Claro announced that from now on its clients in Brazil can access up to five free months of Discovery +, the Network’s OTT that was launched in the region on November 9. According to the operator, users will be able to subscribe to the free trial of the service until January 31, 2022, while its [...]
The CEO of Claro Dominican Republic, Rogelio Viesca, and the vice president of the company, Carlos Cueto, announced that the company will launch its own 5G mobile network in the country, during a meeting with the Dominican president Luis Abinader. In addition, they detailed that the plans and equipment necessary to develop the service are [...]
Claro Brasil, the largest pay TV operator in the region, criticized The Walt Disney Company’s decision to have removed content from its linear channels to strengthen the exclusivity of the offer of its Disney + and Star + OTTs. “This measure makes the service more expensive for the subscriber and makes everything more expensive“, the [...]
While the wait continues for the ruling of the Brazilian court regarding the purchase of mobile assets of Oi by Claro, Telefónica and TIM, valued at USD 2.9 billion; the Superintendency of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense of Brazil announced that it recommends approving the operation with conditions. In December 2020, the association made [...]
Discovery finally confirmed the launch of its OTT Discovery + in Brazil for November 9th, after having postponed the premiere that was originally scheduled for September. To the agreement that had already been announced with Globoplay, a contract with Claro was now incorporated to include the platform in its Claro box tv service, in addition [...]
Claro integrated the exclusive edition for cell phones of the Amazon Prime Video platform into its mobile phone service in Argentina. In this way, subscribers of the prepaid plan will be able to access a specific version of the OTT, in standard quality and without the possibility of multiscreen. Last year, the operator Tigo (Milicom) [...]
Claro launched its new television service in Puerto Rico that aims to unify the experience of live programming with online streaming services. From now on, customers in the region will be able to purchase the Claro v + platform, which will be available both from a mobile app and for televisions through their own STB. [...]
América Móvil presented the results of its subsidiaries for Q3 2021 and revealed that the Claro Box TV service in Brazil reached 190 thousand subscribers. The figure represents a notable increase of 55.7% over the previous period. Although pay TV had a significant growth in recent months, in the rest of the revenues Claro Brasil [...]
The Brazilian radio station Jovem Pan will launch its own pay TV channel and has already confirmed its presence in two operators. In addition to appearing on Claro‘s grid, as it was previously announced, it has now reached an agreement with Sky Brasil to join its offer. In this way, TV Jovem Pan will be [...]
Paulo Cesar Texeira, Claro’s CEO, denounced a fast increasing spread of piracy of its STBs and demanded the Brazilian Association of Subscription Television (ABTA) to be more rigorous in its work to stop these types of crimes. “We expect the market to move towards a usage correction, so there is no harmful interference from pirated [...]