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GTA TeleGuam, CSI Digital, and Avail Media Team to Deliver 100%
Digital TV to Guam Viewers
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GTA TeleGuam
April 21, 2008
First-Ever High Definition Television on the Island of Guam
Tamuning, Guam -- Today,
executives at GTA TeleGuam are gathering around a crisp video
picture gleaming off of a new, high definition television set. After
months of planning and hard work, the team's wait for the first-ever
HD signal on the island of Guam -- delivered in all-digital, IP
format -- is now over. HD has made it to Guam. |
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GTA reached out to CSI Digital in 2007 as a way to deliver
all-digital IPTV services to its subscribers. All-digital IPTV would
allow GTA to deliver superior quality television services and be
fully competitive with the incumbent cable company. CSI Digital has
extensive experience in IPTV delivery, having already initiated IPTV
services in seven locations nationwide. CSI Digital's partner in the
deployment is Avail Media. Avail Media is an innovator in IPTV
linear and VOD content aggregation and has worked extensively with
CSI Digital to ensure high-quality television service delivery to
operators over multiple broadband network types and configurations.
Dan Moffat, CEO for GTA, explained, "Our first priority was to
deliver a high-quality television service to our island subscribers
at an attractive price point. We looked for a service provider that
could bring us a robust, all-digital channel lineup that included
HDTV and VOD, and make it work with our network and geography. We
chose the team of CSI Digital and Avail Media because these
companies understood our unique challenges, have a proven track
record of commercial deployments, and could keep up with the IPTV
industry, which is evolving rapidly."
"GTA's commitment to its subscribers is remarkable. GTA has had
several end-users tell them they wanted a high-quality television
service that offered more than the local cable company. That meant a
robust channel lineup, HD, VOD, and other advanced services. Since
that's what we have done extensively with Avail Media, we knew we
could make this work for GTA," said Lu Bolden, Executive Vice
President of CSI Digital.
GTA expects commercial roll-out of its digital IPTV service by June
2008.
About GTA TeleGuam LLC
GTA TELEGUAM is an innovative, full-service communications company
dedicated to enhancing the lifestyles, productivity, and future of
Guam's residents, businesses, and government agencies. GTA has been
serving Guam for more than 40 years and has invested $30 million
over the last two years on network infrastructure and back-office
systems, with an additional $70 million planned over the next three
years. This investment demonstrates GTA's commitment to building and
maintaining a world-class communications infrastructure for Guam.
For more information, please visit www.gta.net.
About CSI Digital
CSI Digital wholesales aggregated content and programming that
enables providers to deliver IPTV, voice, and data services to their
retail customers. A "new-to-market" company or existing provider can
acquire CSI's turnkey, pre-formatted, digital content packages
without the prohibitive equipment and support costs typical of a
traditional deployment. CSI Digital's customers include Independent
Telephone companies, cable companies, ISPs, and others interested in
delivering digital content services to the marketplace. For more
information, please visit www.csidigital.net.
About Avail Media
Founded in early 2007, Avail Media is the emerging leader in
providing managed content aggregation services through a
fully-integrated, head-end infrastructure for the profitable
deployment of IP video. Avail Media is the only company today to
deliver to its aggregator customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV
and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail Media solution
includes a full lineup of live television programming with hundreds
of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated,
encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added
services. For more information, please visit www.availmedia.com. |
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