by Hernán Amaya | Apr 9, 2024 | Telecommunications
By means of Urgency Executive Order (in Spanish DNU) No. 302 of April 9, Milei’s administration overturned Executive Order No. 690, which was issued in 2020 and set forth that Pay TV, Internet and mobile phone services were to be considered essential public utilities....
by Hernán Amaya | Mar 22, 2024 | Telecommunications
Grupo Werthein’s Vrio Division, which manages operators DirecTV in Spanish-speaking South America and Sky in Brazil, offers its Internet service through a Fiber to the Home network that has already totalled 40 million homes passed throughout the region. The...
by Camila Sirolli | Mar 12, 2024 | Telecommunications
Carlos Magariños, Director of Global Strategy and External Affairs at Vrio Corp. (Grupo Werthein), division that controls Satellite TV operator DirecTV, stated that “today’s Uruguay discriminates against companies wishing to compete”. The statement, which...
by Hernán Amaya | Feb 27, 2024 | OTT / VOD
As had been scheduled, audiovisual multinational Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) implemented the transformation of its main streaming platform in Latin America on February 27, when HBO Max became Max throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America, Brazil and the Caribbean. A...
by Camila Sirolli | Jan 18, 2024 | Pay TV
Chilean operator ClaroVTR has sold its Satellite TV business to TuVes, a Latin American wholesale and retail Satellite TV provider. The merger between VTR, owned by Liberty Latin America, and Claro Chile, owned by América Móvil, was approved in October 2022 by Chile’s...
