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🌐 AI & Telecom Trends – May 2026: Five Signals Worth Keeping on Your Radar

Chilean startups with real traction, Claude on Wall Street, network traffic that no longer follows the human model, 5G without monetization, and a security risk nobody budgeted for.

May has been eventful. Chilean startups with real traction, Claude moving into Wall Street in ways ChatGPT still cannot replicate, and a couple of infrastructure and security signals the market is not discussing enough. Here are five things worth keeping on your radar this week — especially ...

🔇 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...

📡 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...

🏗️ 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...

⚡ 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 ...

📡 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...