Press Release
The two operators join forces to launch a novel low-latency terrestrial route linking Peru and Brazil via Bolivia
Sparkle, one of the world’s leading global operators, and Entel Bolivia, Bolivia’s largest telecommunications company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly commercialize the terrestrial route connecting the Pacific and Atlantic coasts through Bolivia. The agreement, signed today on the sidelines of the ITW 26 global telecommunications event, focuses on bringing to market a high-performance alternative to existing submarine routes, meeting growing demand for scalable and resilient connectivity across regional digital ecosystems.
Latin America’s digital entertainment sector continues to expand rapidly, with Brazil acting as a central hub for game development, content distribution, and hosting services. However, several areas in western South America still rely on long-distance submarine or indirect international routes to reach the Atlantic, resulting in suboptimal performance for cloud gaming, real-time streaming, financial services, IoT and AI-driven applications.
The Bio-Oceanic Digital Corridor leverages Bolivia’s geographic position to establish a direct terrestrial pathway spanning approximately 4,370 kilometers across Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. The route enables connectivity between Lima and São Paulo with latency reduced to below 60 milliseconds, compared to more than 120 ms on traditional submarine routes exceeding 12,000 kms. Rather than relying on fragmented routing architectures, the initiative introduces a unified terrestrial backbone designed to improve performance, route diversity and service resilience for regional and international traffic flows.
Under the MoU, Sparkle and Entel Bolivia will jointly commercialize the corridor, offering high-performance connectivity to gaming companies, ISPs, OTT platforms, digital service providers, and data centers across the region. A flexible commercial model will allow customers to access capacity through either partner, with revenue-sharing mechanisms to be defined in a subsequent agreement.
Entel Bolivia will contribute its terrestrial backbone infrastructure spanning national and cross-border segments, underpinned by a high-availability network comprising over 44,000 kilometers of fiber, advanced transmission technology, and a redundant architecture, connecting Lurín (Peru) with Puerto Quijarro (Bolivia) and multiple international interconnection points. Sparkle will manage the Brazilian segment from Puerto Quijarro to São Paulo. Together, the partners establish a high-capacity digital corridor designed to scale up to 60 Tbps, enabling diversified traffic flows between the continent’s two oceanic gateways.
The two companies will coordinate sales, operations, and maintenance activities, to ensure high levels of availability, security, quality of service, and route diversity at continental scale, thereby strengthening network resilience across South America.
“We are proud to collaborate with Entel Bolivia on this ambitious project, which reflects our shared vision to accelerate the region’s digital integration and support the growth of gaming, OTT services and cloud-based solution across Latin America” said Enrico Bagnasco, CEO of Sparkle.
“This initiative consolidates Bolivia’s position as a digital corridor in South America, enabling the efficient interconnection of the Pacific and Atlantic digital ecosystems, and unlocking new opportunities for the development of high-capacity digital services across the region,” added Jorge del Solar, General Manager of Entel Bolivia.
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