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Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean 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.
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Chile Put 1,954 URLs on a Blocklist. Where Is the Clock to Take Them Off?
A five-day deadline tells network operators when to add a target. LACNIC's new blocking study asks for the other half of the job: a way to correct and retire it.
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Three LACNIC Board Seats, Five Candidates. Brazil Is Out Before the Vote.
LACNIC's 2026 slate puts three sitting directors against two challengers. The citizenship ceiling has already narrowed the field that members will see in November.
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LACNIC Can Shut the Service Window. The Draft Wants the Address Block Too.
A legacy holder who misses LACNIC's December paperwork deadline faces the loss of registration services under a Board call already in force. A new policy proposal would put recovery of the number resource itself on the table. The distance between those acts is where the argument…
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LACNIC Reached 9.39% of Legacy Holders. They Cover 24.67% of the IPv4.
The registry’s contact campaign is reaching a large slice of address space through a small slice of organizations. The December deadline still runs for everyone else.
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LACNIC's New Policy Referee Could Be a Version Number
Jordi Palet Martinez says he is correcting the language of LACNIC's policy process. The registry's own staff says his proposal changes who gets to judge a policy's evolution. That is a fight over the entity of a decision, tucked into a change labelled clarification.
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LACNIC Plans an IPv4 Side Door for December. Three Registries Keep Separate Keys.
The region's new third-party IPv4 sub-assignment policy has an opening month and a conspicuous wall. LACNIC says the first stage will work within each of its three registration systems. The bridge between them comes later, on a date nobody has announced. The deal over money will…
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LACNIC Starts Three Clocks for Routes It Won’t Guarantee
An address allocation can be entered in the registry before a single customer can reach it. LACNIC’s rule gives recipients three different deadlines to announce their resources, then places the negotiation for actual reachability with their connectivity providers. That division…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Jamaica’s 2600 MHz Homework: 95% Coverage, Measuring Tape Not Included
Jamaica’s Spectrum Management Authority is asking who wants 100 MHz in the 2600 MHz band. Any qualifying applicant able to start commercial service as soon as a licence is granted would also face a two-year coverage schedule for the general population and named underserved…
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Jorge Cano Changed LACNIC’s RPKI Engine. The Last Move Was a DNS Edit.
Replacing the machinery behind a trust anchor sounds like a job for a dramatic switch. Jorge Cano’s account of LACNIC’s RPKI migration ends with DNS records. The hard part came earlier: making sure validators did not choke on what the new engine served them.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
The Coverage Map Met a Road Test. Some Colours Had to Move
Arcep checked new graded 4G maps across five French Caribbean and Guiana territories. Field evidence prompted local corrections to the operator-supplied pictures.
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Sergio Rojas Got 51 Votes and a Very Complicated Microphone
LACNIC's 2024 co-chair election had one valid candidate and no ballot. Two years later, four people ran and 115 people voted. Sergio Rojas won the seat with 51 marks. The count was clear; the job it awarded him is built around the moments when counting stops being useful.
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Bevil Wooding Made ARIN's Caribbean Desk a Storm-Season Switchboard
After the 2017 hurricanes, a registry job built for outreach acquired a sharper question: who already knows the operator, the regulator and the person who can reconnect them? Wooding's answer was to make those introductions part of the work.
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Publishing ASPA Is the Easy Part. Getting It Into a Router Is the Plot.
LACNIC has put ASPA creation in MiLACNIC and validation in FORT. The interesting handoff comes next: a valid object still has to travel through a validator, a router protocol and a local routing policy before it can change a decision.
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REGULATEL Has the Working Group. LACNIC Has the MOU. Give Them a Job.
LACNIC and REGULATEL have signed a broad cooperation pact. REGULATEL already has an Internet Affairs group with a remit for technical and governance work. Put the agreement there and ask for an output with a date.
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LACNIC Wants 80% ROA Coverage. Its Evidence Counts Something Else.
A LACNIC proposal would make valid ROA coverage a condition for an organization’s next resource allocation. The 80% threshold is crisp; the evidence cited for it measures regional route validity, a different quantity.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Arcep’s 465,000 mobile tests leave two territories in the queue
The regulator’s 2026 survey covers five Caribbean and South American territories, with results from Réunion and Mayotte still to come. It also changes the test baseline: Guadeloupe and Martinique joined the 5G measurement map for the first time.
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Raúl Echeberría's Two Offices: Executive Authority at LACNIC, Board Authority at ISOC
Raúl Echeberría worked at the crossing of two institutions whose responsibilities often meet in public debate but do not share a chain of command. At LACNIC he led an organisation that allocated Internet number resources and served a membership that also governed it. At the…
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The deciding seat the record never assigns: Laura Kaplan and LACNIC's development money
A directory entry calls her an internet-development and regional-cooperation practitioner. A regional support programme, two outside organisations checked against it, and a governance body all sit inside that description. None of the documents reviewed for this briefing names her…
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The seat and the decision: what Lito Ibarra's record can and cannot prove
El Salvador's country-code domain was run by a man whom the record credits with a pricing decision that determined who could afford to be on the web at all. Four governing boards he later sat on published decisions of their own. Only the first layer leaves a judgement attached to…
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The Gateway That Points Back: A DHCP Draft Adds a Legacy-Client Escape Hatch
Version 03 of an individual Internet-Draft adds a conditional DHCPv4 Router Option for clients that require one: the host's own address or 127.0.0.1. The author says this should keep non-local IPv4 traffic on the host, but no published test yet shows how operating systems handle…