# Cox Communications

> Cox Communications is the largest privately held broadband provider in the United States, wiring roughly 6 million homes and businesses across about 30 states with internet, TV, phone, mobile, and home security. Owned by the Cox family since 1898 and never beholden to Wall Street, it spent decades quietly building fiber while rivals chased quarterly earnings - and in 2025 agreed to merge with Charter in a $34.5 billion deal that will hand its name to the biggest broadband company in America.

- **Founded:** 1962
- **Headquarters:** Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- **Founders:** James M. Cox (Founder of Cox Enterprises (parent), 1898)
- **Team size:** Approximately 19,000 employees (Cox Communications)
- **Products:** Cox Internet, Cox TV (Contour), Cox Voice, Cox Homelife, Cox Mobile
- **Notable:** Largest privately held broadband company in the United States, 34 total J.D. Power awards for customer satisfaction, including 10 consecutive residential-phone wins, Invested a reported $15 billion-plus in its network over the past decade

## Products & services

- **Cox Internet** — Residential broadband delivered over hybrid fiber-coaxial and fiber-to-the-home networks, with multi-gig speed tiers and DOCSIS upgrades.
- **Cox TV (Contour)** — Cable and streaming television service with on-demand, DVR, and voice remote via the Contour platform.
- **Cox Voice** — Digital VoIP home telephone service, repeated J.D. Power residential phone award winner.
- **Cox Homelife** — Home security and automation - cameras, sensors, smart-home controls and professional monitoring.
- **Cox Mobile** — Wireless service offered as an MVNO on Verizon's network, bundled with Cox Internet.
- **Cox Business** — Connectivity, voice, networking and managed services for small businesses through large enterprises; roughly 355,000 commercial customers.
- **RapidScale** — Managed cloud and IT services for enterprises - CloudDesktop, CloudServer, managed SASE and disaster recovery - acquired to expand Cox Business.

## Achievements

- Largest privately held broadband company in the United States
- 34 total J.D. Power awards for customer satisfaction, including 10 consecutive residential-phone wins
- Invested a reported $15 billion-plus in its network over the past decade
- Extended fiber to roughly 60,000 previously unserved or underserved rural households
- Recognized with a national award for digital-equity efforts in 2024
- Connected more than 840,000 people to the internet through low-cost access programs since 2012

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Charter Communications and Cox Enterprises announced a definitive agreement to combine in a deal valuing Cox at $34.5 billion; the merged company will be renamed Cox Communications.
- **2025-09** — The U.S. Department of Justice cleared the Charter-Cox merger.
- **2026-02** — The FCC approved the merger; state approvals in New York and California followed, with close expected in mid-to-late 2026.
- **2025-01** — Cox continued its multi-gig fiber expansion with DOCSIS 4.0 network upgrades slated for the second half of 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cox.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cox-communications
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/coxcomm
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/coxca
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coxcommunications/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/coxcommunications

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