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INFORMATION

With one of the highest-capacity and
most reliable broadband delivery networks in the world, Atlanta-based
Cox Communications, Inc. is among the nation's largest broadband communications
companies, serving 6.2 million customers in more than 20 states.
Cox has been building high quality communications networks since it
first entered the cable television business in 1962, and delivering cable
television programming remains our core business today. Our advanced
broadband network of coaxial and fiber optic cables has become the conduit
through which we are delivering other advanced communications services
including digital video, local and long-distance telephone and high-speed
Internet access services. We are also developing other powerful offerings,
including video-on-demand and interactive television services, that will
be delivered to customers over our broadband network.
Blazing the trail of telecommunications competition mapped out by congress
in the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, Cox has evolved into a full-service
provider of advanced video, voice and data services for homes and businesses.
In fact, our Orange County, Calif., operation made history in 1997, becoming
the nation's first cable system to deliver all of these services via
a single broadband network.
Our entrepreneurial spirit has its roots in our majority investor, Cox
Enterprises, Inc., which traces its history back to 1898. That year,
James M. Cox, who would later serve three terms as governor of Ohio and
would run for President in 1920 as the Democratic nominee, purchased
his first newspaper, the Dayton (OH) Evening News. More than a century
later, the company Gov. Cox built has annual revenues approaching $8
billion, and has extensive interests in newspapers, television and radio
stations, Internet web sites and automobile auctions. Cox Enterprises
is the majority shareholder of Cox Communications.
Cox Communications' more than 20,000 employees are widely regarded as
among the best in the cable industry, having earned the company extensive
recognition as the leader in customer care. Cox has been named Cablevision
Magazine's Operator of the Year twice in five years and has won numerous
awards for excellent customer care.
Cox is deeply committed to the communities it serves with education
being the cornerstone of the company's community outreach efforts. Through
Cox Cable in the Classroom, we have long provided cable service free
to every elementary and secondary school in our service areas, and have
begun providing cable modems to a number of schools in areas wired for
high-speed Internet access through our Cox Line to Learning program.
We have also established Cox Model Technology Schools in many of our
communities where the latest advancements in technology are put to the
test as teaching tools.
In addition to providing advanced
communications services, Cox is an investor in several leading programming
networks, including Discovery Channel, and is a stake holder in a variety
of technology companies, such as Sprint PCS.
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