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At the beginning of February, Telefonica Brasil and TVA will commercially launch the “TVXtrem” pay-TV service via an IPTV platform and with high definition content.

Industria recently announced a new Zignal Cloud™ service offering that utilizes Amazon Web Services™, including the Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). By leveraging Amazon Web Services, Industria drops the entry barrier of infrastructure costs to IPTV service providers, lowering the total cost of ownership as well as ensuring predictability of cost. Zignal Cloud™ is currently available by invitation only, but service providers can register to be included in the beta program at Industria.com.

Zignal Cloud™ offers anyone with access to the required content to become a TV operator, capitalizing on the latest technology and innovation in the IPTV space.

The Paraguayan Communications company (COPACO) will launch IPTV during the second quarter of this year if the hiring regime to which they are subjected because they are a state owned company, is fulfilled as expected.

SES NEW SKIES announced that it will host IPTV Americas on its NSS-806 satellite. This will enable IPTV Americas to offer an end-to-end satellite-delivered IPTV distribution solution to all telecommunications and cable operators’ head ends in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IPTV Americas’ content will be distributed to the entire Americas via NSS-806, one of the most widely used video satellites in the region. The services will uplink from the SES NEW SKIES’ Washington Mediaport located in the Washington D.C. area.

Telefonica Argentina has started to test a video-on-demand (VOD) system with 100 clients in Buenos Aires, reports TV Telco Latam.