As part of its Q2 2021 financial results report presentation, the telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Chile and the rest of Latin America, except for Brazil, are branded as ‘Movistar’, reported that fiber accesses (FTTH) in Chile grew 62.7% year-on-year. According to the information reported, the company ended June with 974 thousand FTTH accesses. [...]
As part of its Q2 2021 results report presentation, the telecommunications company Movistar Colombia (Telefonica) reported that its IPTV offer ended the period with 247 thousand subscribers (a figure that means a 79.6% year-on-year growth). Likewise, Movistar TV’s clients totaled 527 thousand at the end of the period. In relation to the company’s fixed business, [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are known under the ‘Movistar’ brand, is negotiating to sell part of its FTTH network in Peru. The information was reported on several specialized websites, including the Spanish economic newspaper ‘Cinco Dias’ web version The news came after, in November 2020, Movistar Peru announced the creation of [...]
Telecommunications companies Liberty Latin America and Telefonica have officially announced this last Monday, August 2nd that Costa Rican President, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, has allowed the sale of Telefonica’s operations in the country -where they are known as ‘Movistar’- to Liberty Latin America’s 80% subsidiary, Cabletica. Both companies expect the transaction to be closed in mid-August. [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are branded as ‘Movistar’, has officially announced this last Friday, July 16th, a new partnership agreement with the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) investment fund to create a new company, which will be in charge to deploying FTTH in Colombia. According to the officially reported information, the aim [...]
ON*NET Fibra announced this last Wednesday, July 14th, it has started operating in Chile. It is a new wholesaler that will offer an open and neutral FTTH service and will promote access to broadband services. The company comes up as a result of the acquisition by the KKR investment fund of 60% of InfraCO, a [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica Peru, where, as in the rest of the Latin American countries where it operates, it does so under the ‘Movistar‘ brand, has officially announced this last Monday, July 12th, that it has requested the Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversion Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), entity in charge of regulating the public telecommunications services [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are branded as ‘Movistar’, has announced this last Wednesday, July 7th, a partnership with the TikTok platform, specialized in short videos. According to the information reported by the company, the alliance includes various initiatives that will be developed in the markets where Telefonica operates in Europe and [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica and US multinational company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) have officially announced this last Friday, July 2nd, the closing of the transaction for 100% of InfraCO, a standalone company that will be in charge of operating the first free FTTH network access in Chile. The transaction is valued at about USD 1 billion. [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Brazil are branded as ‘Vivo’, has announced that FiBrasil has officially started operating in the country. The new company is called ‘FiBrasil Infraestrutura e Fibra Ótica S.A., and it is a neutral fiber optic operator created by Telefonica Brasil, Telefonica Infra -the company’s infrastructure unit-, and the global investment [...]