Region
Latin America
Latin America regional intelligence explains how companies, people, policy moves, network operations, investment signals, data centre demand, telecom execution, and market constraints shape infrastructure delivery in the same geographic market or governance area. The page connects published coverage with evidence, regional actors, operating dependencies, market context, and customer or regulatory exposure that may otherwise sit across separate topic or company pages. Readers can compare who is active, which signals are backed by public evidence, how local execution risk connects to broader internet infrastructure strategy, and what changes may affect customers, partners, regulators, or capital planning. Readers can understand the geography, the relevant infrastructure sectors, the public evidence base, and the practical questions that make the regional page more useful than a short listing of articles.
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends
Buy the company. Its place in LACNIC’s IPv4 queue stays behind.
A buyer can acquire a network and ask LACNIC to register the IPv4 resources it already holds. The target’s place on LACNIC’s waiting list is a different asset on the spreadsheet: it belongs to the applicant organization and is lost on a purchase, sale or merger. In a market where…
Academics
The Record Says 382 Kilometres. The Syllabus Says Nothing.
A Wikipedia page reports a 382 km Wi-Fi connection in June 2007, credited jointly to Ermanno Pietrosemoli and EsLaRed of Venezuela. A second record credits him with teaching low-cost data communications in many countries. A third counts 50 training activities and 2,400 entities…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Three Thousand Prefixes, No Address Book: What Brisanet Actually Declares
On the day Brisanet's third-quarter financials fell due, the sharpest public measurement of its network was a self-declared field list: 3,000 IPv4 prefixes, 1,000 IPv6 prefixes, 13 exchanges, nine facilities. It is a routing admission, not an asset register — and the one record…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Abrint Stopped Asking Anatel for Relief and Started Suing It
In six weeks the association of Brazil's small internet providers filed two separate constitutional challenges at the Supreme Court, then went back to lobbying on tax, spectrum and the survival of a rule that expires on 31 December 2026.
Story
DE-CIX Mexico Counts Thirty Networks. The Registry Counts Zero.
DE-CIX Mexico Counts Thirty Networks. The Registry Counts Zero. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Telefonica Brasil Sells 5G. It Also Runs a Top-Level Domain.
The root-zone record for .vivo names Telefonica Brasil S.A. as Manager, status Active, delegated since 2016-07-15, with an RDAP endpoint under its own name. That is a real operating duty with a date and a street address. It is not an address stock, a licence, or a balance sheet…
Leaders
Hugo Salgado Put a Version Number on a DNS Answer
Two authoritative servers can answer the same name from different copies of a zone. Salgado wanted the reply itself to say which copy spoke. The idea took years and three authors to become one small DNS option.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
American Tower’s Latin America revenue rose. The tenant billings went the other way.
The tower landlord reported 10% more Latin American revenue in the third quarter. Currency translation supplied most of the increase, while customer cancellations, chiefly in Brazil, pushed the region’s tenant billings down. A fuller top line can hide an emptier lease register.
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends
Uruguay Cut Keys for a New DNS Algorithm. Its Root Record Still Says 8.
SeCIU replaced the .uy security module and generated keys for today’s algorithm and a future one. The IANA delegation still displays one algorithm-8 DS record. A key ceremony is the first move, not the cutover.
CASE FILE
The Dominican Republic’s Digital Investment Ledger Has No Clock
Decree 714-26 gives the public-administration ministry a way to classify and track strategic digital projects while leaving procurement authority with the institutions that already hold it. The register has required fields, but no update interval.
Leaders
A Candidate Needs a Year. A Voter Needs Six Months. Hernán Moguilevsky Helped Draw the Line.
LACNIC opens its policy forum to everyone, then asks a different question at the ballot box: how long have you been in the room? The election rule Moguilevsky co-wrote gives candidates and voters different answers.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Anatel Tests a Data-Free Complaint Door. Carriers Keep Two Keys.
Brazil’s telecom regulator is testing a complaint channel that consumes no mobile data, even for a prepaid customer with no credit. The entry ticket is still an active line on the provider’s network.
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends
Anatel’s New Committee Can Publish Auction Data. Can It Watch the Projects?
The proposed policy committee gets a window into results from spectrum-auction commitments, while its draft charter bars two review functions. One verb in the Board vote did not make it into the published carve-out: monitoring.
Leaders
Hernán Arcidiácono Put Two Ledgers at IPv4’s Exit
An IPv4 block can leave a special reserve or start serving another network. Arcidiácono helped write a public log for each journey.
Leaders
Tomás Lynch Put a Clock on Zombie Proposals
At LACNIC, a proposal could lose consensus and keep occupying a chair for years. Lynch gave that chair a twelve-month reservation.
Leaders
Hernán Moguilevsky Sent the ROA Pen Downstairs
The network using an assigned IPv4 block had to ask the address holder to sign its routing permission. Moguilevsky put the pen closer to the engineer doing the work.
Leaders
Fernando Frediani Put a Keyhole in the Word “Exclusive”
An address block can be assigned exclusively and still travel through another network. Frediani helped write the sentence that says who gets to turn the key.
Leaders
Evandro Varonil Cut the ISP Entrance Ticket to 256 Addresses
An aspiring network operator used to need a 1,024-address first ticket in LACNIC's region. Evandro Varonil asked why a young ISP had to buy a four-seat table when it needed one chair.
Leaders
Edmundo Cázarez-López Put 131,072 IPv4 Addresses Behind Glass
The network can run out of addresses while a new critical facility still needs them. Cázarez-López wrote a special reserve for that awkward day, complete with a size limit, a return rule and a sharp penalty for changing its purpose.
Leaders
Nicolás Antoniello Asked Who Could Order a Router Around
An IPv6 dispute proposal told IPv4-only networks to upgrade to dual stack. Antoniello, an engineer and former LACNIC policy-forum moderator, challenged the verb. The next draft turned an order into advice.