Washington Melo, President at the Camara Uruguaya de Television para Abonados (CUTA), demands the country’s Government to move forward on the implementation of a new legal framework, in order to boost the sector. The entity he presides gathers 83 pay TV operators in Uruguay. ‘Cable TV company’s viability is seriously threatened because everything is geared [...]
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, [...]
Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, has announced this week the increase to USD 12 million in incentives to support the country’s audiovisual industry, through the Programa Uruguay Audiovisual (PUA). The announcement was made during a visit by the executive to the ‘Reducto’ audiovisual center, located in Montevideo. The PUA program was created in Uruguay in [...]
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 [...]
Canal U, Eutopia TV and TV Libre, the three channels that won the tender made by the Uruguayan Government to join the pay TV operators programming grids in the country, were notified that their concession is in danger, because the FTA TV channels 4, 10 and 12 and its cable TV branches in the country [...]
New Uruguay’s President, Luis Lacalle Pou, presented a new project to be applied from next March 1st, when starting his presidential term. Titled ‘Uruguay seguro, transparente y de oportunidades’, the initiative suggest to make changes in the current telecommunications legislation and other areas, and consists of 10 sections and more than 400 articles. The initiative [...]