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🌐 The Silent Crisis in Telecommunications: Networks More Critical Than Ever, but an Industry Under Growing Pressure (2026)

The work didn't disappear. What disappeared was the margin.

There was a time when working in telecommunications meant being inside an industry that seemed to grow almost naturally. More customers. More coverage. More rollouts. More investment. More projects. Today the feeling is different. And I am not talking only about Chile. In conversations wit...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 15, 2026

📡 From VTR Chile to the team in Europe: two sides of the same model

Local and offshore teams, Liberty Global, outsourcing, and telecom in Chile: a view from both sides of the same call.

It is ten in the morning in the Netherlands. A biweekly sync with one market just ended — calendar for the next two weeks, blockers, what they need from us, what we learned in another country that might help them. Thirty minutes later the next one starts, with another market. This one is bigge...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 6, 2026

🏗️ AI and datacenters: the new infrastructure boom transforming Latin America

Capital, permits, lead times, and coordination: what happens after the contract is signed on AI infrastructure projects.

There is a kind of kickoff meeting that looks straightforward on paper. The client arrives with requirements defined, budget approved, timelines clear. It is all there, in the deck. The team nods. The minutes are signed. Six months later, that same client calls to say the specifications chang...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 4, 2026

⚡ 5G Has Reached Latin America. The Hard Part Is Next.

Coverage, a 4G-backed core, and the leap still needed for 5G to become real infrastructure

Whenever someone in the industry says that Chile — or Brazil, or Colombia — already has 5G, the conversation often stops there. As if deployment were the end of the story. It is not. It is only the first chapter. Latin America has spent years building 5G coverage. Chile was the first in the ...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on May 3, 2026

📡 Millicom Landed in Chile. Here's What I Think Comes Next — and When

A view from inside the sector — not from a press release

When a major telecom acquisition is announced, the press releases always sound the same. Investment. Transformation. Customer focus. A new chapter. It’s not that it’s untrue. It’s that the real order of things rarely matches what appears on paper. I’ve spent several years working on technolo...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on April 28, 2026

📶 Chile and LATAM in Telecommunications: Record Investment, a Convulsed Market

What is really happening in the region, for those of us who work inside the sector

In telecom, Chile is now a case that is hard to ignore: it compresses into a short span processes that in other markets usually take decades — bankruptcies, acquisitions, a transpacific cable under installation, and legacy operators changing hands or disappearing. It is not a market in quiet g...

Posted by Claudio from ViaMind on April 23, 2026

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Consultant on complex technology projects. 15 years in telecommunications and critical infrastructure in Chile and Europe.

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Claudio Müller Pizarro

Claudio Müller Pizarro

Founder of ViaMind

Consultant on complex technology projects. 15 years in telecommunications and critical infrastructure in Chile and Europe.