September 07, 2024 Puerto Rico
Liberty Latin America (LLA) has acquired spectrum assets from EchoStar in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.The acquisition also includes close to 85,000 pre-paid mobile subscribers, confirmed LLA in a statement.LLA will pay $255 million for the assets, to be paid across four installments,...
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August 05, 2024 Caribbean
Liberty Latin American (LLA) and Millicom have signed an agreement merge their operations in Costa Rica which will see LLA hold a stake of around 86 percent in the company, with Millicom holding the remaining 14 percent. The final ownership percentage will be confirmed at closing and the new...
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March 05, 2024 Caribbean
A government data center in Jamaica known as the eGov Data Centre has received a J$600 million (US$3.8m) upgrade. Works relating to this upgrade began in 2020 and was managed by the Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU). Minister of Finance and the Public Service Dr. Nigel Clarke said of the...
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November 07, 2023 Puerto Rico
Liberty Latin America Ltd has struck a deal with Dish Network to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, including 120,000 prepaid mobile subscribers in those markets, for $256 million. This amount will be paid in four annual installments commencing on...
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May 30, 2023 Caribbean
At the Executive Sessions on Digital Leadership in the Caribbean on May 16, nine Caribbean ministers and two senior advisors signed the 'Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration,' an agreement to pursue collaborative, sustainable digital transformation in the Caribbean.The commitment was...
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May 15, 2023 Caribbean
Proteus’s underwater lab and accompanying data center have been given the green light. This follows the signing of a deal with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which saw the two agree a 2026 deployment and to conduct research together.The lab would span 2,000 sq ft (185...
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April 04, 2022 Puerto Rico
A new data center is on its way to Saint Kitts and Nevis, it has been announced. Saint Kitts and Nevis are neighboring islands to the east of Puerto Rico. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, announced that a state-of-the-art facility would be built in the country in a plan to...
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February 02, 2022 Puerto Rico
Continent 8 Technologies has announced the opening of a data center in Puerto Rico. The firm offers hosting and data center solutions to online gambling and betting companies. Continent 8 did not reveal the details of the data center. The company’s general manager for Latin America, Gabriel...
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March 26, 2019 Blue NAP Americas Curaçao
AMS-IX announced today that it has expanded its Caribbean Internet Exchange to a second data center in Curacao. Customers of the Blue NAP Americas can now connect directly to the IXP. Curaçao is a small island in the Southern Caribbean and without a doubt a niche Interconnection market, but...
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January 05, 2017 Blue NAP Americas Curaçao
LAS VEGAS /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the 2017 International CES, Dataplanet N.V., a company that designs, builds and operates state-of-the-art data centers, announced the launch of Blue NAP Americas, the most advanced multi-tenant Tier-IV certified data center in the Americas. Blue NAP Americas...
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