46 Facts About Cox Communications

Cox Communications, Inc is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services.

Cox Communications Enterprises expanded into the cable television industry in 1962 by purchasing a number of cable systems in Lewistown, Lock Haven and Tyrone, followed by systems in California, Oregon and Washington.

The subsidiary company, Cox Communications Broadcasting Corporation, was not officially formed until 1964, when it was established as a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

In 1993, Cox Communications began offering telecommunication services to businesses it was the first multiple system cable operator to do so.

In 1995, Cox Communications acquired the Times-Mirror cable properties and as a result became a publicly traded company .

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In 1997, Cox Communications became the first multiple system cable operator to offer phone services to customers following the 1996 Telecom Act.

Two years later in 1999, Cox Communications acquired the cable television assets of Media General in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg, Virginia.

The following year, Cox Communications acquired Multimedia Cablevision with assets in Kansas, Oklahoma and North Carolina.

The Board forbade Cox Communications from raising rates to recover the cost of the fine for a period of 10 years from the actual completion date.

Also in 2004, Cox Communications announced plans to take the company private , expressing frustration in the shareholder's emphasis on short-term goals.

On May 14,2007, Cox announced that they had sold their investment in Discovery Communications for the Travel Channel, related assets, and $1.

Two years later, on November 19,2010, Cox Communications began offering wireless services in Orange County, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and, in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

In February 2011, Cox Communications completed its Alternative Energy Project which included two fuel cell installations at each of the company's San Diego, CA and Rancho Santa Margarita, CA headquarters.

In 2015, Cox Communications licensed Comcast's Xfinity X1 platform ; it was deployed in 2016, maintaining the Contour naming.

Cox Communications stated that at least 1 million subscribers were on the X1-based Contour as of October 2017.

Cox Communications Virginia created the philanthropic Cox Charities to annually provide grants to nonprofits serving youth.

Cox Communications launched Digital Cable on its Orange County system in 1997.

In February 2008, Cox Communications started to implement switched digital video technology in some of their markets.

In late 2014, Cox Communications started notifying customers in their Connecticut market that they would be moving to an All Digital Video platform, requiring a small digital adapter for televisions that were previously connected to an analog only signal.

Cox Communications offers digital video recorder service, provided using Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta, Cisco, or previously Moxi equipment depending on the local market.

Cox Communications offers video on demand service in the majority of its markets under the name On Demand.

Cox Communications offers five levels of high-speed Internet in all of its markets: Starter, Essential, Preferred, Ultimate, and Gigablast.

Cox Communications initially launched high-speed Internet in 1996 in its Orange County infrastructure.

Cox Communications licensed the PowerBoost technology from Comcast in 2007 and offers it on the Preferred, Premier, and Ultimate levels of service.

In fall 2016, Cox Communications first launched its Panoramic WiFi service in San Diego, Orange County and Santa Barbara, and it became available nationwide on June 13,2017.

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Cox Communications offers telephone service in the majority of its services areas.

Cox Communications has won multiple JD Power and Associates awards for its telephone service.

In 2010 Cox Communications started offering a range of Home Automation and Security service to customers in its Tucson, Arizona market as a trial.

Cox Communications Business provides voice, data and video services for more than 260,000 small and regional businesses, including health care providers, K-12 and higher education, financial institutions and federal, state and local government organizations.

In 2013, Cox Communications Business had the third largest business-facing enterprise by revenue, with $1.

Cox Communications Business is expected to launch Managed IP PBX, SIP Trunking and IP Centrex services in 2011, allowing customers to more efficiently route voice traffic over Internet Protocol.

Cox Communications previously offered mobile phone and wireless services in four United States markets including Orange County, California, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Omaha, Nebraska.

Cox Communications Wireless offered a full range of devices manufactured by Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Kyocera, and LG.

Cox Communications Wireless utilized Sprint's voice and 3G networks and had planned to build out their own 4G LTE network.

On May 24,2011, Cox Communications announced it would decommission its plans to build a 3G wireless network, and would instead offer Sprint service to half of its current footprint and operate as a Sprint MVNO by the end of 2011.

On November 15,2011, Cox Communications announced it would halt sales of all its wireless branded products and existing Cox branded wireless operations would be decommissioned by March 30,2012.

Cox Communications eventually retracted its plans to offer wireless services reselling Sprint service as an MVNO.

On January 1,2000, Cox Communications was involved in a retransmission consent dispute with News Corporation, pulling four Fox owned-and-operated stations, after retransmission consent talks between News Corp.

Cox Communications refused to move WVBT to a lower channel number; the channel space was filled in the interim by pay channel HBO Family.

Cox Communications did not offer rebates to its 335,000 subscribers in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Cleveland, Ohio, who lost their Fox stations.

In Las Vegas, where the dispute threatened to black out Super Bowl 50 due to local CBS station KLAS-TV being affected by the dispute, Cox Communications announced on February 3,2016, that it would offer a free preview of the game's Spanish-language broadcaster, ESPN Deportes, over Super Bowl weekend.

The next day, Cox Communications reached a new deal with Nexstar, and the stations were restored.

On December 17,2015, Cox Communications was held responsible for the copyright infringements of its subscribers according to a ruling from a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

On November 7,2016, Cox Communications appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and on February 1,2018, the court overturned the $25 million verdict due to erroneous jury instructions but upheld its loss of safe harbor protections due to not having a meaningful repeat infringer policy.

However, on January 12,2021, the court backtracked on this point because Cox Communications did not raise it during the jury trial, and thus upheld the $1 billion verdict.

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One of Cox Communications's marketing trademarks is a fictional animated "spokesman" character named "Digital Max", used from 2005 through 2008.