Latin America Digital TV News

SNL Kagan Publishes Global HDTV Study
Nov 8, 2007 – "Global High Definition Television Trends," a new study from SNL Kagan, reports that pay-TV operators are increasingly using HDTV service to distinguish themselves in competitive markets.
News categories: SNL Kagan, Australia, Brazil, Cable TV, Canada, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Mexico, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK, USA

Liberty Global Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results
Nov 8, 2007 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007. Digital cable additions continued to accelerate in the third quarter, with the addition of 234,000 organic RGUs, a 19% improvement over the comparable period in 2006.
News categories: Liberty Global, Earnings Release, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Sagem Communications, Orca Interactive and BitBand Team Up on First-Class End-to-End IPTV Solution in Colombia
Nov 8, 2007 – Sagem Communications, Orca Interactive (LSE: ORCA) and BitBand have announced that they have been selected by UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones in Colombia to jointly offer a powerful End-to-End IPTV solution, focused on an enhanced quality of experience for users.
News categories: BitBand, Sagem Communications, Orca Interactive, UNE-EPM Telecommunications, Colombia, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

The DIRECTV Group Announces Third Quarter 2007 Results
Nov 7, 2007 – DIRECTV (NYSE:DTV) U.S. net subscriber additions increased 45% to 240,000 in the quarter bringing the total number of subscribers as of September 30, 2007 to 16.56 million. DIRECTV Latin America had a nearly fourfold increase in net subscriber additions to 161,000.
News categories: DIRECTV, DIRECTV Latin America, Earnings Release, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

OECD broadband statistics (June 2007)
Nov 5, 2007 – Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD increased 24% from 178 million in June 2006 to 221 million subscribers in June 2007. Broadband penetration rates increased from 15.1 in June 2006 to 18.8 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants one year later.
News categories: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Broadband Statistics Portal, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Market Research, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA

Amino Powers First Wireless IPTV Connected Homes in Latin America
Oct 24, 2007 – Amino has announced that Telefonica del Sur (Telsur) in Chile has selected the AmiNET110 IPTV Set-Top Box (STB) to deliver pure IPTV services to thousands of its customers in the region.
News categories: Amino, Telefonica del Sur (Telsur), Chile, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home

UNE-EPM Telecommunications Selects Orca Interactive for First IPTV Service Rollout in Colombia
Oct 23, 2007 – Orca Interactive Ltd. (LSE:ORCA) has announced that UNE-EPM Telecommunications has selected Orca's advanced RiGHTv middleware to enable the first IPTV service rollout in Colombia.
News categories: UNE-EPM Telecommunications, Orca Interactive, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware

Net Serviços de Comunicação Third Quarter 2007 Results
Oct 18, 2007 – Net's customer base connected to digital video closed the quarter at 419 thousand subscribers, up 210% compared to the base of 135 thousand subscribers at the end of the same period the previous year.
News categories: Net Serviços de Comunicação, Earnings Release, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers

First IPTV Service in Latin America Goes Wireless in the Home
Oct 8, 2007 – Ruckus Wireless has announced that it has been selected by Telefonica del Sur (TelSur), a leading provider of Internet-based multimedia and communication services in Chile, to supply its MediaFlex™ to support Latin America's first commercial IPTV service.
News categories: Ruckus Wireless, Telefonica del Sur, BBWF, Chile, Digital TV, IPTV, Smart Home