Latin America Digital TV News

Colombia's ETB targets IPTV launch for 3Q 2013
Feb 6, 2013 – In an interview with Dinero.com, the President of Colombia's Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá (ETB) has said that the company will launch its IPTV service in the second half of this year, most likely in August or September.
News categories: Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV

Venezuela adds 599,000 pay TV subscribers in 2012
Feb 5, 2013 – According to preliminary statistics published by its Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL), pay TV subscriptions in Venezuela at the end of 2012 were 3.40 million, up from 2.80 million at the end of 2011.
News categories: CONATEL, Cable TV, Satellite, Subscribers, Venezuela

Mexico's AXTEL selects mirada's Navi UI for IPTV
Feb 4, 2013 – At the end of January, AXTEL launched its 'TV sin Horarios' hybrid IPTV/DTT service in Mexico. For the service, AXTEL selected to deploy, in collaboration with Ericsson, mirada's Navi SVG-based interactive TV user interface.
News categories: mirada, AXTEL, Digital TV, IPTV, Mexico, Middleware, Terrestrial

Brazil adds 2.86 million satellite TV subscribers in 2012
Jan 28, 2013 – According to Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country's pay TV subscriber base ended 2012 at 16.2 million, with more than 3.4 million new subscribers being added during the year - an annual growth rate of 27.0%.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

RVU Alliance Expands to Include New Operators In Latin America
Jan 7, 2013 – The RVU Alliance has welcomed two new members, with Sky Mexico and DIRECTV PanAmericana, joining DIRECTV and Sky Brasil to the roster of Pay TV broadcast operators supporting the standard.
News categories: RVU Alliance, Sky Mexico, DIRECTV Latin America, Argentina, Caribbean, CES2025, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Gateway, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Smart Home, Uruguay, Venezuela

IPTV Copaco to launch in Paraguay on December 14th
Dec 5, 2012 – Paraguay's state-owned Compañía Paraguaya de Comunicaciones (Copaco) has announced that it will officially launch its IPTV platform on December 14 in the cities of Concepción and Horqueta.
News categories: COPACO, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Paraguay, Set Top Box

Teletec wins Tijuana set-top box tender
Nov 26, 2012 – Mexico's Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL) has announced that Teletec has won the tender to provide set-top boxes for the roll-out of digital terrestrial TV in Tijuana, Mexico's first city to have the service.
News categories: COFETEL, Teletec de México, Digital TV, Mexico, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Satellite adds another 369,000 subscribers in Mexico in 3Q 2012
Nov 26, 2012 – According to Mexico's Telecommunications Sector Production Index, at the end of the third quarter of 2012 there were 6.655 million DTH subscribers in the country, an increase of 22.9% versus Q3 2011. Cable TV lost 49 thousand subscribers in the quarter.
News categories: COFETEL, Cable TV, Digital TV, Mexico, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Telefónica and Microsoft to Deploy New Global Video Platform
Nov 15, 2012 – Telefónica (Madrid, NYSE: TEF) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have announced an agreement to create a new Global Video Platform (GVP) for all video entertainment services across Telefónica's Operating Businesses.
News categories: Telefónica, Microsoft, Vivek Dev, Tom Gibbons, Brazil, Chile, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Streaming