The Uruguayan operators lost more than 7,000 subscribers to its pay TV services at the end of the first half of the year, according to a report by the country’s Communication Services Regulatory Unit (URSEC). Meanwhile, when it comes to mobile phone and internet services, the customer bases increased, with a marked leadership of the [...]
The Uruguayan operators lost more than 7,000 subscribers to its pay TV services at the end of the first half of the year, according to a report by the country’s Communication Services Regulatory Unit (URSEC). Meanwhile, when it comes to mobile phone and internet services, the customer bases increased, with a marked leadership of the [...]
The National Institute of Uruguayan Cinema and Audiovisual (INCAU) and the Association of Producers and Filmmakers of Uruguay (Asoprod) launched CineUy, a streaming platform that offers a wide VoD catalogue of national films and series for local audiences, developed on Vera TV, the OTT of the operator Antel. To access the app, users must have [...]
Daniel Larrosa, director of the Uruguayan state telecommunications company Antel, on behalf of the Frente Amplio political party, warned in a report that due to the loss of mobile service customers against competition and the possible elimination of Vera TV, Antel’s streaming platform, the company could lose more than USD 900 million over the next [...]
Antel, the Uruguayan state telecommunications company, obtained an income of USD 19 million with Vera TV, their own streaming service. Said revenue started in the year 2013, and it continued till last year’s report, as it was revealed to El Observador. From that number, it was detailed that USD 250 million came from publicity, USD [...]
Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, held a meeting last week with Gabriel Gurmendez, CEO at the country’s telco Antel. According to information reported on several local websites, including ‘La Diaria’, the executive reported that an agreement was reached, which allows to ‘accelerate’ some investments related to fiber optic coverage in the country. According to Gurmendez, [...]
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 [...]
As reported by the Uruguayan website ‘Busqueda’ last week, the telecommunications company Telecom Argentina expressed its intentions to ‘considerably increase its investments in Uruguay’, and reported that one of its purposes is to acquire the local subsidiary of Movistar (Telefonica) in the country. In Uruguay, Telecom provides pay TV services through the Cablevision brand; while [...]
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 [...]
At the beginning of October, and due to the Uruguayan National Team’s debut in the current Qualifiers (which took place that same day against the Chilean National Team), different specialized websites in the country reported that the only way to watch the football match was through a pay TV operator, unlike in happened in previous [...]