Cox Communications A Cable CLECs Perspective on Competition

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Cox Communications A Cable CLECs Perspective
on Competition

• NARUC Annual Meeting
• Anaheim, November 10, 2007
• Doug Garrett
• Cox Regulatory Affairs

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Cox Communications at a Glance

• Nation's 3rd largest cable telecommunications
  provider
• 6 million total residential and commercial
  customers
• 2 million residential telephone customers
• 22,000 employees
• 8 billion revenue
• Leading provider of video, voiceand high-speed
  Internet
• Recent entry into wireless markets
• Cox Business Services
• Complete suite of communications solutions for
  businesses

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Cox Digital Telephone

• Cox pioneered cable telephone in 1997
• Circuit switched, and now IP-based service
• Carrier class quality and reliability
• 10 JD Powers Associates awards companywide, 6
  in the Western Region
• Bundled Service Integration where we are
  headed
• Phone Tools (Web portal management)
• Voicemails to your email
• Remote DVR control from your cell phone
• Caller-ID on TV

Reliable, affordable communications, at home or
on the go
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Interconnection Still Vital to Competition

• Network interconnection, including collocation at
  technically feasible points
• Transit switching to other providers (indirect
  interconnection)
• Arbitration of Sec. 251 agreements to retain
  reasonable terms
• Direct access to MDU wiring
• OSS interfaces and electronic bonding for CSR,
  E-911 and Directory Listings
• Efficient and timely local number portability
• Redress at state commissions when necessary.

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Forbearance will not end States roles

• Enforcing obligations under Sec. 271
• Helping ensure that commercial negotiations
  result in just and reasonable outcomes
• Maintain vigilance over remaining Sec. 251
  obligations.

What does the future hold with IP-IP
Interconnection? Will terms be fair and
reasonable?