The sale of pirated STBs and the growth of IPTVs in Brazil began to negatively impact the financial results and audience measurements of the main operators in São Paulo, according to local news portal Teleguiado. Faced with the possibility of acquiring a pay TV service with a single purchase of between USD 150 and USD [...]
As confirmed by Ana Julia Marine Lopez, Cuban Sub-Minister of Communications, days ago to the local newspaper Granma, the country’s Communications Ministry has put the analog blackout off for 2024. Regarding the reasons for the decision, the newspaper reports that, initially, the DTT migration process in Cuba was going to be implemented between 2013 and [...]
Nelson de Jesus Arroyo, President of the Board of Directors of the Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (Indotel), reported that the Dominican telecommunications regulator will remain focused on the analog blackout’s implementation in the Caribbean country, which is scheduled for 2022 This way, a USD 30 million investment in STBs for DTT on the island [...]
After announcing that the services of the ‘Net’ brand would become available under the ‘Claro’ brand in Brazil, now América Móvil renewed the navigation interface of several STBs of Net customers, which now began to visualize a a visual aesthetic more related to Claro. America Movil began the Claro/Net integration in 2015, although, in July [...]
In its Q4 2019 quarterly results report, Megacable officially reported that its OTT Xview recorded 111 thousand net additions during the period, to reach 827 thousand subscribers at the end of 2019. The figure, according to the company’s report, means a 15.4% growth in relation to Q3 2019. On the other hand, the Mexican group [...]
Brazilian Federal Revenue Department, better known as Receita Federal, has destroyed 12 thousand STBs used for piracy activities in the pay TV business this year. Since 2016, 112 thousand have already been destroyed, with losses estimated at USD 2334.7 million per year. ‘The Federal Revenue Department, committed to combat cross-border crimes, such as smuggling, records [...]