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Three years after the Free Trade Agreement was ratified and put into effect between the US and Colombia, both sides are already seeing tangible benefits. Vital in managing the trade relations between the two countries, the US Commercial Service works out of the United States...

Yesterday, Colombia’s Development Finance Agency, FDN (Financiera Nacional de Desarrollo) announced the successful financing of the first three 4G (Fourth Generation) highway concessions, expanding the country’s ground transportation infrastructure. This will facilitate...

Colombia’s Finance Ministry (Minhacienda) head Mauricio Cardenas said Tuesday at Bogotá’s Bloomberg Conference that the government will propose a national budget of “Intelligent Austerity”—belt tightening in public sector spending, and supporting private sector growth into a...

In the last two years, the construction sector has grown 9% as a part of the Colombian economy. According to the Colombian Construction Chamber of Commerce (Camacol) estimates, building construction used $28.5 billion in products and services, over 40% more than in 2010; evidence...

Colombia has turned out to be one of the major players in the growth of LTE in Latin America due to early commercial launches of the technology in 2012, preceding even the launches in the US by Sprint and T-Mobile and beating out markets like Denmark, Spain, France and Italy. The...

Colombia’s Minister of Finance, Mauricio Cardenas, revealed Thursday that Colombia will have access to a credit line of US $ 400 million with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE for its initials in Spanish). Colombia has been a non-regional member of the BCIE...

Latin America has seen a substantial increase in LTE deployments and subscribers with an impressive 488% annual growth from 2 million LTE connections at end of 2013 to 12 million at the end of 2014. This growth is due in large part to the spectrum auctions that have occurred...

Empresa Telefónica de Bogotá (ETB), claiming to be the second oldest existing telephone company on the planet, has been making impressive moves in 2014 and 2015, transforming its business model into a modern digital communications enterprise. CEO Saul Kattan Cohen was recognized...

The General Shareholders’ Meeting of 2015 took place yesterday for Empresa Telefónica de Bogotá (ETB), where an improvement in the telecom’s balance sheet of an increase in equity (25.6%) and a decrease in liabilities (29.1%) during the last three years was the highlight,...