Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, announced a new FTTH plan to be implemented in the country’s municipalities, and aims that, by November this year, 80% of the country’s municipalities will be connected. It will be developed by Cantv and will be implemented in the Capital District and in Miranda and Zulia states at first, to later [...]
In its ‘Telecommunications Area Figures Report’ belonging to the fourth quarter 2018, Venezuelan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) recorded 4,623,817 pay TV subscribers in the country. The previous mentioned figure represents a 1.51% fall compared to last year’s same period, where there were 4,694,862 pay TV subscribers in Venezuela. From the total pay TV subscribers already [...]
From the Innovation and Technology Fair of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB), Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, created the country’s National Telecommunications Corporation through a decree, and announced that telecommunications companies like Cantv, Movilnet, Telecom, Venezuela’s Broadcasting Network, Gran Caribe Communications and Ipostel (postal area) will be unified. The new corporation will be in charge [...]
According to the figures telecommunications field report at the end of the second quarter 2018, presented by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), Venezuelan pay TV recorded 4,651,707 subscribers. These number means a 2.84% decrease in relation to the number of subscribers in the second quarter of 2017, which amounted to 4,787,451. The report mentions that, [...]
La Tele Tuya (TLT) has become the first channel in HD quality to launch on CNTV’s DTH service in Venezuela. It is available on channel 602 of the operator’s lineup. “Today we take a new step by becoming the first Venezuelan channel to broadcast in HD, 24/7 through CANTV Satelital” the company said through a [...]
Disney has withdrawn the sports channels ESPN and ESPN2, as well as the channel for kids Disney Channel, from the line-up of the DTH state-owned operator Cantv, as explained by the Venezuelan company in a press release. Disney didn’t have any channel in the line-up of IPTV. “Cantv apologizes with the users of the DTH [...]
The National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) of Venezuela is holding meetings with pay TV companies to monitor and evaluate the service they provide at the national level. The regulator said on its website that CANTV has already attended its meeting, as well as executives of SuperCable, while Intercable was called for next week. In the case [...]
The state-owned telecommunications company Cantv from Venezuela has completed the construction of 5,700 Km of fiber-optic network, of which 4,700 Km are already lit with 176 nodes serving 15,000 subscribers. This initiative is part of Eighth Project of Universal Telecommunications Service (Opsut in Spanish), promoted by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel). In the second [...]
The National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) of Venezuela presented a report for the fourth quarter of 2015 in which it registered that the Pay-TV market in that country grew relatively by 10.54% annually (in local currency), with an increase in operating income of 14.4%. The set of subscription TV operators totaled 5,019,597 subscribers, 478,768 [...]
Compania Anonima Nacional de Telefonos de Venezuela (Cantv) removed without a previous announcement up to 13 sports and entertainment international channels from the grid of its Satellite TV service, informed local newspaper El Nacional. According to user complaints made via social network Twitter, it was unveiled that the company had replaced a fraction [...]
