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Millicom International Cellular, a leading telecommunications company in Latin America, has announced a long-term commercial agreement with digital infrastructure provider Trans Americas Fibre System (TAFS).

Through the agreement Millicom says it will be able to expand and strengthen its international network infrastructure and resilience across Central America.

As part of this partnership, Millicom will enhance its international capacity through TAFS' open-access, carrier-neutral platform, thus, it says, reinforcing its ability to meet the region's rapidly growing demand for reliable, high-capacity digital services.

The TAM-1 system is a next-generation subsea fibre optic network spanning approximately 7,000 kilometres, designed to establish direct links between the United States, the Eastern Caribbean, Central America and Colombia in South America, with each fibre pair supporting a minimum of 18Tbps of capacity.

The system comprises two complementary segments: a northern system connecting Hollywood, Florida with Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and a southern system anchored by main trunk from Vero Beach, Florida to St Croix in the US Virgin Islands, with connections to Puerto Rico and branches extending to Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia.

Through this infrastructure, Millicom says it will benefit from increased route diversity, enhanced redundancy, improved network resilience and greater scalability, which it describes as key elements to ensure consistent, low-latency service for operators, enterprises, governments and end users across multiple markets.

Alejandro Guerrero, VP of Strategic Operations & Wholesale Solutions, explains: "This platform will link North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean in one unified, high-capacity platform that replaces aging infrastructure and meets the growing demand for bandwidth."

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