Latin America Digital TV News

Paraguay ends 2013 with 347,000 pay TV subscribers
Jul 29, 2014 – Paraguay’s telecoms services regulator (CONATEL) has released telecommunications statistics for 2013. The country ended the year with 347 thousand pay TV subscribers, up from 293 thousand at the end of June.
News categories: CONATEL, Cable TV, IPTV, Paraguay, Satellite, Subscribers

Brazil adds 513,000 pay TV subscribers in 2Q 2014
Jul 29, 2014 – According to Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country’s pay TV subscriber base ended June 2014 at 18.97 million, with 513 thousand new subscribers being added in the quarter and 2 million over the preceding 12 months.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Telsur selects ATEME encoder for iOS streaming
Jul 29, 2014 – ATEME has announced that Telefonica del Sur (Telsur) has selected ATEME's TITAN Live to deliver a new streaming service for iOS devices and enhance video quality for its existing IPTV subscribers.
News categories: ATEME, Telsur, Cristian Raul Carcamo Gomez, Raoul Rivera, Chile, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, TV Everywhere

Digital TV Research provides Netflix subscriber split by country
Jul 24, 2014 – Digital TV Research has made estimates of the number of subscribers that Netflix has in the countries in which it operates. At the end of June, the top two international markets for Netflix were the UK and Canada.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Ireland, Latin America, Market Research, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Streaming, Subscribers, Sweden, UK, USA

Satellite TV revenues to reach $100 billion
Jul 23, 2014 – Satellite TV revenues will reach $99.9 billion in 2020, up from $87.8 billion in 2013 and $69.3 billion in 2010, according to a report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Simon Murray, Africa, Asia, Digital TV, Digital TV Research Reports, Europe, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Satellite, Subscribers, Worldwide

Netflix adds 1.69 million members in 2Q 2014
Jul 22, 2014 – Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has released its second-quarter 2014 financial results. The U.S. member base grew to more than 36 million. Outside the U.S. the company ended Q2 with 13.8 million members, growing 78% y/y.
News categories: Netflix, Cable TV, Europe, Latin America, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

América Móvil pay TV subscribers pass 20 million
Jul 21, 2014 – América Móvil (BMV:AMX; NYSE:AMX; NASDAQ:AMOV; LATIBEX:XAMXL) has announced results for the second quarter of 2014. The company had 20.3 million pay TV subscribers at the end of June, adding 608 thousand in the quarter.
News categories: América Móvil, Brazil, Cable TV, Latin America, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Number of IPTV subscribers to double by 2020
Jul 16, 2014 – The number of homes paying for IPTV will rocket to 191 million by end-2020; more than double the 90 million recorded at end-2013 and up from only 36 million at end-2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Africa, Asia, Digital TV, Digital TV Research Reports, Europe, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Subscribers, Worldwide

Anatel releases rules to minimise LTE interference to TV signals
Jul 14, 2014 – Brazilian telecoms regulator, Anatel, has proposed rules governing the interaction of digital television signals in the 698MHz to 806MHz band and LTE-based mobile services operating in the 700MHz frequency band.
News categories: Anatel, 5G, Brazil, Digital TV, Mobile, Regulation, SBTVD