by Hernán Amaya | Mar 9, 2021 | OTT / VOD
Telecommunications company Telefónica de Chile has announced that its streaming platform Movistar Play may be signed up for by non-customers. The only plan available to non-customers is Full, which offers 55 Free To Air and Pay TV linear channels and a wide VOD...
Latin America:
Liberty interested in acquiring Telefónica’s Colombia and Ecuador units
by Virginia Anziano | Dec 15, 2020 | Telecommunications
According to U.S. financial advisory services company Bloomberg, telecommunications operator Liberty Latin America (LLA) is considering the acquisition of Telefónica’s businesses in Colombia and Ecuador, where Telefónica operates under the brand name Movistar. The...
Chile:
WOM television service project moves forward
by Hernán Amaya | Dec 7, 2020 | Audiovisual Market in General
Chilean mobile operator WOM keeps working on its project to launch a TV service, known as WOM TV for the time being. Specialized website Pisapapeles has provided details on the beta version of the service and revealed that it will use an Android TV-based STB. It is...
Colombia:
DirecTV launches 5G Internet in Bogotá to supplement its Satellite TV service
by Hernán Amaya | Sep 7, 2020 | Telecommunications
DirecTV, owned by AT&T, has begun to provide fixed wireless 5G Internet in some neighborhoods of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city. It is the first 5G Internet network in the country. In this way, the Satellite TV operator expands its double play offering (TV +...
Argentina:
Unconcluded Disney-Fox merger delays Cabase members’ IPTV service
by Hernán Amaya | Jul 15, 2020 | Pay TV
Cabase (Argentine Internet Chamber) President Ariel Graizer said that many of the chamber’s members throughout Argentina, which are Internet providers (ISPs), have not launched their own IPTV service. The fact that Disney-Fox merger is still unconcluded has resulted...