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 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.

Blazing the trail of telecommunications competition mapped out by congress in the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, Cox is rapidly evolving 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. This 100-year-old company was founded by James M. Cox, three times the governor of Ohio and the 1920 Democratic nominee for President, with the purchase of the Dayton (OH) Evening News. With revenues today totaling nearly $5 billion, Cox Enterprises has extensive interests in newspapers, television and radio stations, Internet web sites and automobile auctions across the country.

Cox's 16,000 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. Additionally, Cox cable systems have won nine "Customer is Key" awards from the Cable and Telecommunications Marketing Society, recognizing industry leadership in customer service.

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, including Sprint PCS and At Home.