ATLANTA – Cox Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable telephony provider, announced today it is now delivering telephone service to customers in Las Vegas. Las Vegas follows on the heels of recent Cox Digital Telephone launches in Central Fla.*, Gulf Coast*, Fla., Middle Georgia and Topeka, Kansas, increasing its total number of telephone markets to 22, or approximately 75 percent of Cox's total footprint.

"The arrival of Cox Digital Telephone in Las Vegas brings greater choice in telephone service to the residents of Las Vegas," said David Pugliese, Cox's vice president of product management and marketing. "On top of that, they can now choose to bundle their video and high-speed Internet services with Cox Digital Telephone for greater cost savings and convenience - both key factors to higher customer satisfaction."

Nationally, satisfaction ratings remain high with Cox Digital Telephone. In fact, 9 out of 10 Cox Digital Telephone customers are very likely to keep Cox's telephone service, according to company research. Cox Digital Telephone is a lifeline service with more than 1.5 million residential customers and 150,000 business locations. As a successful telephone provider for over eight years, Cox has long provided popular calling features and Enhanced 911 (E911) service as a standard feature in all of its telephone markets, enabling the company to deliver a customer's location and call back number automatically to local 911 emergency services personnel.

Cox's telephone markets include Orange County and San Diego, Calif.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Omaha, Neb.; Central Connecticut.; Rhode Island statewide; Central and Gulf Coast, Fla.; Middle Georgia; New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette, La.; Las Vegas, Nevada; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla.; Wichita and Topeka, Kansas; Hampton Roads, Roanoke and Northern Virginia; and West Texas (including five geographically dispersed locations: Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland, Abilene and San Angelo).

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Cox Communications, a Fortune 500 company, is a multi-service broadband communications company with more than 6.6 million total customers, including more than 6.2 million basic cable subscribers (these numbers are an approximation as Cox continues to assess the effect of population loss in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina). The nation's third-largest cable television provider, Cox offers analog cable television under the Cox Cable brand as well as advanced digital video service under the Cox Digital Cable brand. Cox provides an array of other communications and entertainment services, including local and long distance telephone under the Cox Digital Telephone brand; high-speed Internet access under the Cox High Speed Internet brand; and commercial voice and data services via Cox Business Services. Local cable advertising, promotional opportunities and production services are sold under the Cox Media brand. Cox is an investor in programming networks including Discovery Channel. More information about Cox Communications can be accessed on the Internet at www.cox.com/espanol.

* Central Florida includes Gainesville and Ocala, Fla.;
Gulf Coast includes Fort Walton Beach and Pensacola, Fla.

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