Type: Subsidiary of Cox Fax: (404) 843-5975 Enterprises www.cox.com President and CEO: James O. (Jim) Robbins 2004 Employees: 22,350 LOCATION 2004 Revenue ($mil.): $6,425 Atlanta, GA (HQ) KEY COMPETITORS DEPARTMENTS Comcast Accounting DIRECTV Engineering Time Warner Cable Human Resources Sales EMPLOYMENT CONTACT Telemarketing www.cox.com/CoxCareer/ VAULT CAREER LIBRARY 2005 Vault Inc. Vault Guide to the Top Telecom Employers Cox Communications, Inc. THE SCOOP A leader in broadband Atlanta-based Cox Communications is one of the largest broadband communications companies in the U.S., with more than 6.5 million customers across the country. It is the nation's fourth-largest cable TV company, with 855 cable television franchises across the country and also provides digital video and telephone service, local and long-distance phone service and high-speed Internet access. The company also owns a 25 percent interest in the Discovery Channel. Part of a media family Cox Communications is majority-owned (63.4 percent) by Cox Enterprises Inc., which has interests in newspapers, television and radio stations, Internet sites. The parent company brought in $10.8 billion in revenue during 2003. Cox traces its roots back to 1898 when James M. Cox bought the Dayton Evening News. (Cox later served as Ohio's governor for three terms and ran as the Democratic party's presidential candidate in 1920.) The company first entered the cable TV business in 1962. After the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, it expanded into advanced video, voice and data services. In 2002, the company earned the Cablevision/Multichannel News Operator of the Year Award for the third time in the past 10 years and CED Magazine's Operator of the Year honors. Growth areas High-speed Internet and telephone services are seen as the next big growth areas for cable companies. Cox has a good lead in both. In April 2002, the number of the company's high-speed Internet subscribers surpassed the 1 million mark, and by December 2003, the number stood at 1.9 million subs