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SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

SUR Holdings has acquired Colombian telco WOM, providing a lifeline for Colombia's fourth-largest mobile network operator, which filed for bankruptcy in April of last year, weeks after its Chilean counterpart. The country's ICT minister Mauricio Lizcano said the investment from SUR Holdings, w...

January 17, 2025

Colombia

Cayman Islands reveals plans for new subsea cable

The Cayman Islands government has revealed plans to deploy a new subsea cable. Ranulf Scarbrough, who leads the Cayman Islands Submarine Cable Modernisation Project for the Cayman Islands Government, presented the self-governing British Overseas Territory’s plans at the Subsea Networks EMEA co...

June 03, 2024

Colombia

Colombia’s 5G spectrum raises $380 million

Colombia’s ICT Ministry MinTIC has confirmed that the country's 5G spectrum auction raised about $380 million, falling short of the expected $500 million. Claro, Partners Telecom Colombia (WOM), and Union Temporal Colombia Móvil-Telefónica all secured 5G licenses in the auction, which lasted ...

December 26, 2023

Colombia

Etix Everywhere acquires five French data centers from DataBank

US data center operator DataBank is transferring its data center portfolio in France to Etix Everywhere and leaving the country. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced that it had reached an agreement with Etix Everywhere to sell all five of its facilities in France (which run...

July 05, 2023

Etix Everywhere

Tayra facility in Colombia to become supercomputer

In Colombia, an underused data center at Colombia's center for bioinformatics and computational biology (BIOS) in Valle del Cauca, is to be transformed into a supercomputer. According to the government, it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) to facilitate this.The Tayra facility is currently us...

June 02, 2023

Colombia

Itel Invests $20 million in Etix Everywhere JV in Bangkok

Interlink Telecom (Itel) of Thailand has declared its intention to invest in its data center partnership with Etix Everywhere. In conjunction with Australian firm Edge Centres, the company has also recently debuted an Edge facility. The Bangkok Post reports that Intel revealed plans to invest ...

May 19, 2023

Etix Everywhere

Colombian Data Centers Acquired by I-Squared Capital to Strengthen Portfolio in Growing Latin American Market

I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin ...

April 14, 2023

Colombia

Etix Everywhere Receives $47M Investment From Eurazeo

Data center company Etix Everywhere has received a $46.8 million investment from European private equity firm Eurazo. The funding was obtained by Etix Everywhere's French division through Eurazo's infrastructure strategy, according to a report this week from Global Data Centre Group (GDC), ...

February 24, 2023

Etix Everywhere

HostDime Opens New Data Center in Bogota, Colombia

HostDime has announced the launch of its new data center in Bogota, Colombia. The CEO of HostDime, Manny Vivar, announced and posted a comment on LinkedIn about the development. He said: "As the sun settles tonight, we reflect with gratitude all the hard work our HostDime Colombia 🇨🇴 familia h...

October 12, 2022

HostDime Colombia

Globenet starts work on second data center in Barranquilla

Just two weeks after announcing its new Edge data center in Fortaleza, Brazil, Globenet has announced the construction of a new Edge data center in Barranquilla, as it continues to expand to meet demand. By the end of 2022, the company plans to have a total of five Edge data center locations i...

September 21, 2021

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CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has helped ODATA construct and launch the company’s first data center in Bogotá, Colombia. ODATA’s new data center, DC BG01, is the second ODATA data center, the first outside Brazil af...

May 28, 2019

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