Latin America smartphone shipments look steady next to global decline
While shipments in the LatAm region are down 2.5% YoY, the global year-on-year decline is a more eye watering 9%, according to figures from Canalys.
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Millicom looks for investors in towers and mobile money biz
Millicom has announced plans to spin off its towers business as part of a new strategy that will also see it carve out its mobile money unit and spend billions of dollars on network expansion.
Telefonica sells El Salvador business…again
Telefonica has brokered a deal to sell its operations in El Salvador just over a year after a previous attempt to offload the business collapsed.
America Movil and Liberty LatAm get cosy in Chile
America Movil and Liberty Latin America have agreed to merge their operations in Chile, a move clearly designed to help with fibre and 5G investments in the coming years.
Liberty LatAm spends $200m on America Movil’s Panama ops
Liberty Latin America has agreed to acquire America Movil’s operations in Panama for US$200 million, boosting its existing presence in the country.
Lumen flogs its Latin American business for $2.7 billion
US B2B comms company has delivered on its promise to dispose of non-core assets by selling its LatAm operations to hedge fund Stonepeak.
AT&T turns telco in Latin America too
AT&T is selling another of its content operations, this time in Latin America, as it looks to focus on the connectivity side of the business there, much like it is doing back home.
Telefónica has more LatAm fibre deals in the pipeline
Telefónica’s top management have given a strong indication that we can expect more fibre infrastructure deals from the telco in Latin America.
Millicom maintains no dividend policy due to gloomy outlook
Millicom did its best to talk up a fairly weak full-year financial performance on Thursday, but did not attempt to conceal the difficulties it will face in its various operating markets this year.
America Movil spins off towers, but likely to keep control
America Movil has become the latest big-name telco to announce a plan to spin off towers with a view to maximising the value of those passive infrastructure assets.
Telefónica’s €7.7 billion towers sale is good news for Vodafone
Telefónica has agreed to sell its towers portfolio in Europe and Latin America to passive infrastructure specialist American Tower for €7.7 billion.
Telefónica reportedly receives €10 billion bid for 51% of its Hispanoamérica business
A group of Latin American oligarchs seem to have had a whip-round to buy a majority stake in all Telefónica operations in the continent, bar Brazil.
AT&T offloads Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands units to Liberty LATAM
Some might suggest this is a knee-jerk reaction to the intentions of an activist investor, though the vulture fund should not be able to claim credit for this one.
Softbank turns its attention to Latin American start-ups
Softbank has announced the launch of yet another investment fund, this time turning its eyes towards the unfulfilled promise of Latin America.
Sigfox expands proprietary IoT network to Colombia
French IoT networking company Sigfox has continued its Latin American expansion by making Colombia the third country in the region to receive its proprietary network.
Liberty Global completes $7.4 billion CWC acquisition
Multinational cable company Liberty Global has completed the $7.4 billion acquisition of Cable & Wireless Communications Plc, which gives it a strong presence in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Huawei announces first Latin American G.fast trial with Cable & Wireless
Huawei and Cable & Wireless Communications have claimed the first successful trial of ‘the fastest copper based broadband service across Latin America’ using G.fast technology.
Telefónica hails success of virtualisation technology tests on ZTE’s Cloud Unicore
Mobile comms equipment maker ZTE and telco Telefónica have jointly tested a range of virtual network functions (VNFs) from ZTE’s Cloud UniCore portfolio.
Liberty Global signals LATAM ambitions with Cable and Wireless Communications acquisition
Liberty Global has agreed to buy Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) in a deal valued at $8.2 billion, a valuation that is 10.7 times the acquisition target’s EBITDA.
Tecnotree CTO says operators need more agility in BSS environments
The CTO of Finnish business support systems specialist Tecnotree has said the traditional approach to BSS can hold operators back and solutions that work now might be unworkable in five years’ time. Talking to Telecoms.com at the Mobile World Congress 2015, Timo Ahomäki said telcos need to focus their thinking on where their business is going and build a system around that vision.
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