Costa Rica Digital TV News

Minerva Passes 200 IPTV Deployment Milestone
Aug 23, 2010 – Recent wins including Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative and Swiftel Communications in North America, ICE in Costa Rica, PCCTV in Cambodia, and Palm Hills Development in the Middle East have increased the total number of Minerva's worldwide IPTV deployments to over two hundred (200).
News categories: Minerva Networks, Cambodia, Costa Rica, IPTV, Market Research, Middle-East, USA

Ericsson to upgrade network of Cable Tica in Costa Rica
May 4, 2010 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has signed a five-year contract with cable television operator Cable Tica of Costa Rica to build and operate its next generation optical fibre backbone network. The network will allow for future deployment of IPTV.
News categories: Ericsson, Cable Tica, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Costa Rica, Fibre, IPTV

Costa Rica favours ISDB-Tb for digital TV
Apr 30, 2010 – The special commission set up by the government of Costa Rica to choose the most appropriate digital television system for the country has proposed the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-T model to replace the current analogue system.
News categories: Costa Rica, Digital TV, ISDB-T, SBTVD, Terrestrial

Sky Mexico adds 140k subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 25, 2010 – Grupo Televisa (NYSE:TV; BMV: TLEVISA CPO) has announced results for 2009. During the fourth quarter, Sky added 143 thousand subscribers of which 140 thousand were in Mexico and three thousand were in Central America and the Dominican Republic.
News categories: Grupo Televisa, Cable TV, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Amino To Provide IPTV Set-top Boxes For Costa Rica
Feb 15, 2010 – Amino Communications (AIM: AMO.L) has won the Costa Rican bidding process to provide set-top boxes (STBs) to support a major IPTV rollout by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE - Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad).
News categories: Amino, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box

ICE Receives Approval For IPTV Service in Costa Rica
Nov 17, 2009 – Costa Rica's Contraloría General de la República has given the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) the green light to provide television over the internet.
News categories: Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Contraloría General de la República, Costa Rica, Digital TV, IPTV, Regulation

Costa Rica's ICE to use Minerva, Widevine and Amino for IPTV
Aug 4, 2009 – Costa Rica's ICE will soon sign a contract with system integrator ITS for the deployment of its IPTV service. Middleware will come from Minerva Networks with conditional access from Widevine and set-top boxes from Amino Communications (AIM:AMO).
News categories: Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Amino Communications, Widevine, Minerva Networks, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Costa Rica, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Harris Corporation's New Mobile TV Platform Chosen by Albavision for Broadcast Operations in Guatemala and Costa Rica
Jun 30, 2008 – Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has signed an agreement with Albavision (Angel Gonzalez Group) to implement the recently introduced Harris full mobile digital TV transmission platform for broadcast operations in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
News categories: Harris, REPRETEL, Costa Rica, Digital TV, Guatemala, Mobile

Costa Rica - RACSA plans its fiber-to-the-home network with IPTV
Mar 3, 2008 – State owned company RACSA of Costa Rica has plans to develop an optic-fiber FTTH network in the main and wealthiest urban centers in the country, with the aim of offering triple play to 250 thousand homes at a USD 360 million investment.
News categories: RACSA, Costa Rica, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV