Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Sharing agreements and investment funds mark the pulse of mergers and acquisitions

The outlook for sales and acquisitions in 2022 throughout Latin America has infrastructure as one of its mainstays. Brazil is the market where this process is most strongly and continuously noticeable. Telefónica was a forerunner in the neutral network business, with operations in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and now Peru.

Agreements to achieve a more efficient use of infrastructure, and buy-sell operations to acquire fiber networks, generated the main movements in the Latin American telco sector during 2022, and will be key in the expansion of fixed broadband and the support of 5G networks in 2023. Many of them, are promoted by investment funds, which are increasing their footprint in the regional market. Brazil is the market in bloom in this regard, with three central players of neutral networks - V.tal, FiBrasil, and I-Systems - as a result of the main merger and acquisition processes that have taken place in the country, together with the breakup of Oi.

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