Cox Communications Introduces Telephone Service for Business Customers in Orange County.

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1999--

Telephone Services Offers Businesses a Value Proposition --

Quality Telephone Service and Award Winning Customer Service

at about a 10-15 Percent Savin service for businesses, offering customers a nerating company (RBOC). Telephone services will be available to businesses from Newport Beach to San Clemente in a phased approach.

The addition of Cox telephone giday.

"We're proud to give local businessesephone customers the same reliability, value, and customer service that has earned the company Inter@ctive Wequality telephone services and excellent customer service," said Boyd Peterson, an analyst with The Yankee Gce

The launch of Cox business telephone use separate companies for their local and long-distance needs. Currently, when a business customer selects er has any questions, only a single call into Cining the best plan for each Cox customer's indt access and high-speed data transmission to vit-capacity, state-of-the-art redundant fiber-optic networks in the world. From an upgrade investment exceeding $200 million, the 20,000-plus fiber miles in the cable netwring-in-ring Synchronous Optical Network (SONETther network reliability, Cox maintains a network operations center (NOC) to conduct surveillance of its ring network 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week.

Customer al customer service as well as a personalized arvice may contact Cox at 949-546-2020 or via e Cox Communications, Inc. (NYSE:COX) will serve approximately 6 million customers nationwide, making it the nation's fifth largest cable company. A full-service providercluding cable television under the Cox Cable bral Cable brand; and commercial voice and data services via Cox Business Services. Cox has been lauded for demonstrating exceptional technological and service excellence,ive Cable Company" for the second consecutive year. Cox is an investor in several telecommunications companies, including Sprint PCS and Excite@Home, as well as numerous programming networks, including Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Outdoor Life and Speedvision. Locally, Cox serves the Orange County Communities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, San Clemente, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Juan Capistrano, and Laguna Niguel, among others. More information about Cox Communications can be accessed on the Internet at www.cox.com.