October 13, 2008

NexHorizons Chooses Blankom

NexHorizon Communications has chosen the Blankom USA turnkey digital cable solution for its system in Chula Vista, CA. In addition, as part of the agreement between the two companies, NexHorizon will use Blankom as its exclusive digital headend provider for systems it will acquire in the future.

NexHorizon recently announced that it had entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire Phoenix Communications of Michigan. That deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2009. Blankom USA is the U.S. arm of Blankom Antennentechnik GmbH, Germany, a provider of turnkey headend solutions with more than 10,000 installed systems worldwide.

For the Chula Vista system, the headend will convert the system from 60 analog channels to 125 digital channels, with PVR and HD. NexHorizon's subscriber management system is intended to integrate with the billing system and allow provisioning of voice, video and data from one screen, and also providing the ability to remotely activate or deactivate subscribers' service.