GigNet & World Cinema partnership to provide Mexican Caribbean in-room hotel entertainment

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Cancun, Mexico & Houston; Oct 10 (Canadian-Media): It was announced today that GigNet, a Digital Infrastructure Company with a 19,200 fiber-kilometer broadband network from Costa Mujeres to Cancun would partner with World Cinema, a leader of in-room entertainment in North America, to provide “over-the-top (OTT)” streaming and casting solutions to hotel properties in the Mexican Caribbean, media reports said.

Mexican Caribbean is one of the largest and fastest growing tourism destinations in the world, with over 160,000 hotel rooms and over 23 million annual airport visitors.

The guests would be able to view, from the comfort of their guest room, through OTT media service, live television programming on their personal devices and stream their content over the Internet allowing hotels to customize their TV menu screen with the services and information for their guests, such as spa, restaurants, gym hours, maps and directions, and featured amenities.

GigNet Partners with World Cinema to Offer In-Room Hotel Entertainment in the Mexican Caribbean https://t.co/LXYzEuWQ38

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GigNet, the Mexican Caribbean brand of GigNet, Inc. is a Digital Infrastructure Company fully licensed telecommunications provider in Mexico. 

In addition to powerful streaming apps, the platform includes hotel brand standard apps, with future apps released at no cost to the property. 

“Our product WorldVue®, a completely customizable platform has the ability to offer the most popular streaming apps...to expand their in-room entertainment experience and improve guest’s satisfaction scores,” said Nick Jones, Executive Vice President of World Cinema. 

“GigNet is the newest broadband network in the Mexican Caribbean designed specifically for hospitality, enterprise and mobile-carrier customers...where a high level of reliability and service availability are essential,” explained Mark Carney, Chief Business Development Officer for GigNet. “Increasingly, these services are being defined by hotel customers, which we will demonstrate in our Cancun office Guest Showcase and on-line.”

“We are setting a new international standard for the Mexican Caribbean with our Internet and WiFi solutions...” said GigNet’s Chairman & CEO Paul A. Moore. “As a Digital Infrastructure Company, we are leveraging our connectivity to do more, including providing OTT content, commercial TVs, device streaming and casting..."