Luxembourg satellite services company, SES S.A.’s network of US cable operators is growing, with six more joining the Ultra HD trials, while early joiners are already looking forward to launching their packages across the country. 

SES said that a new wave of Ultra HD trial agreements have been signed with cable operators including Aureon in Iowa, GVTC Communications in Texas, Highlands Cable Group in North Carolina, KPU Telecommunications in Alaska, Service Electric in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and Shrewsbury Community Cable in Massachusetts.  

This means that over fifteen cable operators and multichannel video programming distributors, with a combined audience of over seven million subscribers, are currently testing 4K transmission across SES’s Ultra HD platform. 

“Our SES Ultra HD solution is on course to enable live and linear Ultra HD delivery to homes in half the time it took HD to reach the same television milestone across the U.S.,” noted Steve Corda, vice president of business development in North America for SES.