(SAN DIEGO) December, 2008 – Cox Communications’ residential customers continue to have the fastest high speed Internet speeds in San Diego County! For the second time this year, Cox Communications has pumped up its residential Premier tier and Small Office/Home Office High Speed Internet speeds to 20Mbps down/1.5Mbps up. In July, speeds for residential and Small Office/Home Office high speed Internet users were bumped to15Mpbs down/1.5Mbps up.

Cox Business’ Premier Small Office, Home Office High Speed Internet is a special business tier designed for home office users who need both fast download and upload speeds. It also offers an available static IP address and other business-class features.

Cox Premier residential customers and Cox Business’ Small Office/Home Office customers also can receive even faster speeds -  25Mbps down/2Mbps up  -  with PowerBoost®, cutting-edge technology that gives customers an automatic burst of speed when they need it most

PowerBoost® automatically engages when large files such as music, movies, videos and photos are being downloaded. PowerBoost® technology is a free service for residential Preferred and Premier Cox High Speed Internet customers and Small Office/Home Office Cox Business customers.

Cox Communications received the highest ranking in the Western region among Internet service providers in the J.D. Power and Associates' 2008 Internet Service Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction StudySM. The study measured customer satisfaction among 12 providers in the West. 

Cox Business also ranked highest in satisfying small/midsize and large enterprise business customers with telecommunications data services in the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Major Provider Business Telecommunications StudySM. The study measured customer satisfaction with providers of telecommunications data services, such as cable modem, DSL, T1, T3/DS3, Ethernet and frame relay in the following categories: performance and reliability; sales representatives/account executives; billing; cost of service; offerings and promotions; and customer service.


About Cox Communications
Operating in San Diego County since 1961, Cox Communications is a full-service telecommunications provider of voice, video and data services including digital and high definition cable television, high speed Internet, local and long distance telephone service, digital video recorder service, On Demand programming, commercial voice and data services via Cox Business Services, and advertising and promotional opportunities through San Diego Interconnect Operated by Cox Media. Cox Communications also owns and operates the Travel Channel and award-winning Channel 4 San Diego, television home of the San Diego Padres and award-winning local programming. Cox Communications serves 537,000 basic cable customers and 2,300 employees countywide. For more information, visit www.coxsandiego.com.

About Cox Business
Cox Business provides voice, data and video services for nearly 250,000 small and regional businesses, including school systems, health care providers and financial institutions. Cox Business is the fourth largest Ethernet service providers in the U.S., according to Vertical Systems Group, and the only multiple system cable operator ranked in the top tier.  Cox Business also leads all providers of small and midsize business data solutions in customer           satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Major Provider Business Telecommunications StudySM.  Cox is currently the seventh largest voice service provider in the U.S., and provides more than 600,000 phone lines to business customers.www.coxbusiness.com.