Digicel has appointed Deep Blue Cable as a specialist supporting the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP), a multi-million dollar, 15-year ICT contract with the Governments of the Caribbean nations of Saint Lucia, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Gilat Satellite Networks and Hispamar, the Brazilian unit of Hispasat, are launching a new high-quality satellite-based broadband connectivity service in order to extend Internet access to the parts of the country that are currently digitally isolated.

Brazil’s Aloo Telecom has deployed the Infinera Cloud Xpress and Infinera DTN-X to address increasing bandwidth demand on its long-haul and data centre interconnect networks.

Latin America’s pay TV market has received a boost from this year’s World Cup – and online services are hoping for a boost from regional club football.

OTT services continue to be a hot topic lately, as recent news from India and Latin America proves.

Digicel has certainly come a long way since it was an upstart operator entering the Jamaican market in 2001.

Brazilian airline Latam, part of the Chilean-Brazilian Latam Airlines Group – the largest airline in Latin America with subsidiaries in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru – has launched in-flight WiFi on board nine A319 aircraft in domestic routes.

After being linked last week to a possible bid for Nextel Brazil, Telecom Italia has confirmed that its board is considering its investment strategy, which could include divesting non-core assets.

Nexans has manufactured and tested 6,000 km of submarine fibre optic cables for the South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) project connecting Cameroon to Brazil, enabling a faster and more stable Internet connection between Africa and South America.

Mobile platform and services provider Syntonic is forming a new Brazilian unit to expand into South America following its asset purchase of the Zenvia Mobile Servicos Digitais business unit.

Vodafone Group has formed a new partner market agreement with Telecom Argentina as part of an effort to strengthen its presence in Latin America.

GlobeNet and Facebook have begun construction of the new submarine cable system that they announced in May.

Sky and Space Global, which works to provide affordable communications to the world's equatorial regions, has expanded its reach into Indonesia and Suriname.

New research from Tutela analysing 4G speeds in Brazil shows that Vivo and Claro are battling for first place in the Latin American market.

A mobile wallet pilot project is being launched in Colombia by a collaboration between state-run Banco Agrario, mobile operator Telefonica Colombia, and mobility firm Comviva.

The government of Colombia is looking to sell its 32.5% stake in Telefonica’s local unit Coltel for COP2.3 trillion ($791 million).

Gilat Satellite Networks has partnered with satellite firm Hispasat to commercialise the latter’s Ka band satellite capacity over Brazil.

Sky and Space Global is holding discussions with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) about the use of its novel nano-satellite technology in the region.

Telecom Argentina has announced that the ARBR submarine cable system between Argentina and Brazil (ARBR) will land in its cable landing station in Las Toninas.

Over the last few years, the Peruvian telecoms regulator OSIPTEL has been introducing a series of measures to boost competition in the mobile communications market.

TCT Brasil has announced an agreement to distribute solutions from IoT specialist Kerlink in Brazil.

Uruguay has taken the top spot on BuddeComm’s Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index (TMI).

Peru’s Fitel (Fondo de Inversion en Telecomunicaciones / Telecommunications Investment Fund) has awarded two additional regional telecommunications infrastructure projects to Gilat Satellite Networks.

Bolivian triple-play service provider COTAS has selected ECI and Siscotec to expand its current network in line with increased customer demand.