Unity Media GmbH: New Name in German Cable

Unity Media GmbH: New Name in German Cable

COLOGNE, Germany, August 8/PRNewswire/ -- The parent company of ish and iesy, the recently combined cable network
operators in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, will now be named Unity Media
GmbH.

Parm Sandhu, CEO of Unity Media, commented: "The name Unity Media
reflects both the combination of iesy and ish and also highlights our ability
to deliver a full range of entertainment and multi-media services into the
home - TV, internet and telephony - from one source."

The brands of the two subsidiary companies ish and iesy will remain
unchanged in our communications with customers. The name Unity Media, which
was found internally in an employee competition, will soon be entered in the
appropriate register.

About Unity Media

Unity Media is headquartered in Cologne and is the proprietor of the
Hessian cable network operator iesy and the North Rhine-Westphalian cable
network operator ish. The two companies are the largest providers of cable
television in their respective states. In addition to analogue cable
services, ish and iesy also offer digital TV, high-speed Internet and
telephony. On 30 June 2005, iesy and ish had approximately 5.2 million basic
cable customers, 88,450 digital TV customers, 27,500 high-speed Internet
customers, and 9,800 telephone connections. More information on ish and iesy
can be found at http://www.iesy.de and http://www.ish.de.

Contact for Journalists

Unity Media GmbH
Corporate Communication
Stefan Lennardt / Eva Krüger
Widdersdorfer Strasse 399-401
D-50933 Köln
Tel +49-(0)221/37792-197
presse@unitymedia.de

Source: ish GmbH & Co. KG

Contact for Journalists: Unity Media GmbH, Corporate Communication, Stefan Lennardt / Eva Krüger, Widdersdorfer Strasse 399-401, D-50933 Köln, Tel +49-(0)221/37792-197 presse@unitymedia.de

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