Once the relevant regulatory approvals have been obtained, Telefonica Centroamerica Inversiones S.L. announced it has sold the entire Telefonica Moviles Panama S.A. shares capital to Cable Onda S.A., Millicom International Cellular’s subsidiary, for USD 594 million. According to what the company officially reported, after closing this operation, Telefonica has completed the sale of three of [...]
Concacaf announced the groups of the Women’s Qualifiers of Central America for the Olympic Games, which will be held next year in Japan. Costa Rican and Panamanian National Teams will be heading groups A and B, respectively. National Teams completing Group A with Costa Rica will be El Salvador and Nicaragua, while in Group B, [...]
The premium content platform for adults HOTGO Media announced Playboy TV and Venus channels are now added into Sky’s programming grid in in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Both channels are already available through a monthly subscription, PPV and HOTGO, from any device with an internet connection. [...]
The Belize Cable TV Operators Association (BCTVOA) and the HBO Latin America Group ran an agreement that ables the island’s pay TV operators to legally provide the channel’s catalog there for a two-year-period. Under this agreement, Belizean cable companies can now expand their catalog offer and provide authorized access to HBO, A&E, Lifetime, The History [...]
Millicom announced that it has completed the acquisition of Telefónica Nicaragua mobile operations, the first of the three subsidiaries of the Spanish company that it bought last February together with the Panamanian and Costa Rican ones. The transaction was valued at USD 437 million With the acquisition, Tigo is adding about 4 million customers to [...]
The OTT Crunchyroll, the biggest anime market referent with more than one million subscribers, published a 10 countries list that represented anime’s contents largest audience during the last days of March worldwide. Uruguay was the major anime consumer in Latin America, although the number of subscribers in each country was not posted. In Latin America, [...]
Telefónica agreed with Millicom to sell its subsidiaries in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. As reported by the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the operations amount is USD 1,650 million, of which USD 570,9 million correspond to Telefónica Costa Rica, USD 650,4 million to Telefónica Panamá, and USD 430 , 2 million to Telefónica Nicaragua. [...]
US Entertainment Studios plans to launch the OTT ‘The Weather Channel in Spanish’ in the first quarter 2020, with Spanish-speaking reporters who will forecast weather conditions in the US and other countries such as Puerto Rico, Mexico and others from Central America, according to what the company officially reported. OTT will use all The Weather [...]
Honduran analog blackout will take place next January 1st, 2020, as established by Telecommunications National Commision (Conatel), but Honduras has been working on it since October 2013, warning TV companies to begin TDT migration process. Currently, from the 431 Honduran broadcasters, 223 had made the migration, and the other 198 still have to complete it. [...]
America Movil announced that it has acquired 100% of Movistar Guatemala and has entered into an agreement to acquire 99.3% of Movistar El Salvador, including . The acquired companies provide mobile and fixed telecommunications, including voice, data and Pay TV, adding only 15,000 DTH subs both operators. Telefonica Guatemala’s acquisition has been completed, while the [...]