Colombia. The International Telecommunication Union, ITU, and the Communications Regulation Commission, CRC, held in Bogotá the workshop The Future of Television in the Americas, an event that was attended by the members of the National Television Board (JNTV), Suzy Sierra Ruiz and engineer Ernesto Orozco Orozco.
Suzy Sierra Ruiz said that "Colombia is the third country in Latin America with the highest growth of cable subscribers, according to the CRC in 2017, it grew by 8.5%, it is expected that with the regulatory modifications this percentage will increase"
He also pointed out that in the National Television Authority, ANTV, "we make regulatory decisions to improve equity, in a technical dialogue with the sector aiming to eliminate asymmetries, reduce burdens for greater supply in less populated and rural sectors", and also invited the sector to be allies to reduce the gap in access, appropriation and literacy. "
For his part, Orozco Orozco recalled that Colombia has had a legal framework dating from 1995 and a regulatory framework of 2006 "that hindered the development, promotion and growth of pay television in Colombia", that is why from the JNTV regulatory challenges were established "to promote services to the entire Colombian population, guarantee or promote the sustainability of traditional operators compared to other business models and establish a level of regulatory intervention taking into account the diffuse and limited information we had about the market".
The event was attended by Gabriel Levy, content coordinator of the ANTV, who was moderator of the talk on 'The technological evolution of television' and had prominent international panelists such as Shinya Takeuchi, from NHK World; Hugo Ramos, representative of ARRIS; and Natalia Guerra, director of public and regulatory affairs at Telefónica Colombia.
