Horizon is an innovative company poised to deliver the latest in broadband technology…from phone, Internet and digital cable to security and software development.

The company is rich in history, with its beginnings as far back as 1895 when a group of men in Chillicothe, Ohio, formed the Home Telephone Company to compete with the Central Union Telephone Company, a Bell System licensee. As the basic Bell patents expired, businessmen in many cities, dissatisfied with the slow growth and high charges of the Bell companies, were organizing competing local companies. One of the Home Telephone Company’s organizers, James M. Thomas, went on to become a national leader of the independent, or non-Bell, telephone companies.

Throughout the 100-plus years since its formation, the locally-owned Horizon Chillicothe Telephone has brought high-quality state-of-the-art communications service to its customers. In 1964, the Company built Chillicothe Telcom, the area’s first cable TV system, complete with extensive live local programming such as news, City Council meetings, and high school sports. Because of federal regulations, Telcom had to be sold in 1974. But in 2000, Horizon brought cable TV back to the area using a cable over copper technology called VDSL (very high speed digital subscriber line). High-speed Internet packages also continue to evolve and become faster.

Horizon also offers software development and home and business security