Venezuela. To innovate in the business model in the way of delivering high-definition pay satellite television services, the Venezuelan company Intercable reached an agreement with the Chilean Tuves HD.
With this agreement, the service of Intercable, operator of the satellite television system, offers a wide programmatic grid that includes all local signals, HD as part of the basic service and a high image quality based on MPEG 4 technology and a robust encryption system of satellite television signals, which allows to have non-hacked service.
In addition, users will have the possibility to record, pause and rewind (PVR) the contents and reaching places in the country that conventional cable TV can not access since the first of August.
According to data from the consultancy Signals Telecom Consulting, DTH will become the main Pay-TV platform in Venezuela by 2016, where it will represent 59% of subscribers in service and will have 7.3% of all subscribers in Latin America.
Intercable is one of the most ambitious telecommunications projects in Venezuela backed by the most modern technology. It currently has a network of more than 14 thousand kilometers of fiber optics and presence in 70 cities reaching more than 1,200,000 homes, expanding its arrival throughout the country with the new DTH service.
For its part, TuVes HD, is the first time it enters the Venezuelan market, as today it has a presence in several countries in the region such as Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia.
