Trans Ocean Network: We will launch a disruptive video service in Q1 2022 in Panama

Disruption is the trademark of Trans Ocean Network, an ISP with almost eight years in Panama, and that now is preparing to offer video services. “Nobody wants to be subject to a schedule anymore, we want to do something different, an application on your device where you can access your IPTV, leveraged with our infrastructure and international content allies,” explains Joaquín Victoria Díaz, general manager of Trans Ocean Network at the framework of the final day of the Nextv Central America of Dataxis.

Victoria, who participated in the panel New OTT TV models for Internet Service Providers (ISP), explained that in Panama Internet service is more important than TV. He added that the video service they will offer will use their infrastructure and connectivity. “We have talked with content providers, we do not believe in a grid of 400 channels, but in a consolidated grid with news, sports, that meets the needs of our users. It’s well advanced with vendors and in looking at the technical for launch in the first third of 2022,” he said.

Dmitry Erankevich, Business Development Manager of Yota Nicaragua, and Esteban Salcedo Fuks, General Manager of Venite also joined the panel.

Salcedo agreed with Victoria that the ISP operator has to offer video in addition to the Internet, but in Guatemala less than 45% of the population is unbanked, which presents a problem when using an automatic debit platform. “As aggregators or ISPs we must find a way to bring content to be watched at the time and way that the client wants. It is something that we must do, add the multiple applications that are in the market.”

Erankevich of Yota Nicaragua, who has been in the market for 11 years, said that the future strategy is to migrate to services able to support mobile device technology. “We will do it in the short term, a year and a half to emigrate the entire network. We are going to this region by region and we will be starting in three months. I think that migration to mobile devices is a global trend,” he pointed out.