Cox Communications

American cable provider

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2023 Cox Mobile introduces a new CGI sheep named Annie as their marketing character.
February 2023 Cox acquired Logicworks, a New York-headquartered managed cloud services company, for an undisclosed sum.
March 23 2022 The district court denied Cox's motion for relief regarding the copyright infringement lawsuit.
December 27 2021 Cox filed a motion for relief with the district court, alleging concealed evidence from a separate lawsuit against Charter.
May 24 2021 Cox appealed the $1 billion verdict to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
January 12 2021 The court upheld the full $1 billion verdict against Cox after backtracking on the previous suggestion about damage calculations.
2020 Cox Communications reduced upstream internet speeds for entire neighborhoods from 35 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s due to excessive usage by individual users within those neighborhoods.
June 2 2020 The judge ruled that the jury's $1 billion verdict was not excessive but suggested damages should be issued per work, not per copyright.
December 19 2019 A jury ruled against Cox in the lawsuit by 53 record labels and awarded $1 billion in damages.
August 27 2018 Cox and BMG Rights Management reached a confidential settlement before the case was scheduled to be retried.
July 31 2018 A billion-dollar lawsuit was filed against Cox by 53 record labels, including Sony, Universal, and Warner Brothers, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
February 1 2018 The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the $25 million verdict against Cox due to erroneous jury instructions, but upheld the loss of safe harbor protections.
February 14 2017 Cox was ordered to pay an additional $8.5 million in costs related to the BMG copyright infringement lawsuit.
2016 Cox licensed and deployed Comcast's Xfinity X1 platform on its Contour service, with at least 1 million subscribers.
November 7 2016 Cox appealed the BMG copyright infringement verdict to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
August 8 2016 The federal judge reaffirmed the verdict against Cox in the BMG Rights Management copyright infringement case.
December 17 2015 Cox was found guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement by a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in a lawsuit by BMG Rights Management, and ordered to pay $25 million in damages.
2013 Cox discontinues using the 'Digeez' characters in their marketing campaigns.
August 2013 Cox launched Contour, a new television platform featuring recommendations and a user profile system across multiple devices.
September 2011 Cox added Cox Home Security to its product suite.
February 2011 Cox Communications completed its Alternative Energy Project, installing two fuel cell systems at its San Diego and Rancho Santa Margarita headquarters to reduce dependence on the local power grid.
November 19 2010 Cox began offering wireless services in Orange County, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and Hampton Roads, Virginia.

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