The Geography of 5G: Lessons from Alaska
For three decades, I have sat at the table with regulators in capitals such as Bogotá, Basseterre, London, and Seoul, and the conversation about rural connectivity almost always begins in...
Starlink Mobile Isn’t Built for the Global South
On October 8, SpaceX announced what appeared to be its next step in broadband connectivity and mobile access: ending its reliance on third parties and launching its own mobile service...
Sensing Without Surveillance in the Global South
Many countries in the so-called Global South continue to expand their 4G mobile networks while seeing little need to deploy non-standalone 5G networks across much of their territory. Africa, for...
Why Aren’t There More Telecom Operators? Ten Years Later, the Answer Is Fewer.
In October 2015, I published a column in Spanish that tried to answer a question I kept hearing across Latin America. If information and communications technologies are so important to...
Brazil Can Gain from U.S. H-1B Restrictions
Over the past twelve months, Washington, DC, has adopted three immigration measures that, in the long term, may prove counterproductive for the United States. First, it imposes a $100,000 fee...
Analysis of Mexico’s National Radio Spectrum Program 2026–2030
The National Radio Spectrum Program 2026–2030 (PNER), published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación) on May 18, 2026, and jointly issued by the Digital...
Technology, Power, and the New Global Order
On January 8, 2026, a White House communiqué announced the United States’ withdrawal from 66 international organizations as part of the “America First” policy agenda. This decision represents a significant...
Promised Technology, Postponed Development
As the end of 2025 approaches, the telecommunications industry in Latin America leaves us with a landscape in which several hopes remain alive, as they were not fulfilled in the...
Mexico’s 3rd Proposal for a List of Mobile Users
The work of Carlos Fuentes depicts scenarios in which repetition perpetuates harmful patterns; in turn, Octavio Paz called for a break with modern manifestations of repetition. The poet perceived them...
Colombia: Progress, Challenges, and Its Digital Future
The telecommunications market in Colombia is undergoing a crucial period of transformation, marked by an ambitious technological expansion strategy, deep structural inequalities, and decreasing competition, as suggested by announcements of...
