April 30, 2018

HORIZON - Wireless Internet For The Caribbean Region

Horizon Communications is a new wireless internet company that will be starting operations in Bermuda first, and expanding to more of the Caribbean region. They are going to offer services using wireless LTE technology to deliver upwards of 150 mbps internet speeds, VOIP telephone offerings, and high definition TV services. The goal is to provide access to great services to customers who are currently using overpriced and poor quality services.

Horizon estimates that coverage of their services will include ninety five percent of homes on Bermuda by minimal usage of towers. Coverage offshore may be up to fifteen miles offshore. The marketing plan within four or five years is to obtain at least fifteen percent of the market in Bermuda. The goal is to generate total revenues of about forty four million in five years with expenses of around twenty six million.

Horizon will have exclusive rights for the use of its technology in the region. By using more efficient technology, they will be able to provide lower pricing and be more competitive in the market. Horizon uses what is called fixed wireless technology. Fixed means that access is provided using radio waves to a single location. This means that there is no need for expensive phone lines and cables to be installed. Homes using the service will have an antenna installed on the exterior of the home. The 4G LTE equipment that Horizon uses will be able to provide speeds up to 300 Mbps. They want to build the most reliable network possible.

What Is Fixed Wireless ?

Fixed Wireless is an internet industry term to describe the network technology used to connect our customers homes and businesses to a wireless infrastructure that will be owned and operated by Horizon. The term “fixed” is a system that provides broad band internet access to a single location using radio waves, eliminating the need for overhead or underground phone and cable lines. Horizon customer’s will have an exterior mounted antenna to capture Horizon’s service, ensuring a very high quality of connection. Although many customers within 1–2 miles of our towers will not need an external antenna, Horizon will install one to ensure quality.

Technology Deployment

Horizons current 4G LTE-Advanced equipment will be able to deliver speeds of up to 300 Mbps per client utilizing outdoor antennas and fixed wireless client premise equipment. In the future, when faster customer premise equipment becomes available, speeds of up to 1 Gbps per client will be possible. The LTE technology provides a software upgrade option to update our LTE to the latest 4G and pre-5G standards without a major hardware upgrade to the network. Our network will continue to be compatible with legacy 4G LTE equipment, even as we advance towards 5G LTE.

HORIZON will also be using a self healing combination of wireless microwave and fiber technologies to provide high speed, very low latency transport between our communications towers. The wireless technologies include both licensed 2 Gbps point to point links as well as 10 Gbps millimeter microwave (MMW) point to point communications systems to build a highly resilient mesh network topology. Where available, fiber will be used as a 3rd layer fail over backbone. It is our goal to build and maintain the highest reliability wireless network that will surpass the benefits of traditional fiber networks or coax, while maintaining the ability to expand our network without the need to string wire or fiber across miles of terrain.

is using 4G LTE technology to provide Fixed High Speed Internet access, by deploying 4G LTE-Advanced Software Dined Radio (SDR) equipment by way of Carrier Grade front-haul Remote Radio Heads and LTE Base stations.

Customer Speeds

Horizon's primary goal is to build our network for resiliency, stability and capacity.

StartUp And Year One Expenses

Distribution of Token Horizon

Token sales will last for 30 days. Horizon Communications targets to receive up to 40mil USD from our original token contributor (including pre-sales). The HRZN smart contract will stop accepting commitments when it reaches ETH hardcap.

Less than 3% of total tokens for sale will be available during the first 24 hours with a special bonus of 60%.

• Token Name: HRZN

• Minimum Purchase: 0.15 ETH / 150 HRZN

Conclusion

Horizon has a large team of people with extensive business and technical experience. For an ISP, it aims to raise an extremely modest hard cap of only $40m, leaving a lot of potential for upswing in token value. All-in-all, Horizon should definitely be a project you consider given how under-represented the Bahamas are with fast and cheap Internet access.

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