ICT: The week in 10 stories

MEXICO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is already in talks with Mexico's incoming government with the aim of helping it accomplish its stated goals of lowering the state's running costs.

BRAZIL

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's plans to merge ministries, privatize state-run companies and slash public spending could jeopardize ongoing ICT initiatives and programs, local officials told BNamericas.

BRAZIL

Brazilian President Michel Temer has appointed Anatel counselor and board member Leonardo Euler de Morais (pictured), director of the agency's spectrum and orbit committee, as the new president of the telecom watchdog for a three-year term.

BOLIVIA

Trilogy International Partners, a telco with operations in Bolivia and New Zealand, posted a 1% drop in revenues to US$190mn in 3Q18, as competitive pricing changes ahead of the introduction of number portability in Bolivia on October 1 drove down data revenues.

CHILE

Chilean telco Entel posted a 5.3bn-peso (US$7.7mn) net loss in 3Q18 compared to a profit of 17.7bn pesos in the same period of 2017, as gains in Peru were offset by stiff competition in Chile, the company said in a statement.

CHILE

Chilean lender Banco Consorcio said on Thursday that it has lost just under US$2mn in a cyberattack earlier this week.

PERU

Peru's transport and communications ministry MTC has approved a decree mandating a reshuffling of spectrum with a view to paving the way for the arrival of 5G technology.

REGIONAL

Liberty Latin America saw 50% year-on-year growth in penetration of LTE services in 3Q18, although this technology still only represents a third of its total subscriber base, and residential Wi-Fi continues to be the technology of choice in the home for families connecting multiple devices.

REGIONAL

In an interview with BNamericas, Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab talks about the bad publicity his company has suffered over the last year and on the cyber security challenges faced by the growing threat from North Korea.

REGIONAL

Spanish ride-sharing company Cabify is looking at a shared electric scooter scheme in Latin America, with announced deployments in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile, as well as in Spain.