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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Reinventing the box’, event in which Uruguayan cable TV operators Montecable, Nuevo Siglo and TCC met Uruguayan and regional TV industry leaders to present, debate and propose ideas based on the new realities of consumer spending. entertainment and the different regulatory contexts, has been developed on Wednesday, March 13th at the Sofitel Hotel in Montevideo, [...]