UFINET is a multinational

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company headquartered in

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. It operates a

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History

UFINET is a neutral, carrier of carriers telecom company, meaning it focuses on B2B sales to enterprise customers, Tier 3 ISPs including leases of FTTH optical distribution networks, dark fiber, optical line terminals and optical network terminals, and internet transit for Tier 2 ISPs. It was created by

Unión Fenosa ''Unión Fenosa, S.A.'' was, until its acquisition by '' Gas Natural'' in 2009, a large Spanish company dedicated to the production and distribution of gas and electricity. It installed capacity of 11,120 megawatts of power and 8.9 million custo ...

(formerly known as Unión Fenosa Redes de Telecomunicación) in 1998. In 2009, it merged with the company Desarrollo de Cable, which belonged to the company

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, and this gave rise to Gas Natural Fenosa Telecomunicaciones (GNF Telecom). In 2014, CINVEN, an investment fund of private capital acquired the GNFT. The acquisition was carried out for a total of 510 million Euros. Since then, the company has traded as UFINET. In June 2018, ENEL acquired 21% of the company, while Cinven kept the remaining 79% Under the agreement, Enel X International has the right to exercise a call option to acquire the Sixth Cinven Fund’s stake between December 31st, 2020 and December 31st, 2021.

Business areas

UFINET provides telecommunication services through more than 70,000km of fiber optic network. Among the services provided are

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, co-location center, Ethernet (E-Line, E-Access, E-LAN, E-Tree), PDH/SDH7/SONET, Dark Fiber,

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(DIA, SOHO),

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(Satellite services),

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(Fiber to the Home), Towering,

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services, Direct cloud connectivity and other services (CPE Lease, Remote Hands, etc.). UFINET is a MEF Carrier Ethernet 3.0 (CE 3.0) certified for E-LINE, E-LAN, E-TREE and E-ACCESS capacity services.

Countries covered

UFINET currently has a presence in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. It also uses the facilities of

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providers such as CoreSite, providing

network access point Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks. IXPs are generally located at places with preexistin ...

s (NAP) in the Americas, New York, Los Angeles and Dominican Republic.

References

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External links

UfinetUnión FenosaServicios Satelitales de UfinetCinvenEnel
Multinational companies headquartered in Spain Telecommunications companies of South America Companies based in Madrid