St. John’s Antigua- Television viewers throughout the region will soon be able to see all their favourite programmes with far superior digital clarity, as analog viewing is phased out—a move that will see the end of TV as we know it.
Broadcast industry stakeholders from across the Caribbean are meeting at the Grand Royal Antiguan Beach Resort in a forum aimed at mapping the region’s response to the imminent broadcasting switch.
Minister of Telecommunications, Dr Edmond Mansoor, said Antigua & Barbuda and other Caribbean countries will soon join the United States and the United Kingdom, among others, in the global switchover from analog to digital television.
“The digital switchover is one of the biggest technological changes since coloured TV was introduced more than three decades ago,” Dr Mansoor said in his address to the assembly.
The switch to digital signals will improve viewing quality and free up broadcast space, allowing what the minister called “innovative services” to come into being.
Dr Mansoor added that a fourth generation long-term evolution (4G LTE) mobile network would be available on island as early as next week.
He added that up to two additional network realms are in the works.
The two-day Digital Broadcasting Switchover Caribbean Forum is being held in conjunction with the 43rd annual General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) and will end tomorrow.
The event is supported by the Caribbean Telecommunication Union (CTU), which is mandated by the CARICOM government to address the issue of digital switchover for the Caribbean “as a matter of urgency”.
The workshops throughout the forum are designed to “build capacity on regulatory, funding content and transmission issues for the broadcast planners”.
Delegates will be given the opportunity to discuss real-life cases with experts on broadcast migration and will take back to their respective countries a checklist on how to successfully implement a digital switchover plan.
Lower Prices…???!!! Are you out of your mind? Why do you thing that company sponsored Halcyon Steel, Or was given the ‘gravy’ frequencies that APUA had requested…or the Other ‘ENGLISH’ company got the 50 year monopoly…? To LOWER prices? Antiguans will ALWAYS sit back and be walked upon.
Please google the starbroek Newspaper and find out what ia happening in LINDEN, Guyana.
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No more buffetts for you folks till my internet bills go down and the speed goes up.
4G is nice if you have a device to get it. I’m still waiting for digital TV.
Oh wait I already have it, it’s called the internet, slow and lethargic like the government. When will we get faster speed at lower prices? When?
The fiber cable was landed how many moons ago? Oh look another buffett lunch to discuss the future?
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I agree with you! They need to start lowering prices!
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