Tag Archives: Telecommunications

Osiptel enables to cancel telecommunications services gradually for non-payment in Peru

June 2, 2020
Total fixed wireline and wireless Internet subscribers Peru

With the aim of reducing the high delay levels in telecommunications services payments, the Peruvian Telecommunications Private Investment Supervisory Agency (Osiptel) enabled operating companies to start cancelling telecommunication services gradually for non-payment in the country from today on. According to what Osiptel has officially reported, the regulator informed that it has not cancelled telecommunications services [...]

Subtel notifies VTR for services interruptions in Santiago de Chile

Pay TV | | May 14, 2020

After last Friday, May 8th, an almost 10-hour failure  that affected landline, mobile internet and pay TV VTR customers was reported in comunes like Peñalolén, Lampa and Colina (Santiago de Chile), the Chilean Telecommunications Subsecretary decided to notify the company.  In the document, the regulator asked VTR for more information regarding the reasons why the [...]

Enacom to make licensing process for cooperatives faster

Pay TV | | February 5, 2020

Claudio Ambrosini, Head of the Argentina Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (Enacom), reported Nextv News that the process to deliver pay TV licenses for telecommunications cooperatives will be implemented faster. ‘Cooperatives are my priority’, emphasized the executive. Cooperatives have a special process involved to assign them pay TV licenses that, as reported by referents from the [...]

New Uruguay Government prepares changes in the telecommunications area

Telecom | | January 31, 2020

New Uruguay’s President, Luis Lacalle Pou, presented a new project to be applied from next March 1st, when starting his presidential term. Titled ‘Uruguay seguro, transparente y de oportunidades’, the initiative suggest to make changes in the current telecommunications legislation and other areas, and consists of 10 sections and more than 400 articles.  The initiative [...]

Brazil asks its population on how to continue taking measures against piracy

Telecom | | June 20, 2019

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 [...]

Tigo Une to expand to other 26 Colombian locations

Connected TV | | March 15, 2019

Mauricio Ramos, CEO of Millicom in Colombia -where the company operates under the Tigo brand-, gave details about the investment that the company is making in the country and explained that it has stopped being a regional operator to deploy a project at a national level, which is already present in more than 1 million [...]

Argentina launches National Plan of Telecommunications and Connectivity

Telecom | | October 11, 2018

The government of Argentina announced the National Telecommunications and Connectivity Plan, which seeks to promote the development of new fixed broadband networks and 4G technology. The announcements were made by President Mauricio Macri and Deputy Chief of Staff Andrés Ibarra. “Reducing poverty is the most important goal of our government, which is why it is [...]

Argentina opens debate on convergence

Pay TV | | September 27, 2018

During the opening ceremony of the 2018 Jornadas Internacionales conference, Andrés Ibarra, Argentina’s Secretary of Modernization, highlighted the actions that the government is carrying out in the telecommunications area. “Connectivity is the key to development and inclusion,” the official said. “We finished 30,000 km of illuminated fiber, which serves more than 500 localities through the [...]

Mexico reaches 22.6 million pay TV accesses

Pay TV | | July 19, 2018

The Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) presented the Q118 results of the telecommunications market. Pay TV recorded 22.6 million accesses, an increase of 1.5% when compared to the total figure reported by operators in the same period of the previous year. According to the data provided by the regulator, the service penetration maintains at 67% [...]

Argentine Senate gives preliminary approval to “short” telecommunications law

DTH | | July 6, 2018

The Argentine Senate gave preliminary approval to the bill for the Promotion of ICT Infrastructure and Competition, known as the “short law”, which allows telecommunications companies to provide DTH, among other points. The initiative now goes to the Chamber of Deputies. The project – sent to the Senate by the Executive Power – had begun [...]