1999-080-COX COMMUNICATIONS FRANCHISE AUTHORITY

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Exhibit _2_ FCC Form 394 Date: June 14, 1999 Section IV Technical Qualifications - Corporate Personnel Cox Communications, Inc.'s Corporate Engineering Department consists of 120 people who reside in Atlanta. The Department is organized to provide assistance to our cable systems in all areas of technology including: Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) design, construction, and operation; wireline telephony (business and residential); high speed data services (business and residential); digital TV; and purchasing/materials management. The Corporate Engineering management team consists of seven senior individuals whose combined experience includes 175 years in their respective areas of technological focus as well as 84 years with Cox Communications, Inc. This group of engineers sets the overall strategic technical direction for the cable division plus management of work teams offering specific subject matter expertise in each of the technical disciplines stated above. Reporting to the above group are 17 engineering/operations/materials management professionals who respond to the needs of the operating systems. This group collectively has: 146 years of HFC experience, 74 years of telephony experience, 39 years of data services experience, and 45 years of materials management experience as well as 142 years of service with Cox Communications, Inc. For the past 10 years, we have aggressively upgraded our networks by deploying more than 9,000 route miles of fiber optic cable and installing state of the art amplifier technology. These network upgrades have allowed Cox to make good on the promise of delivery of new services through their broadband infrastructure. Adhering to our present schedule, more than 95% of our system miles (60,000) will offer 550 MHz of bandwidth or greater by the end of the year 2000 and fiber will be deployed down to serving areas averaging approximately 800 homes.