By Michael Willner

Some customers, who prefer to continue to watch their analog TV's without a set top box, voiced concern that they would now need one. That is not the case. Customers who do not have a digital set top box will continue to receive our classic cable lineup in analog, allowing their TV's to continue to function.

A lot of our planning today is about freeing up more bandwidth for more advanced services for all of our products. Whether it's more HD, faster broadband speeds or new advanced phone features, bandwidth is needed and analog TV channels take up a huge amount of valuable spectrum.

Therefore, everyone should understand that, although we intend to continue to deliver analog channels for some time to come, the entire television delivery standard in the United States is in a state of transition. Over the long term, we will phase out most analog transmission and will ultimately require digital-to-analog converters for analog TV's to continue to function -- much like the over-the-air broadcast TV transition last June.



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