January 17, 2025 Colombia
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,...
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June 03, 2024 Colombia
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...
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December 26, 2023 Colombia
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 nine...
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October 06, 2023 Peru
Peruvian technology services company Canvia has launched a third data center in San Isidro, Lima, aligning with its plan to grow 18% this year. This new campus, designed to meet local needs in the short term and international demand in the long run, guarantees a 99.98% annual availability....
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June 02, 2023 Colombia
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 used...
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April 14, 2023 Colombia
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...
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April 12, 2023 Peru
Optical Networks has announced that it is rebranding as Win Empresas. This pursuit of a commercial restructuring, is aimed at bolstering its presence in the corporate telecoms market through enhancing association with Win, its telecoms arm. Further to this, it restated its intentions to open two...
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May 16, 2022 Peru
Optical Networks has announced that it is to develop two additional data centers in Lima, in response to the growing demand for business services. The first of the two is already under construction and, according to the company, will be operational by the end of 2022. Speaking to BNAmericas,...
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