According to the information reported by several specialized websites in Brazil, the US company Lionsgate, owner of the SVOD OTT Starzplay, available in several Latin American markets, and the premium TV network Starz, got a new favorable verdict by the Brazilian Justice , which prevents Disney from using the ‘Star’ and ‘Star+’ brands in the [...]
Brazilian Justice has officially announced this last Thursday, June 24th that it has finally allowed The Walt Disney Company to use the ‘Star’ brand to launch its new SVOD OTT in the country after, days ago, the Lionsgate company, focused on distributing film and TV content, and owner of the US premium channels network Starz [...]
Spanish economic newspaper ‘Cinco Dias’ reported this last Monday, March 1st, on its official web version that Telefonica made changes on the lawsuit it has filed against Millicom (Tigo) for the acquisition of Movistar’s operations in Costa Rica. According to the information reported by ‘Cinco Dias’, the Spanish company reported as part of its its [...]
Millicom officially reported last May 2nd its decision to cancel Telefonica’s operations acquisition agreement in Costa Rica, valued at USD 570 million and reached on February 20th, 2019. The company justified its determination supporting that, according to the agreement ran with Telefonica, in case of finding pending issues on the required regulatory conditions, as of [...]
Telefonica announced that it will file a lawsuit against Millicom International Cellular (which operates in Latin America under the ‘Tigo’ brand). According to the Spanish company, the decision is due to the fact that Tigo left the agreement to acquire its share capital in Costa Rica unfinished. This was confirmed in Madrid, in a document [...]
Uruguayan Justice rejected this Wednesday, October 30th the lawsuit presented by that country’s pay TV operator Riselco (Nuevo Siglo), valued at USD 85 million. The company claimed for the omission made by the Uruguayan Communication Regulatory Unit (URSEC) in the granting of data transmission and internet access licensed requested in 2008, arguing that it would [...]
After the request made by Chilean Supreme Court of Justice, which forced pay TV operator VTR to bring TVI / Filmocentro’s channels back to its programming grid, the operator was now sued by AMC Networks Latin America LLC at the Chilean Free Competition Defense Court (TDLC) for removing the Film&Arts, AMC, El Gourmet, Europa Europa, [...]
In response to the lawsuit made by Claro Brazil in Anatel, where it expressed that Fox + – under the name ‘Interactive Sport Plus’ violates the Conditional Access Law (Seac), Fox sent a document in defense of its OTT platform to the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel). Document presented by the programmer states that the internet [...]
Televisa Group presented a lawsuit against Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) in November 2018, to take part in Disney-Fox authorization process merger in Mexico as an interested party. On September 26th, the company denied Mexican group to participate in merger process. ‘Televisa expresses its proposal to become an interested party within file UCE/CNC-001-2018, citing a number [...]
Satellite operator filed a federal lawsuit against Univision. Dish states that Hispanic network OTTs , including Univision Now, the Univisión application, and Univisión Deportes, violate four of their patents that cover streaming with adaptive transfer speed. From Univision, company representatives expressed that there is no type of patent infringement: ‘As we previously informed Dish, we [...]