{"id":2174367,"date":"2025-11-24T06:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2174367"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:44:12","slug":"waiken-to-invest-450-million-by-2031-in-its-latin-america-entertainment-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/waiken-to-invest-450-million-by-2031-in-its-latin-america-entertainment-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiken to invest $450 million by 2031 in its Latin America entertainment business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Nicol\u00e1s Misculin<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The newly formed Argentine-owned \u200bWaiken, parent company of Sky Brazil \u200cand DirecTV Latin America, said on Monday it will \u200cinvest $450 million by 2031 to boost its entertainment and telecommunications business in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waiken, which last year signed an agreement with Amazon \u2060through its subsidiary \u200cVrio Corp to offer satellite internet in South America, said it will \u200dalso expand its fiber-optic telecommunications business in Brazil with the acquisition of the company Proxxima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;In 2025 \u200band 2026 we are investing heavily in \u200cconnectivity, and we are focusing on Brazil at the moment,&#8221; Dar\u00edo Werthein, president of Waiken, told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The holding company, controlled by the Werthein \u2060Group, aims to \u200bboost its presence in the \u200bregion by developing its sports content, pay television, and satellite and fiber-\u200doptic telecommunications \u2060businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group intends to expand into the United States and other countries such as Paraguay,\u2060 Bolivia and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Nicol\u00e1s \u200cMisculin; Writing by Leila Miller; \u200cEditing by Nia Williams)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nicol\u00e1s Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The newly formed Argentine-owned \u200bWaiken, parent company of Sky Brazil \u200cand DirecTV Latin America, said on Monday it will \u200cinvest $450 million by 2031 to boost its entertainment and telecommunications business in the region. 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