Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has developed an anti-piracy operation in 11 states of the country on Tuesday, in order to seal and confiscate equipment not legally certified. The operation managed to seize more than 23 thousand telecommunications products without legal certification. ‘This operation is the result of a great effort that Anatel’s inspection team [...]
In its Q2 2019 results report, the Brazilian company Oi recorded 2.8 million homes passed with FTTH in 68 municipalities in Brazil. This way, coverage increased by 381% compared to Q2 2018. Oi’s strategic plan expects to reach 4.6 million homes passed by the end of 2019 and 16 million in 2021. Oi reported 291 [...]
Brazil recorded 16,709,668 households with access to pay TV in June. The already mentioned figure means a 1.23 million subscribers fall during last 12 month-period, according to what the country’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) officially informed. According to the entity, in June almost half of Brazilians households had access to pay TV through the Claro [...]
Abraão Balbino e Silva, Competition Superintendent at the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), said that pay TV in that country ‘is sentenced to death’. The executive expressed that subscribers are choosing for more direct models to acquire content, which are not covered by the laws that regulate the sector in the country. Balbino’s opinion came [...]
Judge Flávia de Macedo Nolasco granted a judicial appeal in favour of Fox, against the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to cancel the offer of Fox+, the OTT that offer Fox linear channels in the direct to consumer model. According to Nolsaco’s judicial appeal, ‘there are extreme doubts in the area and a deeper analysis [...]
As reported by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Brazil recorded 16.82 million households with access to pay TV in May, which represents a 1.4 million subscribers decrease (-6.7%) in the last 12 months. The entity also reported that Claro granted pay TV service to 8.29 million customers, and concentrated 49.26% of the market, followed by [...]
Since last week, Globoplay -the Brazilian’s Globo Group OTT- is offering to selected clients access to 19 channels from the pay TV operator Globosat, also belonging to the previous mentioned group. Through an email, Globoplay subscribers who are elected are notified, that the initiative is part of a test, valid until July 10th. ‘We invite [...]
Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) made a public consultation to its citizens, in order to obtain suggestions on how to combat piracy in the country’s telecommunications area. The entity also spread a report that gave several details on these topic and how it is affecting telecommunications industry at a national level. ‘We must help the [...]
Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) issued a precautionary measure in which it request Fox to restrict Fox+, its direct to final consumer OTT. The Brazilian regulator gave Foz a 30-day period to obey the measure and, in case of not responding to it, the channel will be forced to pay a daily USD 25,800 fine, [...]
Last April 22nd, Brazilians National Film Agency (Ancine), National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) together with the Federal Police met with Carrefour supermarket network’s authorities to request that the company remove Android TV Box Tx2 STBs, which were offered through Carrefour’s loudspeakers in a store located in San Pablo, highlighting that the device makes it possible to [...]