As reported on the specialized website CNBC, AT&T is about to run an agreement to sell a stake in DirecTV (DTH), U-Verse (IPTV) and AT&T TV Now (pay TV OTT) to the US investment fund TPG Capital, with whom it had already been holding talks to acquire a stake in the DTH. However, as confirmed [...]
Chilean mobile operator Wom has officially announced through its official website the launch of a new internet plan via FTTH with up to 100 mbps with symmetric speed -that is, it supports the same upload and download speed-, for CH $ 9,990 (USD 14) per month. The new plan is added to two others previously [...]
Televisa has announced this Tuesday, February 24th, that its SVOD OTT blim tv is already part of the DirecTV GO (AT&T) catalog in Mexico. The initiative, which has been available since February 18th, allows DirecTV GO subscribers to access 35 live TV channels and more than 32 thousand hours of on-demand content, including all Televisa [...]
Argentine Club Atletico Boca Juniors has officially launched its new TV channel, available on the club’s official YouTube account. It is a new way of accessing Boca’s content for its fans, available from this last Monday, February 22nd. ‘We want to reach the fans and for the news to be announced in a serious way. [...]
Brazilian pay TV operator Claro (America Movil) has announced this week that it has added the SVOD OTT Box Brazil Play, a marketplace aimed at showcasing Brazilian audiovisual content, officially launched on January 4th by the Box Brazil programmer (Grupo Box Brazil), as part of its OTT, Now. To access its catalog, Claro’s platform subscribers [...]
Mexican holding company Megacable has officially announced this Tuesday, February 23rd, the launch of Xview+, its new interactive video platform based on Android TV, whose interface allows its subscribers to access Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO GO and YouTube, as well as linear pay TV channels. Together with the Xview+ STBs, the company launched new [...]
As reported on Friday, February 19th on the specialized website ‘El CEO’, the Mexican holding company Megacable has decided not to produce original content. In August 2019, the company announced the launch of its first original series, but plans in this area are not set to continue. ‘We are not going to create our own [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of its Q4 2020 financial results presentation, Discovery reported that Discovery+, its new OTT, recently launched in the US and Europe, already features more than 11 million subscribers. The platform was officially launched on January 4th, and it plans to start its global expansion throughout this year, which will include Latin American countries. [...]