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5 <br />What We Are doing.. ~ <br />• Providing regular updates regarding changes in (he <br />cable/telecom regulatory landscape <br />• Franchise Renewals <br />• Resolve Technical Signal Quality Problems <br />• Line Extensions <br />- Orange County <br />- Chatham County <br />• Permanent ban on Internet taxes <br />- Cable Mptlem &DSL <br />can will apply Ip an estimatetl 5500 miltlpn (annually) in <br />existing stale and local taxes on the Inlemel "back bone' or <br />buslness~tp~business relaletl expenses in pmvitling DSL <br />• On April 29, the Senate voted (S 150) to impose a <br />temporary four-yearban on taxation of Internet access. <br />The bill must now be combined vdth legislation (HR 49) <br />passed by the House in September that Imposed a <br />permanent ban on Intemet access taxes <br />Potential for Mischief <br />• Extends moratorium to 2008..)urisdicllons with <br />DSL taxes In place as of 2003 would be grand <br />fathered through November 1.2005. <br />• Bans new taxes on any telecommunications <br />services or technology to extent "such services are <br />used to provide Internet access" <br />• Jeopardizes franchise fees, sales taxes and/or <br />rights-of-way users fees <br />• Prohibits excise taxes on telecommunications <br />• Immediate loss of revenue <br />• Damage grows over time as telcos and cable <br />operators operators migrate services to <br />Internet <br />