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AT&T’s says its retreat from Mexico will allow it to better focus on its US operations

AT&T has reached an agreement to sell AT&T Mexico to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash at closing, subject to certain adjustments, plus additional contractual and contingent benefits.

Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings will each holding 50% stake in AT&T Mexico following the deal.

In a press release, AT&T explained that the deal was part of its wider strategy to prioritise its fibre and wireless operations in the US.

The operator had been in talks to sell the business to Televisa since at least December 2025.

“We have articulated a strong belief that the AI future will run on converged networks with dense fiber assets,” said John Stankey, AT&T Chairman and CEO. “This move positions AT&T Mexico to participate in that evolution and is consistent with our long-term strategy to focus our capital allocation on opportunities for growth in the vibrant U.S. market.”

For Grupo Televisa, the move will combine AT&T’s wireless network with its own wireless, fixed broadband, and broadcasting assets, allowing to offer combined fixed and mobile packages to customers.

Televisa’s total share of fixed and wireless subscribers in Mexico is expected to rise ​to 19% from 8% as a result of the deal.

For Fintech Holdings, the investment vehicle owned by Mexican billionaire David Martinez, the deal represents a deepening of its relationship with Televisa, in which it owns a 22.3% stake.

AT&T entered the Mexican market in 2015 with the purchase of mobile operators Iusacell and Nextel Mexico for $2.5 billion and $1.875 billion, respectively. The companies were quickly combined as AT&T Mexico, with AT&T aiming to take on the dominance of the incumbent mobile operator, América Móvil’s Telcel.

Despite over a decade of competition and building the country’s second largest mobile network, AT&T Mexico ultimately failed to significantly displace Telcel. In March 2026, Telcel had around 84.5 million mobile subscribers, more than three times AT&T Mexico’s 24 million.

Given its existing broadband and broadcasting footprint, Televisa will hope to offer a greater challenge.

The deal is subject to typical regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.

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BT International today announced the expansion of its Global Fabric network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform with a choice of security service edge (SSE) solutions to support multinational customers’ rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents, cloud applications and autonomous digital workflows.

As organisations adopt AI at scale, traffic patterns across the network are dramatically changing. A growing number of users, AI agents, applications and devices are demanding more bandwidth, lower latency and access to multiple clouds from more locations. Many CIOs now find that traditional network and security architectures lack the performance, scale, visibility and control needed to support these new demands.

By providing optimised connectivity between Global Fabric and SSE solutions from leading vendors Cisco, Fortinet, Netskope and Zscaler, BT International enables customers to select more predictable, high-performance routes for their traffic, improving application responsiveness and delivering the best user experience.

It does this thanks to Global Fabric’s cloud-centric architecture. Unlike traditional SSE deployments, where traffic may cross many third-party internet networks before reaching a security inspection point, Global Fabric provides optimised connectivity to the vendors’ security and cloud ecosystems at a choice of strategic cloud locations around the world.

The new capability extends Global Fabric’s growing ecosystem of networking, cloud and security services. It is the latest step in the expansion of the platform, which offers consistent security, optimised application performance and proactive network management in a single controlled environment built on a brand-new network underlay.

Yash Jethani, Principal Analyst, ISG, said: “The convergence of networking and security is ultimately about enabling trust at scale. Global enterprises increasingly require a cloud-delivered operating model that provides resilient connectivity, consistent security enforcement and simplified operations across users, applications, AI agents and digital ecosystems worldwide. The ability to deliver that trust consistently across markets will be a key competitive differentiator.”

Matt Swinden, managing director, strategy & product, BT International, said: “Agentic AI is changing what organisations need from networks. AI agents depend on secure, reliable access to applications, data and cloud services in real time, creating new demands for performance, resilience and security. By bringing together SSE with Global Fabric, we’re helping customers build an AI-ready network foundation upon which they can scale innovation and automation and choose the best security services to meet their needs.”

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The deal is expected to boost the lifespan of the company’s aging submarine cables around Svalbard 

Space Norway has announced a new deal with Ciena to modernise the Svalbard Undersea Cable System and its upcoming Arctic Way cable system with the latest optical technolgy.

The deal will see Space Norway’s existing infrastructure upgraded with Ciena’s latest optical technology, including the Ciena 6500 Optical Platform, WaveLogic 6 Extreme, Spectrum Sharing, and the Navigator Network Control Suite.

The same technology will also be used in the upcoming Arctic Way Cable System.

This, the company said, will ‘expand the operational lifespan’ of the Svalbard Undersea Cable System and expanding secure, high-resilience connectivity across the Acrtic region.

“Reliable connectivity is essential in the Arctic, where our infrastructure supports critical activities and demanding operational requirements,” said Pia Birgitte Bruhn, acting Vice President of Cable Systems at Space Norway. “By working with Ciena, we are extending the operational life of our existing Svalbard cable systems while preparing Arctic Way for service. This investment will strengthen the resilience and capacity of our subsea network and support the region’s long-term connectivity needs.”

Space Norway is a satellite company owned by the Norwegian state that operates hybrid infrastructure, comprising satellites, teleports, fibre networks, and subsea cables. The company provides mission-critical communications relied upon by research, scientific, and national security organisations.

The company operates the Svalbard Undersea Cable System, which began service in 2004 and spans roughly 2,714 km from Breivika in northern Norway to Longyearbyen, Svalbard’s largest town.

Currently, Svalbard only has one other submarine cable: the Longyearbyen–Ny-Ålesund route on the west of the archipelago operated by Sikt, the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research.

However, this will change in the coming years through the deployment of Space Norway’s upcoming Arctic Way system. Announced in 2025, will connect Bodø, Norway, to Longyearbyen, with separate branch to the remote island of Jan Mayen, home to Beerenberg, the most northern active volcano in the world.

While Svalbard and Jan Mayen have few or no permanent residents, they remain of high strategic importance for Norway. Svalbard, for example, notably hosts SvalSat, a crucial satellite ground station that monitors the Arctic region for which reliable backhaul is crucial.

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