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📡 From VTR Chile to the team in Europe: what I learned about managing projects in a regional telco

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...

📶 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...

🎯 I Never Studied to Be a Project Manager. I Learned in Production.

From fixing computers at 17 to leading projects across multiple countries — what no course can teach you.

At 17 I was already fixing computers in offices. Most of the time I had no idea what the problem was. So I did the only thing I could: list everything that could be failing… and rule things out one by one until I found the cause. Without knowing it, I was already thinking like a PM. From tech...