Charter Telephone Reaches Half-Million Customer Mark.500,000 Customers Attracted to Choice, Value and Convenience ST. LOUIS -- Charter Communications Charter Communications NASDAQ: CHTR is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 5.7 million customers in 29 states. It is the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the U.S. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CHTR CHTR Charter CHTR Canadian High Temperature Research ) today announced that it has reached a significant milestone -- 500,000 Charter Telephone[TM] customers. The achievement was accomplished in a relatively short period of time; primarily during the past year when Charter undertook an aggressive rollout of telephone. Charter Telephone has more than quadrupled its number of customers since the beginning of 2006. Today it passes more than 6.8 million homes, and Charter plans to launch phone service in more markets this year. The milestone underscores the growth Charter has been experiencing with its triple-play bundle of services: Charter Digital[TM] Video, Charter High-Speed[TM] and Charter Telephone. "More than seven out of 10 of our Telephone customers subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; all three services," said Ted Schremp, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Charter Telephone. A new customer pays as low as $99.97 for Charter's triple-play bundle. "Charter Telephone gives customers a new and better choice for phone service, and when combined with other Charter services, the great value and convenience is undeniable" said Mr. Schremp. Charter Telephone offers customers an unlimited local and long distance calling plan for the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , which includes 10 features and voicemail at no additional charge. In certain markets, Charter Telephone has successfully launched a plan that includes unlimited calling to Mexico. Charter Telephone service is provisioned over a private, managed network, unlike offerings that run on the public Internet. "We want to thank each of our 500,000 customers who have helped us achieve this milestone," said Mr. Schremp. "They appreciated a new choice in phone service and trust us to keep them connected with a comprehensive range of advanced communications services." Angela McCall of St. Louis signed up for Charter's triple- play bundle of services becoming Charter Telephone's half-millionth telephone customer. The mother of four children, ages 18 to 12, subscribed to all three services because, "it's the best deal in town." Ms. McCall will participate in a celebration ceremony at 3 p.m. today at Charter Communications' corporate headquarters in Town & County, where she will be presented with a free year of the Charter triple-play bundle along with a high definition television, desktop computer, and cordless telephone A cordless telephone or portable telephone is a telephone with a wireless handset which communicates via radio waves with a base station connected to a fixed telephone line (POTS) and can only be operated near (typically within 100 meters or 328 ft from) its base station system. Among Charter's current areas of coverage are Long Beach, San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. , Riverside/Inland Empire, Los Angles, and Glendale, CA; Willimantic and Newtown, CT; Gwinnett County and Athens, GA; Worcester and Chicopee, MA; Kalamazoo, Grand Haven Grand Haven, city (1990 pop. 11,951), seat of Ottawa co., SW Mich., at the mouth of the Grand River; inc. 1867. It is a port on Lake Michigan that ships sand and gravel. Grand Haven manufactures fabricated-metal and paper products. , Holland, Allendale, Traverse City Traverse City, city (1990 pop. 15,155), seat of Grand Traverse co., N Mich., at the head of the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, in a resort and cherry-growing region; inc. 1881. , Bay City and Saginaw, MI; Rochester, MN; St. Louis, MO; Reno, NV; Asheville and Hickory, NC; Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson, SC; Jackson, Blount County, Cleveland and Tri-Cities, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Kennewick and Yakima, WA; and Fond du Lac Fond du Lac (fŏn` də lăk', –jə–), city (1990 pop. 37,757), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis., in a resort region at the south end of Lake Winnebago; inc. 1852. , Madison, Wausau and Eau Claire, WI. About Charter Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband communications company and the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter Digital[R] video entertainment programming, Charter High-Speed[TM] Internet access service, and Charter Telephone[TM] services. Charter Business[TM] similarly provides scalable, tailored and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, video and music entertainment services and business telephone. Charter's advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media[R] brand. More information about Charter can be found at www.charter.com. |
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