After this weekend, Orange and Movistar football contracted subscribers will need to download the Dazn app if they want to enjoy all matches via mobile devices after several months in which the two operators implemented OTT channels after the initial failures of this in the early days due to overload on their servers.

Dazn’s idea was to remove this patch in early October, but the operators insisted that they couldn’t be 100% sure the problems wouldn’t reoccur. For this reason, OTT, which has the rights to participate in the national league competition, has been postponed. sinus dies Formula for the start of the season.

That is, on the day when RealMadrid you must visit San Mames to get Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona hosts Getafe and Atletico Madrid does the same with Valladolid, OTT will be put to the test after last summer’s debacle.

It should be remembered that Dazn had to work against the current by offering an external link so that users with problems could watch football without any problems. From now on, unlike decoders, Orange and Telefónica platforms do not include channels Dazn La Liga and those customers who want to enjoy the matches broadcast by Dazn must go to the OTT platform to follow them.

Sources consulted told this newspaper that after what happened, they expect Dazn to fulfill their contract and Orange and Movistar customers will not have problems like those experienced in August last year. “We want our customers not to have the same problems they had in the first two days, and integrating the Dazn LaLiga channel into our tools would be enough to prevent previous episodes from happening again.”

Meanwhile, sports specialist OTT claims that the terms to be reinstated were those that were agreed upon at the beginning and that they only stick to what was signed into the contracts.

La Liga is on the lookout

Orange, for its part, according to this newspaper, sat down with Dazn to compensate for the failures in the OTT system last August. In this sense, industry sources remind that “Dazn’s duty is to offer its customers end-to-end services without incidents, as is the case with other OTT platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.”

All these months, La Liga has been in constant contact with Dazn so that users who watch matches on mobile devices can enjoy matches without any problems, and expressed their dissatisfaction with the failures that occurred.

And the fact is that, according to Orange and Movistar sources, football is increasingly being watched on mobile devices. “During August, Christmas or the various bridges that exist in our country, the consumption of La Liga or European competitions through mobile phones, tablets or laptops is high, so we ask that our customers have no connection problems. this negatively affects our customer experience,” they emphasize.