Tag Archives: Osiptel

Telefonica Peru requests Osiptel to reconsider its resolution and reports that the regulator distorts competition in the country’s pay TV market

Telecommunications company Telefonica Peru, where, as in the rest of the Latin American countries where it operates, it does so under the ‘Movistar‘ brand, has officially announced this last Monday, July 12th, that it has requested the Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversion Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), entity in charge of regulating the public telecommunications services [...]

Telefonica Peru is identified as a dominant pay TV player and must share its network with other operators

Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversion Privada de Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), in charge of regulating the countrys telecommunications market, has officially announced this last Thursday, June 18th, that Telefonica del Peru has a dominant position in the pay TV market, specifically in the cable TV offer.  The announcement took place after the entity made a market analysis, [...]

Telecommunications companies in Peru must launch digital channels for users to self-manage their plans

Peruvian Organismo de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), telecommunications regulator in the country, has officially reported on February 12th that it is requiring operators in the country to implement a web and mobile application to provide personalized information and make digital procedures easier both for fixed and mobile telephony customers, as well as internet and [...]

Peruvian pay TV continues losing subscribers at the end of Q2 2020

According to the latest figures reported days ago by the Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), the country’s pay TV market continues losing subscribers, and ended the second quarter of the year with 1,956 million customers, and a household penetration by 21.3%. The maximum number of pay TV subscribers that the Peruvian [...]

Osiptel enables to cancel telecommunications services gradually for non-payment in Peru

With the aim of reducing the high delay levels in telecommunications services payments, the Peruvian Telecommunications Private Investment Supervisory Agency (Osiptel) enabled operating companies to start cancelling telecommunication services gradually for non-payment in the country from today on. According to what Osiptel has officially reported, the regulator informed that it has not cancelled telecommunications services [...]

DirecTV to appeal Osiptel’s verdict for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup broadcast

DirecTV officially expressed itself after the charges applied to it by the Peruvian Telecommunications Private Investment Supervisory Agency (Osiptel), which reported anti-competitive behaviours during the last Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup broadcast.  Through an official statement, DirecTV Peru SRL argued that the verdict lacks evidence to support this alleged violation, and said it was not [...]

Latina Television and DirecTV are fined in Peru for anticompetitive behaviours

The Peruvian Telecommunications Private Investment Supervisory Agency (Osiptel) ordered the Compañía Latinoamericana de Radiodifusión S.A. (Latina Televisión) and DirecTV Peru S.R.L. (DirecTV) to pay a  S 6,892,200 (USD 2.03 million) fine, for applying a strategy to exclude other pay TV operators (only DirecTV competitors), benefiting themselves from having the 2018 World Cup Russia broadcast. Both [...]