Tag Archives: Q2 2020

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 [...]

Telecom Argentina increases Flow Boxes distribution and strengthens Flow’s catalog during Q2 2020

In its Q2 2020 quarterly results report presentation, Argentine pay TV operator Cablevision (Telecom) reported that it ended June with a total of 1,078 million Flow STBs (which the company calls ‘Flow Boxes’), distributed to its clients. The figure shows 61 thousand Flow Boxes more than the 1,017 distributed at the end of Q1 2020, [...]

Telefonica increases IPTV accesses despite losing pay TV subscribers in Latin America

As reported by Telefonica on its January-June 2020 balance sheet, officially published at the end of July, the Spanish company ended the first half of the year with increases in its IPTV client base in Latin America, including Brazil, despite the fall in pay TV subscribers it experienced in the region. In Latin America, including [...]

Disney+ to be launched in November in Latin America

During its Q2 2020 financial results presentation, The Walt Disney Company announced that its new SVOD OTT Disney+, officially launched in the US last year, will arrive at Latin America in November this year. The news was confirmed by Bob Chapek, the company’s CEO, and strengthens Disneys forecasts that the platform would be available in [...]

Vivo records 13.1 million FTTH HPs and more than 800 thousand IPTV accesses

In its Q2 2020 results report presentation, Telefonica Brazil -where it operates under the Vivo brand, reported 805 thousand accesses to pay TV via IPTV and 13.1 million FTTH HPs in the period. The number of pay TV accesses via IPTV means a 63% of the company’s total TV client base. In addition, it means [...]

Vrio, AT&T unit that controls DirecTV operations in Latin America and Sky Brazil, loses almost 3 million subscribers in Q2

On its Q2 2020 results report presentation, AT&T reported 10.7 million subscribers to Vrio, unit that concentrates DirecTV’s operations in Latin America and Sky Brazil. The figure includes the companys DTH and DirecTV GO (OTT) customers. In addition, the company reported that, when canceling its operations in Venezuela, last May, DirecTV recorded 2.2 million subscribers [...]

Xview, Megacable’s OTT, records more than one million subscribers at the end of Q2 2020

On its Q2 2020 quarterly results report, Megacable reported that its OTT Xview ended the quarter with more than a million subscribers, achieving more than 200 thousand net additions during the period. According to the report, the Megacable platform reported a growth of 23.1% in relation to the subscribers it got in Q1 2020, and, [...]

Netflix records more than 36 million subscribers in Latin America and appoints Ted Sarandos as co-CEO

In its Q2 2020 results report, Netflix officially announced it has recorded 36.07 million subscribers in Latin America. The figure means 1,752 million customers more than the 34.3 million with which the platform ended Q1 2020, and just over 8.1 million in relation to the end of Q2 2019. In addition, Red Hastings, CEO at [...]