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To: carreraspyder who wrote (30671)	6/21/2005 6:13:20 PM
From: carreraspyder	Respond to of 30916

(prior release) -- TVA/NTOP TVA to Launch VoIP for Residential Customers Through Partnership with Net2Phone www6.lexisnexis.com d=688&topicId=14467&docId=l:271649908&start=1 World Markets Analysis April 12, 2005 Fernanda Veiga TVA, the second biggest Brazilian cable TV provider, has announced that it will start offering VoIP services to its residential customers in May 2005, according to Business News America. TVA is offering VoIP services to corporate customers through its Ajato Voz service (see Brazil: 11 August 2004: TVA to Launch VoIP in Brazil). In order to launch VoIP services to residential customers, TVA formed a partnership with US company Net2Phone and local company Primeira Escolha, which holds a VoIP licence to operate. Significance: TVA was the first Brazilian pay-TV operator and it continues to pursue its strategy of innovation by offering the latest services to its customers, while encouraging new customer growth and moving its existing customer base up the value chain by offering triple-play TV, broadband internet and voice services. It is constantly expanding into a multi-service telecoms provider in harmony with the converging media trend. By end 2003, TVA had approximately 300,000 pay-TV subscribers and 20,000 broadband subscribers. TVA has the flexibility to operate with two technologies - cable and MMDS for both television and broadband internet services - and it offers its services in six Brazilian cities. TVA is a division of the Abril Group, one of Latin America's largest communications groups, with integrated operations across a variety of media, supplying magazines, textbooks, broadband internet, music and pay-TV. On the other hand, Net, the biggest Brazilian cable TV operator, is still adapting its infrastructure to enable VoIP services and provide modems to Net's customers. Therefore, Net's VoIP services will only be launched by end 2005 (see Brazil: 5 April 2005: Net Selects Motorola for VoIP Enablement). Brazilian competitive telco GVT entered the VoIP market in Brazil in September 2004 and in February 2005, GVT announced that it would be investing 50 million reais (US$19.3 million) in its VoIP service by end 2006 (see Brazil: 16 September: GVT to Offer VoIP in Brazil). ******** hearstcorp.com Tevecap S.A. (TVA) Rua do Rocio, 313 Sao Paulo - SP, Brazil CEP04552-904 Telephone: 011-5511-821-8553 Fax: 011-5511-821-8770 CEO: Jose Augusto Moreira TVA, one of the leading pay-TV companies in Brazil, owns and operates eight pay-TV systems and a network of 42 affiliated pay-TV operators. The Hearst Corporation and ABC jointly own a 20 percent interest in TVA, which is majority-owned by Abril Group, one of South America's largest communications outfits. Founded in 1991, TVA functions as both a programmer and operator and has more than 600,000 direct and indirect subscribers. The company provides programming regionally via cable, multichannel multipoint distribution service, and C-Band direct-to-home, all of which include HBO, ESPN Brazil, MTV Brazil and other services, as well as rights to about 400 soccer matches. TVA is a partner in the Ku-Band Galaxy satellite service, Galaxy Latin America (GLA), launched in December 1995. The service airs direct-to-home throughout Latin America with 144 channels. Other partners in GLA include Hughes Communications, the Cisneros Group of companies in Venezuela, and MVS Multivision in Mexico.