As recently reported by several specialized websites in Chile, Chilean triple play operator Mundo Pacifico -recently rebranded as ‘Mundo’-, plans to be the second company with the largest FTTH deployment in the country by next year. To achieve this goal, the company will use a new technology in FTTH. ‘With this technology, we hope to [...]
After the Anime FLV streaming platform announced that it will start to develop a business model in support of legal anime, several media specialized in anime reported a possible alliance between AnimeFLV and AnimeYT to launch a new legal anime platform in Latin America, which would be called ‘Anime Onegai’. The release date has not [...]
The Spanish company Mediapro announced it came to terms with YouTube to broadcast the Lima 2019 Pan American Games live and for the first time on the video platform, not including Turkey and the American continent. The companies did not give details on the agreement’s economic terms, which was possible thanks to the Peruvian Olympic [...]
Edgar Welker, former President of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) bought last December 2018 the rights to broadcast several football competitions for Uruguay on cable TV, FTA, radio and streaming, such as the South American Sub 17 and Sub 20 tournaments (both competitions already disputed) and the Copa America, through the company Dexary. Welker sold [...]
Sports OTT DAZN, soon to be launched in Brazil, could be one of the possible candidates to buy Fox Sports in the country, according to Brazilian journalists Eduardo Ohata (Yahoo) and Mauricio Lima (Veja magazine). Fox Sports sale was an Economic Defense Administrative Council’s (CADE) decision, which approved the merger between Fox and Disney but [...]
DAZN Group announced significant changes in its structure. In the Latin American Spanish market, where DAZN was not launched as an OTT yet, it created ‘an innovative off-the-shelf network’ called DAZN +. In addition, the sports platform VOD ePlayer was renamed, and its new denomination is DAZN Player. ‘This is a decisive moment for DAZN, [...]
Rwanda will soon launch its first telecommunications satellite which will be propelled into orbit from the international space station. The operation is in line with the agreement signed last year between the Rwandan and the Japanese government on Space Inclusion in Africa. Before the launch, the Rwandan government has already sent six young Rwandans to [...]
A Japanese delegation will be deployed this week in Santiago de Chile to take part of the conference “Towards the Digital Terrestrial Television switched-on “, organized by the National Television Council (CNTV), the Japanese Embassy and the Chilean Communication Sub Secretary ( Subtel). Japanese delegation proposes to promote digital TV in that country, to carry [...]
The Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post (Telcor) will carry out on March 21 the first DTT trial in the country, in cooperation with the Government of Japan, said the vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo. The first digital TV signals will be delivered through channel 6, the executive explained, according to El Nuevo Diario. [...]