Pay TV informal connections represent 52% of … – Daily Perú21

To our houses reach two types of TV signals: Open TV (America, Pan American, ATV , etc.) and Pay TV .

The latter, traditionally known as “cable”, now reaches 36% of Peruvian households through physical cable or satellite formally or informally, and is provided by a series suppliers that vary from region to region.

For example, there are 11 in Lima, Piura ten, eight in Lambayeque, among others.

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Informal connections, which represent 52% of total households access, come in several forms, these four types: the best known is one in which a person “click” the physical wires that carry signal to a neighbor, with or without their consent, through a divider signal.

Also cases users connecting to the satellite network via a decoder observed that “decrypt” the satellite signal through Free to Air receivers altered.

There, on the other hand, cases of signal piracy by manipulating of the decoders equipment operators, is acquiring the service and then staying with the team after giving them low or buying them on the black market.

Finally, companies are taking granting the Ministry of Transport and Communications ( MTC ), develop informal practices, connecting to formal network of another provider without prior agreement or payment.
In the last ten years, the use of the Paid TV has gone from 9% to 36% (as noted above), but the informality has increased from 6 % to 52%, which makes us the regional leaders.

According to our estimates, for every three new users who have captured the informal, one has abandoned the formal operator, attracted by lower prices, so that informality functions as the dominant competitor Pay TV markets, disciplining prices. In fact, today we can say that informality leads sales in 16 regions, while the formality leads the market in just nine. Movistar in April, DirecTV 3 course in 1 and Star Global in 1

A State Away
Markets * should * create the necessary incentives for “healthy creative destruction” to encourage the development of new technologies at lower prices to the benefit of users.

The case is emblematic Paid TV, just by the absence of state oversight.

Currently, there is no applicable penalty system to concessionaires with informal practices; it is rare that the Ministry of Transport and Communications ( MTC ) cancel the concession unauthorized programming another dealer redistribution, and no basic coordination between authorities is observed Involved Sunat, MTC , National Police of Peru and the judiciary.

It is clear that there is no political will to reduce informality, although annually more than 300 million suns lost in taxes (only in General Sales Tax). Doing so is unpopular and elections will not change this reality.

Any improvement appears to have to come corporate actions like throwing packages that compete with the informal offer or digitizing network. It is a stateless market

On. Fernando Caceres / Taxpayers for Respect

This study was conducted by Taxpayers for Respect as part of Infrastructure for All.

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