Claro TV+ is a Latin American operator of
Pay television
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. The service is supplied by
Embratel
Embratel is a major Brazilian telecommunications company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company was the long distance arm of Telebras until it was bought by the U.S. company MCI Communications for 2.65 billion Brazilian real, reais during ...
and
Claro companies and operates in
Star One C4 satellite
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. Its transmission system is
DTH (Direct to Home) in
Ku Band, and the channels are encrypted by
Nagravision 3 system. The reception is made via
mini-satellite dish and a
DVB-S2
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receiver, and subscribers authentication is made by
conditional access card. As of October 2011, Via Embratel had achieved 2,000,000 subscribers.
In Brazil, it was launched as Via Embratel on December 16, 2008, and it was acquired by Claro on March 1, 2012, with the same service, price, payment method, programming, features and quality. The contract remained the same and the invoice was identified by Claro TV, together with Embratel Livre (which became Claro Fixo). On the same day, the Warner Channel debuted in HD. Via Embratel had operations throughout Brazil, as it operated in the satellite pay TV sector. Via Embratel Banda Larga and Via Embratel Fone were only available in some cities in the states of Mato Grosso, Pará, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Maranhão and São Paulo. On June 2, 2010 it started selling packages with HD transmission, initially to the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Nine channels debuted and were added to the 4 main packages.
In
Puerto Rico
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, Claro is deploying
VRAD A video-ready access device (VRAD) provides digital subscriber line access and high-definition television programming to customers subscribed to IPTV services such as AT&T's U-verse, Bell Canada's Bell Fibe TV, Claro Puerto Rico's Claro TV, and Telu ...
s in order to launch its
IPTV
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service which will work parallel with their current satellite service.
Llega Claro TV en Navidad
Coverage
Claro TV+ SATHD Regional DTH has operations throughout Brazil. Two of the most popular broadcast networks, however, are not available nationwide:
* TV Globo
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local affiliates are only available for the 24 most populous markets
* Futura national feed (operated by TV Globo
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).
* SBT
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Its main features are:
*Native support for compiling Scala code and integrating with many Scala test frameworks
*Continuous compilation, t ...
national feed is available for most Brazilian states (except SP, RJ, DF, RS, SC, PA, PR).
Claro hdtv is available in Puerto Rico
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via satellite and is currently testing their IPTV infrastructure with some customers. General availability is expected in early 2013.
See also
* Claro-musica
References
External links
Claro TV (official website)
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Satellite television
América Móvil
Television in Brazil