Chilean regulator Subtel has begun a public consultation over whether MVNOs should receive lower wholesale rates from network operators to allow them to compete more effectively.

Caribbean telecoms provider Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) has begun the successful restoration of mobile services to Dominica.

IoT specialist Kerlink has partnered with YEAP! to deploy Argentina’s first LoRaWAN network.

Telefonica Colombia will generate capital of around €1.8 billion as it attempts to write down debt as well as settle a fine issued to it earlier this year.

Viva Bolivia has launched Viva Ilimitado, a time-based mobile data solution powered by Comptel’s FWD solution.

Ericsson has been selected by VIVA Dominicana to deploy its Revenue Management products, as part of a five-year, full end-to-end network modernisation project.

Cloud networking provider GTT Communications has expanded its platform of low latency services to Brazil’s financial markets.

Open Mobile is deploying a virtualised IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Core from Interop Technologies to provide a range of network services in Puerto Rico.

Latin American telecoms provider Grupo Gtd has selected Netcracker solutions to enable its large-scale IT consolidation, transformation and network virtualisation program.

Mexican regulator IFT has begun a public consultation over the terms for its delayed 2.5GHz band spectrum auction.

Telebras has awarded Gilat Satellite Networks an $11.4M contract to provide a satellite-based broadband network to the Brazilian Geostationary Satellite of Defense and Strategic Communications, SGDC.

The government of Colombia has ordered the operators Claro and Movistar to pay a total of COP4.8 trillion ($1.6 billion) after they were found to have violated network licensing agreements by an arbitration tribunal.

Managed municipal services provider Viginet-IP S.A. has selected solutions from 5G specialist Mimosa Networks for its new network in Argentina.

Caribbean service provider Logic has selected solutions from Calix to enhance existing GigaCentre deployments and improve its subscriber experience in the Cayman Islands.

Belizean operator Smart has implemented FTS’ real-time billing and charging solution to support its expansion into 4G/LTE.

According to latest research conducted by Dataxis, fixed broadband connections for Latin America in the first quarter of 2017 reached 68.11 million.

Telefonica’s global infrastructure group Telxius is now offering its customers on-demand software-defined terabit capacity subsea service activation on its SAM-1 subsea network between the U.S., Brazil and Puerto Rico.

Digicel Group is rolling out Squire Technologies’ SVI_STP (Signal Transfer Point) across multiple sites in their Caribbean, Central American and Asia Pacific networks.

Carlos Slim is reportedly looking to sell a minority holding in tower firm Telesites, which was formerly a unit of Slim’s America Movil before being spun off due to regulatory pressure.

Spirent Communications has scored the first contract for its Tweakker line of device intelligence solutions in South America through Brazil’s mobile virtual network enabler/aggregator (MVNE/A) Surf Telecom.

ECI has partnered with Colombia’s largest fibre optics operator Media Commerce to deliver packet-optical metro and aggregation networks nationwide.

Telefónica is deploying dedicated Service Operations Centres (SOC) in Argentina and Chile for the intelligent management of its networks.

The partnership between Ericsson and Cisco has secured its first agreement in Brazil, with the two companies working together to supply and install IP routers for Nextel.

Digicel is using equipment from ZTE to expand its 4G LTE networks across its 26 markets in the Caribbean and Central America.

TIM Brazil has signed a new contract with Nokia to build out a robust network infrastructure, helping the operator cope with increasing consumption of 4G mobile data.