Greenville, SC and Charlotte, NC, January 16, 2008 -- Charter Business and Time Warner Cable Business Class announced they will collaborate in the installation of High-Speed, Fiber Optic connections to support the needs of businesses located in each company's service area. This agreement will allow the two companies to seamlessly interconnect their Optical Ethernet services for customers who want to connect distant locations in the North and South Carolina. 

“This agreement represents an alternative for businesses that need to communicate with other offices or businesses located in the Carolinas and neighboring states,” said Jim McGann, Vice President and General Manager, Charter Business.  “While customers have always been able to obtain Fiber Optic Network services from us for their locations within the Charter Business and in the Time Warner Cable service footprint, connecting locations across two footprints meant having to use a mainstream Telco provider. Now, businesses have the convenience of seamless connectivity, one bill and one number to call with Charter and Time Warner. This arrangement will allow us to service markets that range from rural to metropolitan areas.”

Optical Ethernet service, carried over Fiber Optic facilities, represents the latest and most efficient means through which data communications can be carried to support business needs. Cable service providers are capitalizing on their robust existing networks to provide customers with reliable alternatives to telephone company services. 

Both Time Warner Cable and Charter Business offer business customers the benefit of an extensive and reliable network, and are uniquely positioned to meet common business needs. “Our network can serve as a Disaster Recovery option for business customers because our fiber routes are independent of those used by the telephone company,” stated Bo Coughlin, Regional VP for Business Services at Time Warner Cable. Since we own and operate our own fiber network, we are also able to increase the bandwidth allocated to individual customers at a moment's notice – something not always available with the kind of technology offered by Telcos.”

For information about Optical Ethernet services from Time Warner Cable Business Class, contact Albert Blackmon, VP of Marketing at 704-206-2004 and for Charter Business contact: Joe Allen, Director of Technical Services, Charter Business at 864-505-9803.

About Charter Business

Charter Business (http://charter-business.com/) products and services provide scalable, tailored and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, video and music entertainment services and business telephone.

About Charter Communications
Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband communications company and the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including Charter Digital® video entertainment programming, Charter High-Speed® Internet access, and Charter Telephone®. Charter Business™ similarly provides scalable, tailored and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, video and music entertainment services and business telephone. Charter's advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found at www.charter.com.

About Time Warner Cable Business Class
Time Warner Cable Business Class, a division of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), offers a full complement of business communications tools to small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise-sized companies. Its data, voice, video and security solutions are enhanced by award-winning customer service and local support teams.  Time Warner Cable Business Class was founded in 1998, offering high-speed Internet service as Road Runner Business Class. As of year end 2006 Time Warner Cable Business Class served more than 245,000 business customers throughout Time Warner Cable's markets.

Media Contact:
Time Warner Cable
Albert Blackmon, 704-206-2004

Media Contact:
Charter Communications
Anita Lamont, 314-543-2215