Latin America Digital TV News

Brazil adds 446k pay TV subscribers in 1Q10
Apr 26, 2010 – According to Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), with 194,137 new subscribers added in March 2010, Brazil reached the end of the first quarter of 2010 with 7,919,380 homes with pay TV. Satellite (DTH) was the fastest growing segment.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

ZTE and Vivo unveil low-cost handset with digital TV for Brazil
Apr 21, 2010 – ZTE (Hong Kong: 0763 / Shenzhen: 000063) has announced the Brazilian launch of the new handset N290, a low-cost cell phone with digital TV, in Brazil.
News categories: ZTE, Vivo, 5G, Brazil, Mobile

SES WORLD SKIES Signs Capacity Deal with Puerto Rico Telephone for CLARO TV DTH
Apr 13, 2010 – SES WORLD SKIES (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has announced that it has signed a long-term, multi-transponder deal with Puerto Rico Telephone, a subsidiary of América Móvil, to deliver its CLARO TV DTH television offering to homes across Puerto Rico.
News categories: SES WORLD SKIES, Puerto Rico Telephone, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Puerto Rico, Satellite

427,000 pay TV subscribers in Uruguay at end-2009
Apr 9, 2010 – The Uruguayan communications regulator URSEC has released a survey of the telecommunications market in Uruguay up to the end of December 2009. The number of Pay TV subscribers at the end of the year was 427,000 up from 416,000 at the end of 2008.
News categories: URSEC, Cable TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay

Japan to provide 40,000 ISDB set-tops to Ecuador
Mar 31, 2010 – According to Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones, Japan will deliver to Ecuador 40,000 set-top decoders for low-income people to use with their televisions to receive the ISDB-T digital TV service to be launched in the country.
News categories: SUPERTEL, Ecuador, ISDB-T, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Digital TV launches in Peru
Mar 31, 2010 – Digital terrestrial television (DTT) using the Japanese ISDB-T format has launched in Peru.
News categories: Digital TV, ISDB-T, Peru, Terrestrial

Claro TV DTH launches in Puerto Rico
Mar 31, 2010 – América Móvil (BMV: AMXL; NYSE: AMX) subsidiary Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT) has launched satellite digital TV in Puerto Rico under the Claro TV brand name.
News categories: PRT, Digital TV, DVR, Puerto Rico, Satellite, Set Top Box

Argentina launches digital TV
Mar 30, 2010 – Argentina's Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido has said that 75 percent of Argentines will be able to enjoy free-to-air digital terrestrial television this year, with 95% of the country covered by 2012.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Satellite, SBTVD, Terrestrial

Ecuador confirms ISDB-T choice
Mar 25, 2010 – Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has recommended to the country's Consejo Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL) that Ecuador should proceed with the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-T variant as its DTT standard.
News categories: SUPERTEL, CONATEL, Digital TV, Ecuador, ISDB-T, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial