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Monday, December 09, 2019

Iplan and DirecTV joint offer to compete in the city of Buenos Aires

Based on an agreement between both companies, up to four decoders with basic HD programming, and 200 Mbps of fixed broadband with fiber, can be used for around US$ 33 per month.

Alfredo de Cucco, director of the Residential Business Unit of Iplan, told Convergencialatina that Iplan users will be able to access DirecTV GO without being customers of DirecTV between January and March 2020. They are still defining how the streaming platform of DirecTV. Likewise, available for Iplan users who also hire DirecTV, but in a second stage DirecTV GO will be offered to all users of the Internet provider, regardless of whether or not they are DirecTV customers. "Surely in the beginning we will have both models together," he projected.

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