An AT&T asset sale has begun with palming off wireline and wireless assets in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands to Liberty Latin America, weeks after the US operator denied reports it was exploring the sale of its DirecTV satellite TV business. AT&T will retain DirecTV assets in the two countries along with the FirstNet business, but we can’t help feeling that its Latin American exodus is a precursor to something much bigger. Orange’s Livebox 5 set top and gateway has arrived in France, purpose-built for addressing bandwidth sharing limitations in the home without needing an additional fiber optical network terminal. The next gen hardware delivers up to 2 Gbps down and 600 Gbps up, installed with smart…