--Tom Rutledge, President & CEO

Charter, founded in 1993, created a customer service-oriented company that has grown and evolved on many levels over the past two decades. Charter's growth was achieved through acquisitions of cable properties and the subsequent increase of customers in those communities, as well as development and launch of new products and services. Charter became a publicly-traded company on NASDAQ in 1999 and has been a Fortune 500 company since 2001.

A leading broadband communications company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, Charter today employs more than 21,000 and provides services to more than 5.7 million customers in 29 states. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, the company is focused on integrating the highest-quality service with clearly superior entertainment and communications products. Over the years, billions have been invested in the communities Charter serves through infrastructure upgrades to deliver video, high-speed Internet and phone service to homes and businesses.

Quality Services

Unleashing the unique power of our superior two-way, interactive digital cable plant, Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services. Residential services include:

• Advanced Charter TV® video entertainment programming includes hundreds of HD channels, DVR service and a choice of more than 10,000 video-on-demand movies and shows 24/7. Customers can take video throughout the house – and even outside the home – with on the go content on laptops and mobile devices.
• Charter Internet®, with speed 10 times faster than DSL, offers download speeds up to 30 Mbps to simultaneously stream videos, download music, upload photos, and more without sacrificing Internet performance. Charter WiFi assures superior speed ranges to do more on more devices.
• With more than two-million telephone customers, Charter is the ninth largest provider of residential phone service in the nation.

Charter Business® provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, business telephone, video and music entertainment services, and wireless backhaul.

Charter Media® offers targeted, integrated advertising and promotional solutions for advertisers through national cable networks, Internet advertising, mobile marketing and events supported by marketing, research and award-winning creative services.

Our Communities

Because Charter is part of each community we serve, we have always been dedicated to invest in strengthening our communities with financial and human resources. We have developed programs and initiatives that make a difference. In the coming months, we will begin engaging communities to enable some exciting things happen.