Among South American countries, Venezuela ranks last for fixed and mobile broadband penetration, placing the country among the lowest in the region in BuddeComm’s Telecom Maturity Index. Key developments:
Simon Bolivar Satellite (VeneSat-1) drifts off its allocated orbital path and becomes non-operational;
AT&T closes its DirecTV Latin America unit in Venezuela due to US sanctions, Chilean investment firm Scale Capital acquires DirecTV’s operations, aims to launch mobile services;
Pluto TV launches ad-supported streaming platform;
Chilean investment firm Scale Capital acquires DirecTV’s operations, aims to launch mobile services;
Conatel awards new ISP licence to Conext Venezuela;
Report update includes the regulator’s market data to December 2019, operator data updates to Q4 2020, Telecom Maturity Index charts and analyses, assessment of the global impact of Covid-19 on the telecoms sector, recent market developments.