Gabriela Jimenez, Head of the Compañia Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (Cantv) announced that the company’s pay TV offer via DTH will operate again in Venezuela. The executive confirmed the information in the TV program ‘Cafe en la mañana’, broadcast on the Venezuelan FTA TV channel VTV (Venezolana de Television). The service, called ‘Cantv Satelital’, [...]
The Venezuelan Government has officially confirmed that the Venesat-1 satellite, on which the CANTV’s DTH operations were developed, will not provide telecommunications services anymore due to a failure. Made by the Chinese company Great Wall Industry Corp and launched in 2008 from the Asian country, Venesat 1 had a useful life of 15 years, with [...]
The Venezuelan Venesat 1 satellite (78.0 ° W), on which the CANTV DTH operated, stopped working on March 13th when, after making a series of abrupt movements, it kept out of orbit. Made by the Chinese company Great Wall Industry Corp and launched in 2008 from the Asian country, Venesat 1 had a useful life [...]
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, [...]