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30 US pay-TV providers
testing 4K with SES
W
ith an additional nine TV operators
joining SES’s Ultra HD trials, a
total of 30 US pay-TV providers,
•  Skitter TV, a national IPTV systems
innovator; and
•  South Dakota Networks (SDN), an enabler of
global media business unit. “Momentum
continues to build as SES accelerates the
delivery and commercial availability of Ultra
with a combined audience of more than 10 IPTV for 19 telcos in South Dakota. HD services throughout North America, and
million subscribers, are now testing SES’s Among the 30 operators on SES’s 4K we expect more cable and IPTV providers to
4K content delivery platform across their platform, three have already initiated join the trio of operators who have already
distribution networks. commercial linear Ultra HD services in launched their commercial Ultra HD services
subscriber homes via SES’s end-to-end using our platform.”
The latest wave of pay-TV system operators
to ink Ultra HD trial agreements with SES solution: Marquette-Adams Communications includes: in Wisconsin, Highlands Cable Group in North market with exciting new Ultra HD services
•  Alliance Communications, an Internet, Carolina, and, most recently, EPB Fiber Optics later this year, as a result of our Ultra HD
in Chattanooga, Tennessee. trials with SES,” said Jonathan Bullock, vice
phone and cable TV operator serving
subscribers in South Dakota and Minnesota;
•  Cincinnati Bell, a leading telco in Ohio,
SES’s all-in-one Ultra HD platform
“Hotwire is well positioned to be the first to
president of corporate development and
combines satellite distribution services, government at Hotwire Communications.
reception gear, and the world’s largest 4K Ultra “The SES Ultra HD platform is easy and fast to
•  Douglas County Community Network, an HD channel line-up, featuring Fashion One deploy on our all-fibre network, allowing us to
ultra-high-speed broadband and IPTV 4K, Travelxp 4K, 4KUNIVERSE, NASA TV provide the best 4K channel line-up virtually
provider in the state of Washington; UHD, INSIGHT TV, UHD1, C4K360, Funbox overnight.”
•  Hotwire, a national telecom provider;
•  Midco, a regional provider of triple play UHD, Nature Relaxation 4K and SES’s UHD
Indiana and Kentucky;
services in North Dakota, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kansas;
demonstration channel.
“The turnkey SES Ultra HD platform is
“SES’s Ultra HD solution is tailor-made to
meet our subscribers’ demand for the best
television experience available and our
home to some of the largest and smallest strong desire to be among the first to market
cable and IPTV providers in the region, who with the world’s leading 4K offering,” said
service provider in Wisconsin, Minnesota are leveraging the scalability and reliability Michael Agostinelli, CEO at Skitter. “Skitter
and Illinois; of satellite to differentiate themselves in a now has a clear competitive advantage as we
competitive market with the ultimate television make an exciting leap toward a commercial
service provider operating in Oneida, Illinois experience,” said Steve Corda, vice president launch of Ultra HD services in our customers’
and Rio, Illinois; of business development at SES Video, SES’s homes.”
•  Midwest Video Solutions (MVS), a multi-
•  Oneida Telephone Exchange, a triple play
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