Photos: Cox President Pat Esser Visits First Gigabit Internet Home in Arizona

10/17/2014

PHOENIX, Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Cox Communications senior executives visited the first Arizona home to sign up for gigabit Internet service. Cox Communications President Pat Esser, Cox Communications Senior Vice President and Southwest Region Manager John Wolfe and Cox Enterprises (parent company of Cox Communications) CEO John Dyer met the Atlas family and thanked them for signing up for Cox's new gigabit Internet, the first single family home in the state to embrace the nation's fastest speed.

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Cox executives congratulate the Atlas family as the first home in Arizona to embrace ultra-fast gigabit Internet. (L to R: Pat Esser, John Dyer, Allison Atlas, Alice Atlas, Steve Atlas, Jenna Atlas, John Wolfe)

Executive quote:

"We've committed to rolling out gigabit speeds in all our markets as a broadband choice for all customers. The Atlas family is the first of many homes to embrace this ultra-fast Internet and the 'Gig Life' it brings," said Pat Esser, president, Cox Communications. "Our pace of investment and innovation will only increase to continue to help business and residential customers connect to the things they care about most."

Background:

Later this month, Cox Communications will activate its new ultra-fast gigabit Internet (100 times faster than the average speed today), known as G1GABLAST^SM, to the first single family homes in Arizona, part of its plan to provide gigabit speed options to all its customers nationwide. The Atlas family was the first to sign up for the ultra-fast broadband service and will begin enjoying the new speeds by the end of October.

Cox has been delivering gigabit speeds to business customers for more than 10 years. In April this year, the company announced plans to deliver gigabit Internet speeds to all residential customers, starting with new residential developments this year. In Phoenix, Las Vegas and Omaha, Cox will also begin to deploy gigabit service to existing neighborhoods, starting with Phoenix in October.

In all Cox locations, the company will begin market deployment of gigabit speeds by end of 2016 to give more customers the choice of the ultra-fast service.

G1GABLAST from Cox – offering speeds as fast as 1,000 megabits per second – will deliver more speed, a powerful home network and rich broadband enabled services to customers. The service also includes the latest high-speed Wi-Fi router, one terabyte of cloud storage, Cox Security Suite and Family Protection and 10 email boxes each with 15 gigabytes of storage. G1GABLAST is available in the Phoenix market for $69.99 per month when combined with Cox's most popular service bundles.

Cox has consistently and aggressively increased broadband speeds for years – 1000% over the last 13 years alone – boosted by network investments of $15 billion in the last decade. This year the company has doubled speeds in its most popular tiers (25 Mbps increasing to 50 Mbps; 50 Mbps increasing to 100 Mbps).

About Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet, telephone and home security and automation services over its own nationwide IP network. The third-largest U.S. cable TV company, Cox serves approximately 6 million residences and businesses. Cox Business is a facilities-based provider of voice, video and data solutions for commercial customers, and Cox Media is a full-service provider of national and local cable spot and new media advertising. Cox is known for its pioneering efforts in cable telephone and commercial services, industry-leading customer care and its outstanding workplaces. For eight years, Cox has been recognized as the top operator for women by Women in Cable Telecommunications; Cox has ranked among DiversityInc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity nine times, including the last eight years. More information about Cox Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, is available at www.cox.com and www.coxmedia.com.