A Mexican federal judge has agreed to review America Movil’s legal challenge against the regulator’s demand for the operator to spin off its fixed-line unit.
Telefonica is waiting for its shareholders to greenlight plans to list its Argentinean unit on the Buenos Aires stock exchange.
Mexico’s shared LTE network is now live, with coverage extending to 32.2% of the country’s population.
Three of the largest operators in Argentina have all declared their interest in bidding for the 90MHz of 4G spectrum that the country’s government is putting up for auction.
Telefonica Business Solutions and Huawei have signed a global alliance for the development of new comms solutions for enterprises.
Telefónica and China Unicom have signed an agreement in the field of Internet of Things (IoT).
According to the latest research from Dataxis, 34 LatAm mobile operators have already deployed OTT as an added value product for their clients.
Parallel Wireless, Inc and Telefónica have successfully completed a technology pilot to connect remote communities in LatAm with mobile broadband.
Telefónica and Huawei have agreed on 4.5G evolution with first deployments in Bogotá, Monterrey and Rio de Janeiro.
Regulatory changes in Brazil may allow converged operators to scrap their support for loss-making assets and invest the savings in expanding their 4G offerings.
Mexico’s Hispasat has selected Gilat Satellite Networks’ platform to provide broadband commercial services in Mexico using Hispasat’s Ka HTS capacity of the Amazonas-5 Satellite.
AT&T is considering a push into Brazil’s mobile market by obtaining some of the 700MHz spectrum that the country’s regulator Anatel is auctioning in the second half of this year.
Juvo partners with mobile operators to establish a financial identity and provide access to financial services for unbanked prepaid mobile users around the world.
Mexico’s regulator Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has said that its upcoming spectrum auctions will be open to all interested operators.
T-Systems Brazil is adopting an MVNO-style business model in order to offer IoT services in the market.
Argentinean regulator Enacom has given the green light to proposals allowing firms to deliver multi-play services including mobile, fixed, internet and pay-TV.
Liberty Global has split off its Latin American unit into a separate entity branded Liberty Latin America to provide it “access to the capital and resources necessary to achieve superior financial and strategic growth”.
After completing trials in Q3 2017, AT&T has now launched its LTE-M network in Mexico.
Oi’s proposals to exit bankruptcy protection via restructuring have been approved by two of its main creditor groups.
Brazilian regulator Anatel has pinned China Mobile as a potential investor in the country’s beleaguered operator Oi, which would see the Chinese operator facing off with its rival China Telecom.
The CEO of Brazil’s beleaguered operator Oi has resigned two weeks ahead of a crucial creditor meeting.
Electronic payment solutions firm Toka has selected XIUS to launch Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) services through the brand Tokamóvil in Mexico.
The board of Brazilian operator Oi has revised its proposals for restructuring its debt after its creditors shot down its previous suggestions.
As Altice prepares to sell off some of its non-core assets to write down its €51 billion of debt, its Dominican Public unit has emerged as the most likely first casualty.
Speedcast International has been selected by an affiliate of Nabors Industries to provide new IT communications equipment and cloud-based connectivity services to 40 land-based sites in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina.
Speedcast and SES have announced an agreement to provide several hundreds of Mbps of connectivity into Peru.
China Telecom is reportedly considering an acquisition of a majority holding in Brazil’s Oi for BRL20 billion ($6 billion).
Mexico’s regulator IFT has amended regulation that forbade market leader America Movil from charging termination fees to its rival operators.
Chilean market leader Telefónica Chile has selected Ericsson to virtualise its core network.
Chilean market leader Entel has commissioned Ericsson to ready its network for 5G by deploying its latest LTE FDD network technologies and LTE TDD Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output).
Telefónica Group subsidiary Vivo has extended its BSS Operations and Support contract with Netcracker until 2020.
Flexenclosure has delivered a new high-altitude data centre in Bogota, Colombia.
America Movil’s proposal to split its fixed business into a separate unit has been rejected by Mexico’s regulator.
Vogel Telecom, a leading carrier’s carrier service provider in Brazil, has selected an integrated OTN switching and coherent optical transport solution from Coriant.
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