Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, held a meeting last week with Gabriel Gurmendez, CEO at the country’s telco Antel. According to information reported on several local websites, including ‘La Diaria’, the executive reported that an agreement was reached, which allows to ‘accelerate’ some investments related to fiber optic coverage in the country. According to Gurmendez, [...]
Telecommunications company Telecom Argentina aims to expand its business in Uruguay, although it expects to do so if changes are implemented in the country’s telecommunications regulations. The information, as reported in several specialized websites, was reported by Telecom’s CEO, Roberto Nobile, during the last conference on the company’s Q4 2020 results. ‘The idea of expanding [...]
As reported by the Uruguayan website ‘Busqueda’ last week, the telecommunications company Telecom Argentina expressed its intentions to ‘considerably increase its investments in Uruguay’, and reported that one of its purposes is to acquire the local subsidiary of Movistar (Telefonica) in the country. In Uruguay, Telecom provides pay TV services through the Cablevision brand; while [...]
The Uruguayan Government has recently announced that changes in the Media Law available in the country (Law N° 19,307; 2014) will be implemented. The most relevant ones are focused on the possibility that pay TV operators can offer services using private networks, and not only those provided by the Uruguayan telco Antel, as currently established [...]
At the beginning of October, and due to the Uruguayan National Team’s debut in the current Qualifiers (which took place that same day against the Chilean National Team), different specialized websites in the country reported that the only way to watch the football match was through a pay TV operator, unlike in happened in previous [...]
According to specialized websites in Uruguay, Gabriel Gurmendez, President at the Uruguayan telco Antel, reported that the company will not venture into producing its own content for the Vera+ platform and the Vera TV channel. The executive’s statements, as reported by Uruguayan websites, were made in the ‘Primera Mañana’ radio program, broadcast by Radio ‘El [...]