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Flamingo Television Upgrades

Flamingo Television is working hard on the launch of our new products and services and the upgrade of some existing ones.
The goals for this, that were set about a year ago, are to upgrade the quality and stability of our existing infrastructure and products and services, which allows also for new products and services.

We decided to launch our initial new website in English, since it is a language that most people speak and understand, but we might make translations for Papiamentu and Dutch in the future. Via this web-site we are more capable of keeping you as our customer up to date with our project progress as well as give you answers on frequently asked questions such as support questions and information about planned upgrades, roll-outs, maintenance and or possible disruptions of service.

After a long period of hard work, we are now also pleased to announce that some of the new upgrades have been completed and we would like to inform you also about the launch dates of our upcoming services, some of which are in the finalizing stage now.

In order to upgrade Flamingo Televisions Service the following projects were started on which we can elaborate a little:

 

Project

Objective

Current Status

Launch Date

More information

Upgrade bandwidth

Double our customers bandwidth for free

Launched

21/11/2008

Awaiting customer responses

FTV-Analogue

Extend the channels on our basic package and bring back some popular channels that were in (re)-negotiation Phase

Came to agreements regarding (new) contracts and will be reinstated Q1 with the new services

Q1 2009

New channels will be added also

Launch FTV-DigiTV

Digital Premium Channels as an add-on to our analogue channels

New head end and boxes implemented, Succesfull Piloted,
Customer Pilot

Q1 2009

Doing Pilots now with customers

Launch FTV-HiDigiTV

Digital Premium High Definition Channels

Internal Tests Succesfull

Ready to Pilot outside with Sand Dollar in December 2009

Q2 2009

Internal tests succesful, ready for customer pilot

FTV-FttX

Fiber to the home/business Solutions

Rolling out for Rincon and Pilot Project with Sand Dollar Resort

Dec 2008,

Q1 2009

Rolling out currently. Pilot Sand Dollar

FTV-VOIP

Local and International Telephony via Internet Technology

Succesfully tested internally

Awaiting customer Pilot, Will be launched together with FttX

Q2 2009

Ready, awaiting to be tested in Pilot by Sand Dollar and by selected customers

NOS TV Set up a local channel from and for Bonaire Station Launched, working on content and interesting (local) programming Q1 2009 Programming in the making, new programs being recorded and more people are joining in being dedicated to deliver new and interesting content to Bonaire

Mr. Riccardo Vos, General Manager
Mr. Irwin and Mr. Franklin Halley, Managing Directors
Flamingo Television Bonaire B.V.