The Superintendence of Telecommunications, as Sectorial Competition Authority, approved the purchase by Cabletica of 100% of the operations of Telefonica de Costa Rica, which offers telephony and mobile Internet services nationwide.
Last year, countries in the region imported communication radios for $52 million, and Central American purchases from Mexican companies increased by 79% compared to what was reported in 2019.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with the graph"]
The Inter-American Development Bank approved a line of credit, whose funds will be used to finance a program that seeks to increase the country's digital connectivity levels by strengthening institutional and operational capacity.
With a $70 million investment, of which $45 million will be financed by the ordinary capital of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and $25 million by the Korean Fund for the Co-financing of Infrastructure Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (KIF), the program will increase the institutional and operational capacity that will allow the development of a digital agenda and improve connectivity, through investment and improvements in the conditions for the adoption of digital infrastructure solutions, according to an official statement.
After the session between Sutel and the operators interested in participating in the public auction of the 5G network, the businessmen ask the authorities to draw up a roadmap and a schedule that includes the recovery and availability of the required frequencies.
Claro, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), Telefónica, Call May Way, Huawei Technologies Costa Rica, Next Curve, Telecable, Viasat and Cabletica, were some of the 12 operators that attended the hearing called by the Superintendence of Telecommunications (Sutel), in which the willingness of the companies to participate in the public auction of the frequencies of the radioelectric spectrum in question was known.
The Panama Metro is tendering the service of preventive, corrective, aesthetic and predictive maintenance of the telecommunications equipment of Line 1, for three years.
Panama Government Purchase 2020-2-80-0-08-LP-002880:
"Lines to be contracted:
-Corrective, aesthetic and predictive preventive maintenance service of the equipment of the APIS, TETRA, SCADA, ATS systems and Third Level Support of the CCTV and Telephone System of Line 1 of the Panama Subway.
The National Registry of Persons of Guatemala tenders the services of installation of point to point links, redundant systems, dark fiber and Internet.
Guatemala Government Purchase 12489514:
"Detail of the required:
-360 point-to-point links of 5 Mbps minimum, installed between RENAP headquarters Calzada Roosevelt 13-46 zone 7 and the Registry, Auxiliary and Administrative Offices.
After Millicom announced that it exercised its right to cancel the Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Telefonica's operating subsidiary in Costa Rica, the Spanish firm will focus on strengthening its operations in the Central American country.
Eight months after the Telecommunications Superintendence authorized the economic concentration requested for Millicom to buy the shares of Telefónica de Costa Rica TC S.A., the parties announced on May 2nd that they had decided to rescind the agreement.
The Costa Rican Institute of Electricity tenders the maintenance services and installations in the telecommunications network in the central and northern Pacific sector, under the delivery on demand modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LA-000022-0000400001:
"The Contractor must have the following equipment and tools
Millicom announced that it exercised its right to terminate the Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Telefonica's operating subsidiary in the Central American country.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute tenders the maintenance service and installations in the telecommunications network, for the western metropolitan region.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LI-000002-0000400001:
"The contracted service will be carried out in the established area, in the territory covered by each plant that makes up the lines, with a scope of action in exceptional cases of 60 kilometers around the limit of the contracted area.
The Costa Rican Institute of Electricity tenders the maintenance service in the telecommunications network for the Huetar Atlántico area, under the delivery on demand modality.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LA-000001-0000400001:
"Maintenance service and facilities in the telecommunications network (Voice, broadband and TV). The Contractor must guarantee that the works executed will be carried out with the highest quality, complying with the requirements of the contracting sign and the applicable standards by the trained staff, the guarantee for these works will be of two (2) months in case of the installations and readjustments and of one (1) month in case of breakdowns, from the date in which ICE receives the service to its full satisfaction the Contractor will be committed to correct at its own expense and risk, including transportation and any other additional expense, all the works executed that do not comply with the requirements and standards indicated by ICE.
With the admission of a new procedure for the authorization of economic concentration, presented by América Movil and Telefonica de El Salvador, begins "the technical, economic and legal analysis that will determine whether or not the transaction will cause a significant limitation of competition."
Both companies submitted this third application for authorization on 19 September this year.
After rejecting the two previously filed applications, El Salvador's Superintendence of Competition confirmed that it had received a new request for América Móvil to complete the acquisition process of Telefónica.
The Mayor's Office of Managua filed a lawsuit against Millicom, arguing that the company has a debt of almost $1 million on account of five years of arrears in the payment of the Real Estate tax.
The debt claimed by the City Hall corresponds to the alleged omission in the payment of the municipal tax corresponding to 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, a period in which the assets still belonged to Telefónica.
The Superintendence of Competition of El Salvador once again declared "inadmissible the request for authorization of economic concentration presented by América Móvil, which would consist of the acquisition of the share capital necessary to control Telefónica's operations."
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