for a multi-year program to upgrade Vivo Brazil and Telefonica Argentina’s networks in support of 2G, 3G and LTE backhaul.

According to regional press reports, Google is planning its to build a data centre for storage and server management in Uruguay — the second country in Latin America, after Chile, to house a Google data centre.

Connectivity provider Angola Cables and internet exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX have partnered to offer what the two companies describe as premium interconnection services to a variety of neutral IXs for operators and data centres across Latin America.

Nokia and SENAI-SP (Brazil’s National Service for Industrial Training) are teaming up to implement the vendor’s portfolio of technology and connectivity solutions at SENAI-SP’s lab in São Caetano do Sul.

News that Vodafone Business and América Móvil have announced an IoT partnership, that, they say, makes it easier than ever for customers to connect devices globally, could be a significant boost for IoT deployment.

America Movil has shot down reports that it is talks with Telefonica and Telecom Italia over a joint purchase of Oi’s mobile assets.

Seaborn Networks and EdgeUno are launching managed cloud and data centre services in Latin America in an expansion of their partnership.

Telefónica is developing direct carrier billing (DCB) in partnership with Docomo Digital to accelerate the adoption of content and digital services among its subscribers in Latin America.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is now offering commercial 4G services across several cities in the country.

Hughes Network Systems recently announced a high-speed satellite internet service for Mexico. Now it’s the turn of Viasat.

ECI and WDC Networks have partnered to enable ISPs throughout Brazil to provide affordable, high-speed broadband to regions and rural communities which have been historically underserved.

Hughes Network Systems has partnered with Facebook to launch Wi-Fi hotspots in Colombia, supported by the Facebook Express Wi-Fi software platform.

Latin American satellite firm Axesat has selected Hughes Network Systems to deliver satellite connectivity to enterprise customers throughout Colombia.

Viavi Solutions is working with Brazil’s regulator Anatel to evaluate and test 5G-suitable spectrum ahead of auctions that will take place in 2020.