Panama. Within the framework of the Tepal 25 congress, held at the Sheraton hotel in Panama, the forum on growth strategies and new services for Pay-TV and network operators was held, in which the future of the cable industry was analyzed with the leaders of the main companies in the region.
Undoubtedly, the issue that most worries Pay-TV operators are OTT companies such as Netflix and Clarovideo, before which Carlos Moltini, CEO of Cablevisión and director of Tepal Argentina, made an interesting reflection:
"Netflix gained a space with old bookstores. Its emergence is the product of the look of what consumers want with the individual as the axis and not the home. If cable operators had had that vision a few years earlier they wouldn't have had as much space. If content is king as we always say, why does Netflix succeed with old content when we're the ones with the news?"
The Cablevisión executive added that in his view, OTTs will be niche services, complementary, based on distributors doing something different.
The panel was also attended by Enrique Yamuni, CEO of Megacable de México, and Mauricio Ramos, president of Millicom and president of Tepal, who analyzed the evolution of the business and the future of internet service.
In this regard, Enrique Yamuni stressed that the service must evolve to metropolitan networks, through which users can access wireless internet with the account they pay at home. To achieve this, agreements must be created between operators that allow each other's networks to be used in certain places. What limits they would have are also being discussed.
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