Izzi Telecom
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| Subsidiary of Televisa | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1966 (as Cablevisión) November 3, 2014 (as Izzi Telecom) |
| Headquarters | Mexico City, Mexico |
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Area served
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Mexico |
| Products |
Cable Internet Phone Business |
| Parent | Televisa |
| Website | www |
Izzi Telecom, S.A.B. de C.V. is a telecommunications operator owned by Televisa based in Mexico City. It was the first pay TV operator to offer Triple play (telecommunications) in Mexico City. It currently offers Cable TV, Broadband Internet, Telephone, HDTV and TiVo (One official distributor in Mexico). Prior to November 3, 2014, it was known as Cablevisión, and other brands under which Televisa offered cable services (such as Cablemás) have since been subsumed into Izzi.
Cablevisión was founded on October 3, 1966. Three years later, it received a provisional permit from the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation to build 124 kilometres (77 mi) of cable and wire the Colonia Roma; by 1974, when it received its complete concession, it had 7,000 subscribers and had extended into additional Mexico City neighborhoods as well as Ciudad Satélite. It also began offering its own programming. Cablevisión pioneered music videos in Mexico; in the 1980s, its channel 18, Con M de Música, rose to fame and became one of the service's flagship offerings.
In 1994, Cablevisión was approved to offer pay TV services by broadcast, over UHF channel 46, which has never been used officially. By the late 1990s, Cablevisión's basic cable package included 40 channels.
In 2002, Cablevisión began offering Internet services under the NetRunner brand, later changed to CableAccess.
2010 saw the addition of high definition channels as well as a business service branded Cablevisión Business. It also rolled out fiber optic packages and TV Everywhere and briefly used the Yoo name as its brand.
On November 1, 2014, the Cablevisión brand was replaced by Izzi, offering triple play services and additionally mobile phone service, as an MVNO operating under the Movistar network. The main difference between the new company, and the old one are the new fees launched by Izzi, offering new options to compete mainly with Telmex (América Móvil).
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