As part of its Q2 2021 results report presentation, the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) reported that its FTTH customer base achieved a 11% growth during the first half of the year, and ended June with 374 thousand subscribers, which represents around 37 thousand new subscribers in relation to December 2020. Likewise, the company [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are known under the ‘Movistar’ brand, is negotiating to sell part of its FTTH network in Peru. The information was reported on several specialized websites, including the Spanish economic newspaper ‘Cinco Dias’ web version The news came after, in November 2020, Movistar Peru announced the creation of [...]
Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, held a meeting last week with Gabriel Gurmendez, CEO at the country’s telco Antel. According to information reported on several local websites, including ‘La Diaria’, the executive reported that an agreement was reached, which allows to ‘accelerate’ some investments related to fiber optic coverage in the country. According to Gurmendez, [...]
Telecommunications companies Liberty Latin America and Telefonica have officially announced this last Monday, August 2nd that Costa Rican President, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, has allowed the sale of Telefonica’s operations in the country -where they are known as ‘Movistar’- to Liberty Latin America’s 80% subsidiary, Cabletica. Both companies expect the transaction to be closed in mid-August. [...]
Chilean Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel), entity in charge of controlling and supervising the telecommunications market in the country, has officially announced on July 20th the launch of a new tender to deploy the ‘Fibra Optica Tarapaca’ (FOT) project. It is an initiative through which the entity will grant more than CLP 6,200 million (more than [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are branded as ‘Movistar’, has officially announced this last Friday, July 16th, a new partnership agreement with the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) investment fund to create a new company, which will be in charge to deploying FTTH in Colombia. According to the officially reported information, the aim [...]
Millicom International Cellular, whose operations in Latin America are known under the ‘Tigo’ brand, announced a USD 250 million investment, with the aim of expanding its fixed and mobile internet services in Panama, where it also plans to create a ‘Fintech Hub’, according to the information that the company has officially reported this week. The [...]
ON*NET Fibra announced this last Wednesday, July 14th, it has started operating in Chile. It is a new wholesaler that will offer an open and neutral FTTH service and will promote access to broadband services. The company comes up as a result of the acquisition by the KKR investment fund of 60% of InfraCO, a [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica Peru, where, as in the rest of the Latin American countries where it operates, it does so under the ‘Movistar‘ brand, has officially announced this last Monday, July 12th, that it has requested the Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversion Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), entity in charge of regulating the public telecommunications services [...]
Telecommunications company Millicom, whose operations in Latin America are branded as ‘Tigo’, has announced this last Thursday, July 8th, a USD 135 million investment over the next two / three years, with the aim of updating its mobile network in Bolivia, Honduras and Paraguay, in partnership with the Swedish multinational company Ericsson. ‘The Covid-19 pandemic [...]