Latin America and Caribbean Trends
Latin America and Caribbean Trends
Latin America and Caribbean market trend intelligence tracks cloud service, regional ISP, national telecom, data centre, and institutional infrastructure signals across Latin American and Caribbean internet infrastructure markets. BTW.
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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.
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Unifique brings the 700 MHz. The gateway bill stays blank
Unifique and two other Brazilian mobile operators will supply their 700 MHz frequencies and pay for ground gateways in an AST SpaceMobile deal. The filing leaves Unifique’s own cost and launch schedule unwritten.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s New Drone Band Has One Awkward Guest Question: Can It Talk to Air Traffic Control?
Anatel proposes ten 200 kHz channels between 468 and 470 MHz for remotely piloted aircraft. Brazil’s existing rulebook gives that category a surprisingly specific guest list.
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.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s Mobile Market Meets Anatel’s National Target. The Municipal Data Add a Second Test
Anatel says Brazil’s national mobile-market concentration indicator met its 2027 target in the third quarter. In the same report, its municipality-level analysis shows a much less even picture: concentration rises as population falls. The two findings measure different scales…
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter
Ascenty: The Megawatt That Travels Without Its Basis
Brazil's data-centre buildout is routinely described in megawatts, but the documents gathered for this report on 18 October 2026 contain no megawatt figure for Ascenty Data Centers e Telecomunicações S/A at all — and that gap is the story, because the unit itself is doing work…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil can cut a prison phone's mobile access before officers seize it
Rio's first operation under a new administrative procedure produced an official tally of 143 blocked devices. The next question is what happens between identifying a handset, restricting it and correcting a mistake.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
In Chile's cable clean-up, silence can sign off the work
A municipality has 30 days to answer a handover request before acceptance is presumed. That keeps the paperwork moving. It does not tell a resident what happened at the pole.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
ECTEL can change the spectrum bill. What about yours?
For an operator, cheaper access to airwaves could make a network investment more attractive. For a household, the question is simpler: will the connection work better, and will the bill hurt less?
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Vahos was in the register. The name search missed it.
A Colombian community operator appeared to leave no official trace. Its tax number opens a different story—and a more useful question about who keeps a small network connected.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Sercomtel's exit from the old phone contract has a price—and a delivery address
The Brazilian operator's settlement turns a dispute over a fixed-line concession into commitments to mobile coverage and school connectivity. Reading the price correctly is the first step towards judging what the public gets.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Turks and Caicos turns satellite access into two different bills
Turks and Caicos has made satellite licensing more concrete by separating permission to provide a network or service from permission to use spectrum. Its new fee schedule makes that distinction financial as well as legal: one charge follows revenue, another follows the frequency…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Uruguay’s Fibre Trunk Cuts Exposed a Cross-Layer Dependency
Four terrestrial fibre-trunk cuts on 13 October did more than interrupt domestic transport routes in Uruguay. Their simultaneous effect also constrained access to international submarine-cable capacity reaching Maldonado, showing how a terrestrial failure can become an…
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends
Five Caribbean islands joined the exchange; local routing is the test
The Eastern Caribbean Internet Exchange now reaches five named islands through a cable operator, a local network and an exchange platform. That is a meaningful extension of regional infrastructure. It does not yet tell readers how much traffic stays local, which island networks…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
AT&T Mexico’s sale hinges on more than closing
AT&T calls the proposed sale a US$2 billion exit. The buyer documents describe a 50–50 consortium, a financing plan, regulatory conditions and transition agreements still to be completed. The transfer is a sequence, not a single signature.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
A public consultation is a record of decisions, not a vote: Anatel’s new rule
When regulation can alter a network operator’s investment plan, consultation is useful only if a firm can later see what happened to the evidence it submitted. Anatel’s new procedure creates that trace from comment to reasoned disposition; it gives entities a route into the…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s 6 GHz auction ties the last payment to operating proof
Anatel’s proposed regional infrastructure fund would pay for neutral hubs and smaller edge sites only where private provision falls short. Its strongest safeguard is the sequence: test the market, fund only the viability gap, then hold back money until the network has worked in…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s data-price proxies reveal a wide state-level spread
Anatel’s Q2 2026 accounts show lower revenue-per-gigabyte proxies alongside heavier average use. The state tables make the comparison more useful—and more dangerous—because neither figure is a household tariff or an affordability measure.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Mexico’s rural broadband order needs two delivery tests
The Comisión Reguladora de Telecomunicaciones has set out two routes for extending rural access through Telmex and Telnor. A connection point for a local provider and a household fibre offer sit at different places in the network; the public record should measure them separately.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s Wi-Fi Plan Puts AFC Operator Exit in the Continuity Test
Anatel’s paired proposals would let outdoor Wi-Fi share the lower 6 GHz band through automated frequency coordination. They also make the continuity of that service depend on database freshness, outage windows and what happens when an authorized AFC operator leaves.