Tag Archives: IPTV

IPTV represents 51.3% of Movistar’s total TV accesses in Chile at the end of Q2 2021

As part of its Q2 2021 financial results report presentation, the telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Chile and the rest of Latin America, except for Brazil, are branded as Movistar, reported that fiber accesses (FTTH) in Chile grew 62.7% year-on-year. According to the information reported, the company ended June with 974 thousand FTTH accesses. [...]

Entel launches new pay TV offer via streaming for mobile customers in Bolivia

Telecommunications company Entel Bolivia has officially announced on August 16th the launch of Entel TV Smart, its new pay TV offering via streaming, available to the company’s mobile customers, both prepaid and postpaid, although, as reported, it will soon be available to clients of other operators in the country. The app is available for download [...]

Movistar features almost 250 thousand IPTV clients and strengthens FTTH deployment in Colombia

As part of its Q2 2021 results report presentation, the telecommunications company Movistar Colombia (Telefonica) reported that its IPTV offer ended the period with 247 thousand subscribers (a figure that means a 79.6% year-on-year growth). Likewise, Movistar TVs clients  totaled 527 thousand at the end of the period. In relation to the company’s fixed business, [...]

Pay TV reports more than 700 thousand subscribers and reaches its highest base in Bolivia

According to the latest report made by Bolivian Autoridad de Regulacion y Fiscalizacion de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes (ATT), the entity in charge of regulating and supervising telecommunications activities in the country, the pay TV market continues to rise and ended Q1 2021 with a total of 702,275 subscribers. This is the highest figure reported in [...]

Costa Rica loses cable and DTH subscribers and strengthens its IPTV base in 2020

As reported by the Costa Rican Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel), entity in charge of regulating the telecommunications market in the country, on its latest report, the pay TV market suffered a retraction in 2020, and ended the year with a total of 877 thousand subscribers. In addition, although coaxial cable is still the leading technology [...]

Cotas starts making trials for its new IPTV offer and plans to launch it in September

Bolivian Cooperativa de Telecomunicaciones Santa Cruz (Cotas) has announced the launch of its new pay TV offer via IPTV. According to information reported on the website of the Bolivian newspaper El Deber and others, the company expects to launch its new offering in September. This way, Cotas will gradually migrate its TV offer to the [...]

Globo would have inscribed a STB at Anatel and may launch new streaming box

According to the information reported on the specialized website Minha Operadora and others, the Brazilian group Grupo Globo would be planning to launch a new streaming box, which it would have inscribed at Anatel, the entity that regulates the telecommunications market in Brazil. Minha Operadora reports that the device would be called Globo.com, although, in [...]

Telefonica to provide its DTH offer in Brazil to its current clients until 2022

The telecommunications company Vivo -name under which Telefonica’s operations in Brazil are known- announced its decision to renew its partnership agreement with Media Networks Latin America (Telefonica) so that the company is responsible for supporting Vivos DTH operations until the end of next year. Although Media Networks belongs to Telefonica, last April, Hispasat (Grupo Red [...]

Movistar grows in FTTH and IPTV during the first three months of 2021 in Colombia

As part of its Q1 2021 financial results report presentation, Movistar Colombia (Telefonica) reported a year-on-year growth of 51.6% on its FTTH customer base, which already features more than 366 thousand subscribers. Movistar also reported that its FTTH offering is already available in 43 Colombian cities. This increase in the number of FTTH accesses shows [...]

VTR extends its FTTH network in Chile and plans to launch HubTV soon

Chilean telecommunications company VTR (Liberty Latin America) plans to launch HubTV, a new IPTV product, which works on the FTTH network that the company is deploying in the country. It is a STB called D-Box Smart, developed by TiVo. From Liberty they report that the new offer will be launched soon in Chile, although they [...]