Latin America

Sustainability

ProFuturo and Wayra call for innovative projects targeting technological and educational challenges in vulnerable environments

5G

What’s up with… Vodafone, Openet, Nokia

Nokia at MWC19 (picture courtesy of Nokia)

Optical

What’s up with… Nokia, Huawei, GSMA, KT

Courtesy of Ericsson

5G

What’s up with… Ericsson, HPE, GSMA

Sustainability

Telefónica advances zero net emissions target to 2030

5G

AT&T México selects MATRIXX Software for prepaid platform replacement

AT&T

AT&T announces closing of DIRECTV Latin America operations in Venezuela

Massive MIMO

Entel Peru and Huawei verify TDD ultra-large cell capacity to drive home broadband development

Source: Vodafone

IoT

What’s up with… Vodafone, Jio Platforms, Thales

Cloud

Argentine Ministry of Health Enlists Red Hat to Help Establish a National Digital Health Network

Radio Access Network

Telefónica joins forces with Altiostar, Gigatera, Intel, Supermicro and Xilinx for the development and deployment of Open Ran in 4G and 5G

Telefónica

Corporate venturing emerging in Latin America with over 460 collaboration programs between large corporations and start-ups in 2019

via Flickr © Anthony Goto (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Mobile

TIM, Telefonica confirm interest in joint Oi mobile bid

Transformation

NEC partners with Juniper Networks to enable Telefonica Chile€'s IP Network Fusion Project

IoT

Nokia selected by Telecom Argentina to help enable new enterprise IoT services

via Flickr © Tim Reckmann (CC BY 2.0)

Fixed Access

Debate over America Movil fine masks competitive development in Mexico

via Flickr © Pedro Szekely (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Business Models

New multinational telco group set to burst onto the scene

via Flickr © Victor Camilo (CC BY-ND 2.0)

5G

There’s an awful lot of 5G investment required in Brazil

Telco & CSP

Telefónica announces the organisation structure of its new Latin America unit

IoT

Nokia signs contract with TIM Brazil to launch IoT offer

Sustainability

Telefónica supports COP25 as a technology partner

via Telefonica

Telefónica

Telefonica prepares to hoist the white flag in LatAm

Telco & CSP

Telefónica approves a 5-point plan that will mark a new era for the company

Radio Access Network

Telefonica Movistar signs an agreement to access last mile wireless capacity on AT&T’s network in Mexico