America Movil and Telefonica's Telxius announce new Pacific undersea cable

News Broadband Latin America and the Caribbean 25 JUN 2019
America Movil and Telefonica's Telxius announce new Pacific undersea cable

America Movil and Telefonica's infrastructure subsidiary Telxius have announced plans to roll out a new 7,300 km submarine cable along the Pacific coast of Latin America. The two largest telecommunication groups in Latin America said the cable will connect Puerto San Jose (Guatemala) with Valparaiso (Chile) and have additional landing points in Salinas (Ecuador), Lurin (Peru) and Arica (Chile). It will have an initial estimated capacity of 108 Tbps with six fibre pairs offering the lowest possible latency between Guatemala and Chile, combined with the highest levels of service, reliability and security, said the partners in a joint statement.

No information was provided regarding the cost of the cable, but America Movil and Telxius said the five landing stations are already in place and undersea prospection works are currently under way. As a result, the system will be ready to operate by the end of 2020.

In January Telefonica reached an agreement to divest its Guatemala and El Salvador units to America Movil for a total of EUR 570 million, although the Salvadoran approval process remains ongoing.

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