HTC Selects Entone for IoT Service Assurance

HTC Selects Entone for IoT Service Assurance

Largest Telecom Co-op Deploys Entone’s Engage™ Platform

Cupertino, California, July 14, 2015  – Entone, Inc., a global leader of Cloud TV and Connected Home solutions, today announced that Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) has selected its Engage™ hosted service assurance platform to support their hybrid IPTV services. Engage is Entone’s multi-device (IoT) service assurance solution that provides premium support and management tools to ensure an optimized consumer experience.

For over 60 years, HTC has been committed to offering advanced telecommunications services residential and business customers throughout the Horry and Georgetown communities. Today, HTC, based in Conway, South Carolina is the largest telephone cooperative in the U.S. with over 50,000 access lines.

“With the proliferation of consumer-purchased IP devices and new challenges due to convergence of networks and IP applications and services, not only is it necessary to deliver a high-quality, multi-screen video experience but reducing truck rolls and support calls are also important in making a profitable business case for Hybrid TV,” commented Scott Everett, Chief Executive of Plant Operations at HTC. “Entone’s Engage platform ensures that we are operating efficiently while also delivering an optimal subscriber experience.”

Entone’s Engage hosted service assurance platform offers a suite of software tools customized for service providers to help them manage and support their hybrid IP services.

“The number of IP devices is exploding,” commented Bill Hughes, Director of Product Management at Entone. “Entone is building on our heritage as an IP device and software pioneer by helping operators simplify the growing complexity of the connected home.”

A demonstration of the Entone Engage solution will be available at The Independent Show in Boston (July 19-21) at the Power & Tel booth #316.

About HTC
HTC, Inc. is the nation’s largest telecommunications cooperative and the 18th largest telephone company. Founded in 1952, HTC celebrates over 60 years of service to the community as a local communications leader. HTC offers local telephone service, long distance, Digital Wireless, Digital Cable, High-Speed Internet Access, and advanced business services such as Remote Recovery Services, Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) design, firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) security. HTC also provides Home Security and Fiber to the Home technology called HTC Bluewave, a state-of-the-art fiber optic network that delivers unparalleled bandwidth for extremely high-speed Internet access and data transmittal, 100 percent digital cable TV video, and traditional voice service through a single delivery point to a customer’s home. 

About Entone
Entone is focused on providing innovative Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions that enrich the operator-consumer relationship. Entone has enabled over 150 of the world’s leading service operators to deliver value-added services that blend the best of traditional TV with the next generation of cloud media and connected home services. 

For more info:

www.entone.com               www.htcinc.net