KINGSTON, Jamaica – Digicel and two other companies are getting ready to soak up a portion of the subscriber television market, after receiving an islandwide wireless subscriber television licence from the Broadcasting Commission.
The licence was granted to its DigiTV brand – a joint venture between Digicel’s Digital Interactive Services Limited, David Cassanova’s DC Digital and Bernard Henry’s FIMI Wireless.
The service is slated to be launched sometime next year.
The market is dominated by the telecommunications firm, Flow Jamaica, which provides digital cable among its main products. The company only this year invested US$80 million to develop its underwater fibre-optic cable system linking Morant Point to Columbia and Boca Raton in Florida. Since its two years in the market, the company has also managed to acquire the assets of several major cable companies in the Corporate Area, to ensure its dominance. Among the company’s acquisitions was Entertainment Systems, which it bought in February.
Digicel says it will be delivering a host of popular local and international channels through its new service, channels which are now only offered by cable operators.
Digicel already owns a majority share of the mobile phone market in Jamaica since its entry in 2001. Its one million customers account for 65 per cent of the market.
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