Digicel, Huawei take first 4K, IPTV broadcast to the Caribbean
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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez
| 25 August 2017

Digicel Group and Huawei Technologies claim to have carried the first ever local linear broadcast of Ultra HD TV in the Caribbean, across its fibre-based IPTV service.

Hosted at Digicel’s Kingston headquarters in Jamaica, the experience tested the capabilities of the network’s IPTV service and Huawei’s technology for encoding and content delivery.

“Just imagine that while most people across the world are still getting used to standard HDTV, technology has jumped four steps ahead, and thanks to the power of our fibre network and hybrid TV platform, UHD-TV can be a reality for Jamaica and the region,” said John Suranyi, CEO for Digicel Play, Caribbean and Central America.

“Together with Huawei, we have shown you that we can deliver 10Gbps broadband speeds and now we are leveraging this same technology to demo a whole new world of TV experience to viewers across the region,” added the executive.