Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Initial assessments of regulatory frameworks due to OTT video emergence

In Colombia OTT considered as possible replacements for Premium packages offered by pay TV, but considered as direct competitors of traditional TV. Mexican regulator analyzes issue specially as it could affect Televisa and America prevalence statement.

The regulatory body in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission, FCC,  installed in December 2014 the debate to extend  to OTT (only those that offer traditional TV channels in their programming schedule)  the same regulation than those for providers of pay television. Thus, it would reclassify the OTT as providers of multichannel video providers distribution (MVPD) who have, for example, the obligation to provide subtitles, a service for blind people, access to emergency information, ease of access in interfaces to users, guides and menus. But the most controversial point has to do with the business with owners of content: FCC expects that video OTT have the same rights of access to content than established pay-TV operators. Thisr convinces small streaming companies such as Pluto TV, SkyAngel, FilmOn, but causes distrust on big players like Google, Apple and Amazon, who fear that behind these early regulations, come other.

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