Caribbean Digital TV News

DIRECTV U.S. up 224,000 subscribers and DTVLA up 128,000 in 2Q09
Aug 6, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported second quarter 2009 results. DIRECTV U.S. net subscriber additions were 224,000 to give 18.31 million, and DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions were 128,000 to give 4.16 million, at quarter end.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, DVR, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Cuba takes first steps to Digital TV
May 12, 2009 – Cuba has created a commission to manage its transition to digital TV transmission. This was announced at a press conference by representatives of the ICRT and Ministerio de la Informática y las Comunicaciones that formed the commission.
News categories: ICRT, Ministerio de la Informática y las Comunicaciones, Content Distribution, Cuba, Digital TV, DTMB, ISDB-T, SBTVD, Terrestrial

DIRECTV U.S. at 18 million subscribers; DTVLA at 4 million
May 7, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported results for the first quarter. DIRECTV U.S. net subscriber additions were 460,000 to give 18.08 million, and DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions were 148,000 to give 4.03 million, at quarter end.
News categories: DIRECTV, DIRECTV Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, DVR, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Grupo Televisa's Sky adds 140k subscribers Y-o-Y to end 1Q09
Apr 30, 2009 – Grupo Televisa (NYSE:TV; BMV: TLEVISA CPO) has announced results for first quarter 2009. The number of gross active Sky subscribers increased to 1,784,608 as of March 31, 2009, compared with 1,642,923 as of March 31, 2008.
News categories: Televisa, Cable TV, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Codetel Adopts CopperGate IPTV Technology
Mar 9, 2009 – CopperGate Communications has announced that Codetel of the Dominican Republic has selected CopperGate's HomePNA 3.1 technology for its Claro TV IPTV service.
News categories: CopperGate, Codetel, Dominican Republic, IPTV, Smart Home

Codetel teams with Alcatel-Lucent to launch IPTV in the Dominican Republic
Feb 25, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent (Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced that Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (Codetel) has launched a nationwide IPTV offering, providing subscribers across the country with high-quality TV programming, VoD and other multimedia services.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, CODETEL, Victor Agnellini, Oscar Peña, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Dominican Republic, IPTV, Middleware

The DIRECTV Group Q4 Results Cap Record Setting Financial Performance in 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported fourth quarter 2008 results. DIRECTV U.S. ended the quarter with 17.62 million subscribers, up from 16.83 million on December 31, 2007. DIRECTV Latin America had 3.88 million subscribers at year end.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, DVR, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Motorola CCE Enables CODETEL to Launch Innovative Pay TV Service
Feb 9, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that CODETEL has selected Motorola's Communications Convergence Engine (CCE) to launch a new wave of innovative Pay TV service offerings in the Caribbean.
News categories: Motorola, CODETEL, América Móvil, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Dominican Republic, IPTV

More Microsoft IPTV deployments in Latin America?
Feb 3, 2009 – According to TV TELCO Latam, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could soon add Codetel in the Dominican Republic and PRT (Claro) of Puerto Rico, both part of América Móvil, to its existing Microsoft Mediaroom deployment with Mexico's Maxcom.
News categories: América Móvil, Microsoft, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Dominican Republic, IPTV, Mexico, Middleware, Puerto Rico