WEHCO Video to Move Managed Broadband Services and Support to ZCorum

ZCorum and WEHCO Video announced today at the American Cable Association's 18th Annual Summit that the companies have signed a long-term agreement for managed broadband services and support. In accordance with the new agreement, ZCorum will provide WEHCO with hosted email services, data and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provisioning, network monitoring and diagnostics, and 24 x 7 support for WEHCO’s broadband subscribers. WEHCO and ZCorum will be migrating the services over the straightway several weeks from Integrated Broadband Services, WEHCO’s current service provider.

According to Paul Morbeck, WEHCO’s Executive Vice President and COO, his company, which operates cable systems in four states, spent a great deal of time looking at its options previously making the choice to move to ZCorum. “This has been a carefully thought out decision for us. We’ve known about ZCorum for some time, and knew they had a great track record. Now that we’ve been through our due-diligence process, and gotten to know a lot of the people we’ll be working with there, we’re moreover confident that this will be a winning relationship.” Arthur Skinner, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at ZCorum ZCorum, concurred. “I’ve as a matter of fact enjoyed working with Paul and his team. It’s obvious that they believe in developing strong partnerships with their vendors, which fits perfectly with our corporate culture and philosophy.”

In addition to wholesale broadband services and support, pursuant to this agreement the agreement WEHCO will as well gain access to TruVizion, an application developed by ZCorum for diagnosing and troubleshooting cable modem and plant issues. “Were very impressed with TruVizion”, said Morbeck. “It will provide us additional diagnostic capabilities and features that will make the deployment of our technicians in the field more efficient.”

Julie Compann, ZCorum’s President and Chief Operating Officer, was as well glad to see the two companies when all is said and done come at the same time. “I’ve had the pleasure to meet with WEHCO Video several times over the years, and have always been impressed with their operation and staff. I’m very pleased that we’ll now have the possibility to provide broadband services and support for WEHCO and their subscribers.”

WEHCO Video, Inc. is a cable television provider with operations in four southern states: Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. WEHCO offers residential and commercial products over its broadband cable systems and provides service to roughly 75,000 clients who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services, representing in broad outline 145,000 RGUs. The company markets its services separately and as bundled packages of multiple services and features, and through a third-party it provides advertising services to a variety of customers.