Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has officially established that linear TV channels offered via streaming is not considered a pay TV offer, but rather a value-added service. For this reason, they should be excluded from the rules established by the SeAC Law (N°. 12,485; 2011), which regulates Pay TV offers in Brazil. ‘Linearity in content [...]
Claro Brazil requested to make regulatory changes on the Conditional Access Service Law (SeAC Law), available in the country since 2011, in order to correct regulatory asymmetries between pay TV and OTTs. Fábio Andrade, Institutional Affairs VP at Claro Brazil, has recently took part of ‘The future of pay TV regulation’, conference developed by Brazilian [...]
Guigo TV and Turner ran an agreement by which, from this month, Turner’s digital products contents will be part of Guigo TV packages available for its subscribers, who will have Esporte Interativo Plus (EI Plus) contents available on the OTT platform. Some of them will be the Champions League, eight clubs from the Serie A [...]
Telefónica -which operates in Brazil under the Vivo brand-, officially announced that, from now on, customers from that country using the company’s cell phones will be able to access the UEFA Champions League and Brasileirao matches (name for the Brazilian football professional league) live on Esporte Interativo Plus, and enjoy Cartoon Network contents on CN [...]
Tim Brazil announced an agreement with Netflix, in which it will allow to pay the OTT account in the operator’s monthly invoice. The possibility is available to subscribers of the Tim Black postpaid plan -with the exception of the Express modality-. Tim is the first cell phone operator to include this offer. Net includes that [...]