Brazilian company MovieTV has recently announced that it will start offering pay TV services for hotels in Brazil. According to the information reported on various specialized websites in the country, the company plans to implement an initial trial version at the Pousada Jardim da Mantiqueira (Monte Verde, Minas Gerais) and, in June, a second trial [...]
Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are known under the ‘Movistar’ brand, reported through an announcement to its clients that, as of the end of April, it will stop marketing its DTH offer in El Salvador, where it is called ‘Movistar TV’. ‘As you know, our pay TV service is delivered through a [...]
According to the last report published by the Uruguayan Communications Services Regulatory Unit (URSEC), the country ended 2019 with 677,290 pay TV subscribers, a 26,912 subscribers loss in relation to December 2018, which means a 3.8% less subscribers. At the same time, the country recorded 10,867 fewer clients compared to June 2019. The pay TV [...]
The Spanish satellite operator Hispasat announced it will launch the new Amazonas Nexus satellite at the end of 2022, which will replace and expand the capacities of the Amazonas 2 one, in orbit 61° West. The new satellite will have coverage over the whole American continent, the North Atlantic corridor (air and maritime traffic area) [...]
According to information from the satellite EDS website, the Globosat 4K programming package trial version is available on the StarOne D1 (84.0° W) satellite, in C band. As reported by EDS, the programming package includes premium pay TV networks, such as Telecine Premium HD; Telecine Action HD; Telecine Touch HD; Telecine Pipoca HD; and others. [...]
Brazilian TV watchers already have the possibility to receive several channels in the country through the new free Ku-band solution from SES on the SES-10 satellite, located at 67 degrees West. To make it possible for customers to have an easy access to the channels, broadcasters can send their content to the SES teleport, located [...]
AT&T, owner of DTH operator DirecTV, announced that is finished buying satellites. Instead, it will focus on growing its online video business. The announcement was made by John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, in a meeting with analysts. “We’ve launched our last satellite,” Donovan said. In turn, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that AT&T has [...]
Peruvian public channel Peru TV, part of the Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión, resign their contract with satellite Company Intelsat in order to bring quality and range over the Peruvian territory for their DTT channel, and also settle facing the launching of their international signal in high definition. Locally, Peru TV continues using Intelsat [...]
Ivan Zambrana, director of the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE in Spanish) said that the new Bolivian satellite will have a capacity 10 times bigger than the Túpac Katari satellite, since it will have more than 10,000 MHz of bandwidth, reported La Razón. Currently, the new satellite is in the process of being approved. “A project [...]