Cuba would reach 400 thousand terrestrial digital TV users during the first stage of partial transition, as announced by Yamile Hernández Fernández, vice president of the regional technology company Copextel. In addition, she explained that the digitization process is expected to happen between November 30 and December 15 of this year, from the province of [...]
The Cuban Government published last Tuesday, August 17th, in the Gaceta Oficial the ‘Decreto Ley 35’, which establishes a set of regulations for the telecommunications, information and communication technologies and the use of the radioelectric spectrum on the island. In the document, and for the first time, the bases for developing a pay TV offer [...]
As confirmed by Ana Julia Marine Lopez, Cuban Sub-Minister of Communications, days ago to the local newspaper Granma, the country’s Communications Ministry has put the analog blackout off for 2024. Regarding the reasons for the decision, the newspaper reports that, initially, the DTT migration process in Cuba was going to be implemented between 2013 and [...]
As reported on several specialized websites in Cuba, the country’s Communications Minister, Jose Luis Perdomo Dilella, informed that the distribution of STBs for digital TV will be strengthened in the country from the second quarter of the year, especially in those areas where it is expected a greater progress in the DTT migration process. Likewise, [...]
As part of a new measures package recently announced by the Cuban Government, the Cuban Economy and Planning Ministry launched this week the report ‘Cuba y su desafio economico y social’, which highlights a series of measures to be applied due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in several areas, including the telecommunications [...]
As recently reported by Cuban specialized websites, DTT reached 76.2% coverage on the island, according to Carlos Arencibia Garcia, Technical Director of the Cuban Radio Communication and Broadcasting Company (Radiocuba). In addition, 63 new DTT broadcasters were installed in the territory, as a result of a donation from China, to improve coverage. ‘Despite the conditions [...]
With a 70% of the population now accessing to digital TV and more than 2.2 million distributed STBs, Cuba is moving forward tro the analog blackout, which is prevented to be implemented in 2023 in the Caribbean country. ‘However, there are limitations on which we must work before facing the last digital TV deployment step, [...]
Netflix ended its one-month free offer for new subscribers in several Latin American, Caribbean and European countries Those affected by the measure are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, according to the official Netflix help page. The OTT did not make this modification in [...]