Tag Archives: Telecommunications

Claro to invest almost USD 182 million to expand FTTH distribution in Puerto Rico before the end of the year

June 23, 2021
Claro Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) FTTx subscribers

According to the information reported on specialized websites, the telecommunications company Claro Puerto Rico (America Movil) announced a USD 182 million investment for this year, with the aim of doubling its mobile network’s capacity, extending its 5G coverage, expanding fiber optic distribution, and other initiatives. Enrique Ortiz de Montellano, President & CEO at Claro Puerto [...]

Telecom Argentina expects to expand its business to Uruguay according to changes in the country’s telecommunications regulations

March 12, 2021
Telecom Argentina Total direct pay TV revenues

Telecommunications company Telecom Argentina aims to expand its business in Uruguay, although it expects to do so if changes are implemented in the country’s  telecommunications regulations. The information, as reported in several specialized websites, was reported by Telecom’s CEO, Roberto Nobile, during the last conference on the company’s Q4 2020 results. ‘The idea of ​​expanding [...]

Movistar and Claro confirm they will return their clients the extra value invoiced in January in Argentina

February 23, 2021
Total direct pay TV subscribers Argentina

According to the information reported on several specialized websites in Argentina, telecommunications companies Movistar Argentina (Telefonica) and Claro Argentina (America Movil) confirmed that they will return their clients the extra value invoiced in January. The measure takes place after, at the end of that month, the National Telecommunications Entity (Enacom) requested that those country’s telecommunications [...]

Telecommunications companies in Peru must launch digital channels for users to self-manage their plans

February 23, 2021
Share of pay TV subscribers receiving 4K Peru

Peruvian Organismo de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), telecommunications regulator in the country, has officially reported on February 12th that it is requiring operators in the country to implement a web and mobile application to provide personalized information and make digital procedures easier both for fixed and mobile telephony customers, as well as internet and [...]

Argentine Government to fine telecommunications companies who have made higher increases that those established for January

January 31, 2021
Total direct pay TV subscribers Argentina

According to what has been recently reported by several specialized websites in Argentina, the National Telecommunications Entity (Enacom) requested the country’s telecommunications companies that have made higher increases in their offer’s value than those that had been established by the Government, to give the value of the increase back to users. In dialogue with the [...]

Uruguayan pay TV operators to be able to offer broadband using private networks

November 26, 2020
Antel (Uruguay) Total fixed wireline Internet subscribers

The Uruguayan Government has recently announced that changes in the Media Law available in the country (Law N° 19,307; 2014) will be implemented. The most relevant ones are focused on the possibility that pay TV operators can offer services using private networks, and not only those provided by the Uruguayan telco Antel, as currently established [...]

TV Peru to provide broadcasting services via satellite to reach areas without telecommunications offers

October 1, 2020
Total TV network revenues Peru

As reported by several specialized websites in Peru this last Wednesday, the country’s Transport and Communications Ministry (MTC) led the Peruvian Radio and Television National Institute (IRTP), the entity in charge of the TV channel ‘TV Peru’, to provide the satellite broadcasting service, for educational purposes. The MTC explained that the service will allow several [...]

Cuban Government submits pay TV offer as a measure to alleviate economic crisis due to the pandemic period

September 10, 2020
TV sets installed base Cuba

As part of a new measures package recently announced by the Cuban Government, the Cuban Economy and Planning Ministry launched this week the report ‘Cuba y su desafio economico y social’, which highlights a series of measures to be applied due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in several areas, including the telecommunications [...]

Chile launches new platform to cancel telecommunications offers

June 14, 2020
Total direct pay TV subscribers Chile

Chilean National Consumer Service (SERNAC) announced on June 11th the launch of the ‘Me Quiero Salir’ platform, which it defined as ‘a tool available to consumers so that they can expressly and clearly request the term of one or more subscriptions for the telecommunications services provision  that have been ran with a company’. According to [...]

Chile extends term of new plan to provide mobile phone, internet and pay TV services to those most affected by the Coronavirus

June 3, 2020
Wom Chile Total fixed wireline and wireless Internet subscribers

Chilean Transport and Telecommunications Ministry (MTT) and telecommunications regulator Subtel announced an agreement with operators in the country, such as Movistar, Entel, Claro, VTR and Grupo GTD, together with Wom, Mundo Pacifico and CMET, to extend the Solidarity Connectivity Plan launched in April for 30 days. The initiative aims to provide benefits for Chilean citizens, [...]