AT&T began to roll out its 5G network in Mexico and inaugurated it after having connected 50 mobile devices to it on December 8. According to local press, so far the network has covered Mexico City and the districts of Cuauhtémoc and Nápoles, where it works on the 2.5 GHz band spectrum. On the other [...]
Xandr, AT & T’s advanced advertising company, introduced a new feature to its platform, which enables improved monetization of video content through metadata standardization. During the announcement, the company explained that the tool will take the unique gender values, simplify them and divide them into standardized categories, also specifying the duration, format, genre, rating, channel [...]
AT&T announced the completion of the sale process of Vrio Corp, the mother company of DIRECTV Latin America, to the Werthein Group, an operation that had been announced on July 22. As of now, the Group fully owns DIRECTV operations in 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a base of more than [...]
The telecommunications company AT&T Latin America announced that the sale of its Vrio operations, which include the DirecTV brand, has already been agreed with the Werthein Group and that both parties expect the transaction to be completed during Q4 2021. The news was released through a report with the results of Q3 2021. In the [...]
Japanese company Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and AT&T has officially announced this last Monday, August 9th that SPE has completed its acquisition of AT&T’s Crunchyroll anime business. The agreement was first announced in December 2020. The purchase price for the transaction was USD 1,175 billion. In addition, Tony Vinciquerra, CEO at SPE, reported that the [...]
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 [...]
As part of its Q2 2021 results report presentation, AT&T reported a total of 10.3 million subscribers to Vrio, unit that controls DirecTV Latin America, Sky Brazil and DirecTV GO’s operations, sold to the Argentine holding Grupo Werthein, according to the information that was officially announced this week. The reported figure shows a 239 thousand [...]
AT&T and the Argentine holding company Grupo Werthein have officially announced this last Wednesday, July 21st that the Argentine company has run an agreement to acquire AT&T’s Vrio Corp’s business unit. Both companies expect the transaction to close in early 2022. The announcement came after AT&T sold a part of DirecTV’s operations in the US [...]
US company CNN (WarnerMedia, AT&T) has officially announced this last Monday, July 19th the launch of its new SVOD OTT, which will be called ‘CNN +’ and will be launched in Q1 2022. Up to now, the company has not confirmed the arrival date of the platform to Latin America, but it did report that [...]
HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s (ATT) new SVOD OTT, is being officially launched today in Latin America, and, this way, it begins its international expansion process, after its launch in the US, at the end of May 2020. At the end of May, WarnerMedia Latin America confirmed that access to HBO Max can be done from smartphones, [...]