The Bolivian state operator, Entel, announced that its pay TV service, which since its launch in mid-2021 was only enabled for mobile plan subscribers, is now available to the public through the Entel TV Smart app, even for those who are not clients of the company. Meanwhile, for those who are subscribers, it will continue [...]
The Uruguayan operators lost more than 7,000 subscribers to its pay TV services at the end of the first half of the year, according to a report by the country’s Communication Services Regulatory Unit (URSEC). Meanwhile, when it comes to mobile phone and internet services, the customer bases increased, with a marked leadership of the [...]
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) of Brazil extended the terms of validity of the old concessions of the Pay TV “Special Service”, founded in 1989 by the government at that time to negotiate with media groups. After the decision, which goes against the provisions of the SeAC Law (12485/2011), which provided for audiovisual communication with [...]
The number of pay TV accesses in Mexico grew 1% for June 2021, compared to the results obtained during the same month of the previous year, as announced by the Federal Telecommunications Institute in a press release. In total, 20.5 million users were registered, 196 thousand more than in 2020, and it was estimated that [...]
Zapping, Chile’s streaming Pay TV service, integrated the access to the HBO Max platform to its offer, in addition to having incorporated the premium package with all HBO channels and the Cinemax signal. The cost of the combo will have an additional value of USD 9.5 per month and will have a special bonus during [...]
Conexis, the group that represents the main telecommunications operators in Brazil, applied to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to join an action against the increase in the mandatory loading of channels for pay TV companies. The regulation to which it opposes requires content from local stations to be included in service packages, free of charge. [...]
By 2020, 52% of households in Colombia had pay TV service, as revealed by the Survey of Information and Communication Technologies in Households (ENTIC Hogares) of the Dane (National Administrative Department of Statistics). This number also includes informal access to the service. Meanwhile, the open TV signal was the one with the highest penetration in [...]