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Internet Para Todos (IPT) Making Progress in Connecting The Unconnected Peruvians

(click on image for larger version) I have written couple of posts on 'Internet Para Todos' a.k.a. 'Internet For All' on The 3G4G Blog and 3G4G Small Cells Blog . It was good to hear an update on the programme at TIP Summit 2019 in Amsterdam.  I have embedded the video of the presentation below but here is a quick summary from Justin Springham in Mobile World Live from TIPSummit19: Internet para Todos (IpT), a wholesale operator owned by Telefonica, Facebook, and Latin American banks IDB Invest and CAF Bank, opened talks to bring a second operator on board, after connecting more than 650 sites and covering 800,000 people (450,000 actual customers) with a 4G rollout in rural Peru. The initiative, only up and running since May 2019, is regarded as something of a poster child for OpenRAN technology, with vendor Parallel Wireless supplying compatible kit for more than half of those mobile sites (reports suggest Huawei is the other vendor, supplying more tradi...