Latin America Digital TV News

Maxcom Reports Results for Full-Year and Fourth Quarter of 2007
Feb 11, 2008 – Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: MXT) (BMV: MAXCOM CPO) has announced its unaudited financial and operating results for the full year ended December 31, 2007. Maxcom had around 6,000 IPTV subscribers at the end of 2007.
News categories: Maxcom, Digital TV, IPTV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers

Thomson participates in First DVB-H Mobile Television Service in Latin America
Feb 6, 2008 – Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) has announced that it is supplying a complete head-end solution to ATV, part of the pan-Latin American media group Albavision, to power a trial mobile television service in Lima, Peru and in Guatemala.
News categories: Thomson, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Guatemala, Mobile, MWC24, Peru

NETC announces today its results for the fourth quarter of 2007
Jan 31, 2008 – Net Serviços de Comunicação (Bovespa: NETC3, NETC4; Nasdaq: NETC; and Latibex: XNET) has announced its results for Q4 and fiscal year 2007. The pay TV subscriber base reached 2,475,000 (604,000 digital) at the end of 2007.
News categories: Net Serviços de Comunicação, Earnings Release, Divulgação de Resultados de 2007, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers

Verimatrix Selected to Secure UNE-EPM IPTV Deployment in Colombia
Jan 28, 2008 – Verimatrix has announced that systems integrator Unión Electrica S.A has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV within its platform solution for the UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones IPTV deployment.
News categories: Verimatrix, Unión Eléctrica, UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones, Colombia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box, Video Exchange

Mobile digital TV in Punta del Este
Jan 25, 2008 – ANCEL of Uruguay has launched a service in Punta del Este, based on the DVB-H standard, that allows direct-to-home digital TV on portable devices such as mobile phones.
News categories: ANTEL/ANCEL, Digital TV, Mobile, Uruguay

Colombia - UNE-EPM to launch IPTV but in 2Q 2008
Jan 16, 2008 – Incumbent of Colombian city of Medellín, UNE-EPM, has confirmed launch of its IPTV system in the second quarter of 2008, contrary to preliminary plans that had scheduled it for the first quarter.
News categories: UNE-EPM, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV

Siano Launches Next Generation Mobile Digital TV Receiver Chip
Jan 2, 2008 – Siano Mobile Silicon has announced the launch of a new family of Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) receiver chips called the SMS1100, supporting reception of ISDB-T TV signals in addition to Siano's existing portfolio of DVB-H, DVB-T, DAB, DAB-IP and T-DMB.
News categories: Siano Mobile Silicon, Brazil, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, ISDB-T, Japan, Mobile, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Digital TV Penetration Rate Will Be 43% in 2012
Dec 27, 2007 – According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), the proportion of digital TV subscribers in the world is expected to exceed 40% by 2012.
News categories: Korea Information Society Development Institute, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Europe, India, IPTV, Japan, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Satellite, Terrestrial, USA

Chile puts off digital television decision to March
Dec 24, 2007 – Chile has postponed until March its decision about which digital television standard it will adopt - Japanese, European or American - government spokesman Francisco Vidal has said.
News categories: Chile, Digital TV, Terrestrial, TV Services