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Brazilian Economic Defense Institution recommends approving purchase of Oi mobile assets

While the wait continues for the ruling of the Brazilian court regarding the purchase of mobile assets of Oi by Claro, Telefónica and TIM, valued at USD 2.9 billion; the Superintendency of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense of Brazil announced that it recommends approving the operation with conditions.  In December 2020, the association made [...]

TIM Brazil to launch new streaming platform in 2021

The telecommunications company TIM Brasil (Telecom Italia) has announced last December 2nd that it is planning to launch a new streaming platform in 2021. The initiative takes place after the arrival of Disney+ in Brazil and the rest of Latin America, as well as the launch of DirecTV GO, which was made available officially in [...]

Tim expands access to Fox App to all his clients in Brazil

Tim Brazil has announced this week that its prepaid, postpaid and Tim Controle mobile plan customers will also be able to access the Fox App platform, for a R$ 34.90 (USD 6.5) monthly subscription. Fox App makes available linear Fox channels, such as Fox Channel, Fox Life, FX, National Geographic, NatGeo Kids and Fox Sports [...]

Tim adds Looke to its content catalog in Brazil

After the agreement to include Netflix, the Brazilian company Tim announced that its customers already have the Looke platform contents available, which includes a more that eight thousand titles with movies, series, music shows, documentaries, childrens programming, and others.   The Tim Black plan customers, in their Tim Postpaid D Plus, Tim Postpaid E Plus and [...]

New Tim Brazil’s family plan includes Netflix

Brazilian telecommunications company Tim launched its first family plan, called “TIM Black Family,” which includes Netflix and two other digital services: Tim Music, dedicated to streaming music, and TIM Virtual Banking, which allows digital access to more than 100 magazines. Both plans also include of 60, 100 or 180 GB packages to share between family [...]

Procon notifies Brazilian pay TV operators about football broadcasts in PPV

Consumer Protection and Defense Foundation (Procon), based in San Pablo, Brazil, notified Pay TV operators Claro, Sky, Vivo, Oi and Tim to clarify their subscribers modalities under which they will offer Brazilian Football Championship  broadcastings packages on pay-per-view (PPV). These content generated a USD 27 billion profit in 2018. Procon questioned Brazilian operators about the [...]

Tim allows paying Netflix with postpaid invoice in Brazil

Tim Brazil announced an agreement with Netflix, in which it will allow to pay the OTT account in the operators monthly invoice. The possibility is available to subscribers of the Tim Black postpaid plan -with the exception of the Express modality-. Tim is the first cell phone operator to include this offer. Net includes that [...]

Anatel decides how to invest after Brazilian TV digitalization

Last Friday, February 1st, telecommunications companies deadline to submit to  National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) projects to use approximately USD 218.7 million after finishing Brazilian digitizing TV process met. Moisés Moreira, Anatel adviser, said he will wait for the decision of the Union General Advocacy (AGU) to determine how to invest the money. Moreira explained that [...]