Cable Television Industry in Argentina

Cable Television Industry in Argentina

Introduction

Argentina's Cable television industry increased phenomenally in the 1990s, connecting to some 5.3m families by 1999, a penetration rate exceeding 50% of all households. However, subscriptions started to drop in late 1999, as the homeland went into a four-year financial recession and buyers slash discretionary spending. Total anecdotes fell to 4.1m last year following the January 2002 peso devaluation (Hartman 2002). With the Industry not anticipated to start recovery until 2005, the Industry is in flux, going in the direction of larger fragmentation and, probably, limitations in foreign ownership.

Broadband and DSL

In early 2001, both incumbents commenced their high-speed Internet services but primarily, broadband services were slow in taking off. During 2001/2002, international telecommunication businesses decreased their scale of procedures in Argentina due to the financial urgent position that the homeland was facing. The homeland begun to retrieve in 2003 and by the end of that year investments began pouring into the broadband part again.

However, regardless of about 30 percent house penetration as of end-2008, in periods of broadband connectivity Argentina still has a way to proceed before catching up with Brazil and Mexico, the region's two booming economies (Antoniazzo 1999). In early 2009 in a try to encourage broadband take-up, Telecom Argentina begun proposing PCs and Laptops with its broadband services. The premium facts and numbers benches have been taken from this profile. As a non-subscriber, you can only glimpse the overview for this profile. Operator Profile subscribers get full gets access to:

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Statistic to Back Development Opportunity

Argentina's Cable-TV businesses are now giving a high cost for their fast expansion. The two biggest, Cablevision (owned by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and Liberty Media, both US) and Multicanal (owned by Argentina's Grupo Clarin), (Jensen & Toscan 1999) each amassed close to US$1bn in foreign liability in the late 1990s to come by dozens of Cable companies over the country.

Cablevision possibly will alter ownership shortly. So-called vulture finance, WR Huff Asset ...