Convergencia Research, Consultoría especializada en Latinoamérica y Caribe
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Movistar and Sion sign infrastructure sharing agreement, with a US$ 97.5 million investment

Compared to other models applied by Telefónica in Latin America -with KKR in Chile and Colombia, or with CPQD in Brazil-, this alliance shares the spirit, but not the modality, said Luis Delamer, Hispam Wholesale Director at Movistar, to Convergencialatina. “It is one of the first examples of network unbundling in the world. Where we could both make a fiber, but we choose to make one fiber and migrate our clients to it. The investment that we would have allocated can be transferred to AMBA and other cities,” he pointed out.


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