Altice co-founder Armando Pereira has been detained in Portugal as part of an investigation into alleged corruption, tax fraud and money laundering. Altice’s Lisbon headquarters were raided by officers, according to local broadcasters. Altice Portugal is the country’s largest telecoms company and is part of the Dutch-based telecoms and cable group Altice. Portugal’s department of […]
Portuguese media group Media Capital has confirmed its interest in acquiring 100 per cent of peer Cofina Media. The company said it would take part in an auction or ‘another objective and transparent sales process’, organised by Cofina that takes into account the enterprise value of Cofina Media of over €75 million. The confirmation comes […]
Portuguese ISP LigaT is launching a commitment-free streaming TV service in Portugal with three subscription packages. The TV Essencial pack offers exclusively national TV channels for €5.99 per month, while the TV Essencial Plus package combines both Portuguese and international TV channels for €7.99/month. A third package, called TV Plus, will subsequently be launched with […]
Pixellot, a provider of AI-automated sports video and analytics solutions, and the Handball Federation of Portugal (FPA), have entered a partnership whereby all the games of the top leagues will now be live-streamed thanks to the installment of Pixellot systems at venues nationwide. In addition to Genius Sports, who provide the statistics for the league, […]
Pay-TV services in Portugal added 128,000 subscribers in Q1 2023 (+2.9 per cent year-on-year), taking the total to 4.5 million. The National Communications Authority (Anacom) largely attributed the growth to the increasing popularity of FTTH technology, which added 244,000 new accesses (+9.6 per cent) in the quarter and now accounts for 2.8 million pay-TV subscribers. […]
Netflix saw a drop of over 13 per cent in subscriber numbers in Portugal during the first four months of 2023 compared to the same period last year, according to Marktest’s BStream study published by Portuguese daily Público. Between November 2022 and February 2023, the drop in subscribers was 4.6 per cent. The negative performance […]
Vodafone Portugal has launched Vodafone TV play, a 5 in 1 4K TV personalised, dubbed the ‘smart box of the future;. The device brings together embedded Android TV, the interface of the Vodafone TV service, the Android T smart system, voice control support via Google Assistant, and a Bang & Olufsen sound system, with Dolby […]
The CEO of Portuguese media company Media Capital says that DTT in Portugal “is dead” and that the country “is having a hard time burying” the technology Speaking to the Lusa news agency, Pedro Morais Leitão admitted that the plug in DTT cannot be pulled in January 2024 and proposed that the DTT network operator […]
Portuguese media group Media Capital (which owns commercial channel TVI) is considering pulling out of DTT broadcasting, said CEO Pedro Morais Leitão during the ‘Congress of Digital Business’ in Lisbon. According to Morais Leitão, it is necessary to rethink DTT, a technology in which Media Capital – together with Impresa (owner of the SIC channel) […]
The Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), Portugal’s Competition Authority, has launched an in-depth investigation into Vodafone Portugal’s acquisition of local quad-play provider Nowo, expressing competition concerns. The antitrust authority justified its decision with the fact that, “given the evidence so far, it cannot be excluded that the merger will significantly impede effective competition in the national […]