Telecommunications
Argentina:
Telecom accepts Metrotel’s offer to acquire 6 million mobile and 200,000 fixed Internet customer base
On October 14, Telecom Argentina reported to Argentina’s securities regulatory agency (Comisión Nacional de Valores) that it had accepted the offer made by its competitor Metrotel for the acquisition of a base of 6 million mobile and 200,000 fixed...
El Salvador:
General International Telecom enters into agreement to acquire Digicel’s local subsidiary
Digicel has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its El Salvador unit to General International Telecom El Salvador (Gites), a subsidiary of General International Telecom (GIT) operating in the country under the Movistar brand. In the...
Argentina:
Telecentro to acquire ISP Iplan
Argentina’s telecommunications market was taken by surprise on August 31 when Telecentro, which is one of the most relevant operators in the country with extensive coverage in the city of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area providing...
Paraguay:
Personal and Tigo secure 5G spectrum after second Conatel bid
Paraguay’s National Telecommunications Entity (Conatel) has announced that the only two companies that tendered offers for the second 5G spectrum bid have been awarded licenses. The companies are Personal (doing business as Núcleo) and Tigo (doing...
Peru:
América Móvil acquires fiber-optic Internet provider WOW
América Móvil announced on July 20 an agreement for the acquisition of one of its competitors in the Peruvian market. The telecommunications company has acquired 100% of the capital stock of fiber-optic Internet and phone services operator WOW,...
Brazil:
Sky Brasil to launch mobile service as an MVNO and to become a triple play carrier
Waiken ILW, a holding owned by Argentine Grupo Werthein, has entered the mobile market in Brazil. The launch of Sky Móvel has been announced by the company that owns Sky Brasil, which will deliver the service as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator...
Chile:
Millicom acquires Movistar Chile from Telefónica
Multinational telecommunications giant Millicom announced on February 10 an agreement with Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica for the acquisition of the latter’s Chilean subsidiary, which provides Internet, Pay TV, fixed phone and mobile...
Colombia:
DirecTV officially launches mobile service in Colombian market
Pay TV and Internet provider DirecTV has formally entered a new segment: mobile services. On August 25 it officially launched its own offering in Colombia as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) using the network developed by Tigo (an operator...
Venezuela:
Supercable shuts down definitively
Venezuelan Pay TV and Internet operator Supercable deactivated its equipment on August 18, which marked the permanent cessation of its operations. Following notification to its customers earlier that day, the company actually shut down its...
Colombia:
DirecTV activates its own mobile phone service in beta phase
Telecommunications giant DirecTV (Grupo Werthein) has just launched its own mobile phone service in Colombia. As TAVI Latam could find out from company sources, the new service is operating in a beta phase for the time being and is using the...
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