Cablevision Now Offering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Up to 12 Lines of its Award-Winning Optimum Voice(R) Phone Service

Cablevision Now Offering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Up to 12 Lines of its Award-Winning Optimum Voice(R) Phone Service

Expanded Multi-Line Voice Offering Provides Reliable, Feature-Rich Phone Service to Business Customers at an Unbeatable Value

BETHPAGE, N.Y., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE:CVC) today announced that it is now offering small and medium-sized business customers across its entire service area up to 12 lines of its award-winning Optimum Voice phone service. Each line features flat-rate, unlimited local and long-distance calling and advanced calling features like Caller ID, call waiting and enhanced voicemail, at no additional charge.

"Cablevision is pleased to offer the hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses passed by our fiber optic network the option of up to 12 lines of the market's best phone service -- Optimum Voice," said Joseph Varello, Cablevision's vice president for digital voice and small business product marketing. "With unlimited calling, advanced features and an unbeatable flat-rate value price, Optimum Voice is the phone service of choice for an expanding array of area businesses."

"Coupled with Optimum Online Boost with Static IP, 12 lines of Optimum Voice for business allowed our company to meet our growing telecommunications needs by deploying a reliable, feature-rich telecom solution that will save us thousands of dollars each year," said Chris Clifford, President of Cliffco Mortgage Bankers in Westbury, New York. "We looked at all of the available options, and at the end of the day there was nothing that came close to Optimum Voice in delivering the reliability, features and price we need from our phone service."

In a 2007 PC Magazine readers' survey, Optimum Voice was rated #1 for sound quality, reliability and overall in the VoIP category. In the same survey, Optimum Online was rated #1 for speed, reliability and overall in the cable category. Optimum Voice for Business phone service includes advanced features like 24/7 technical support and 14 calling features including enhanced voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, call hunting, caller ID blocking (*67), anonymous call-blocking, call return (*69), three-way calling and call forwarding, directory assistance (411), VIP ringing, find me, caller ID on call waiting and busy redial -- all at no additional cost.

This enhancement of Optimum Voice for Business continues the expansion of Cablevision's business class services which also includes Optimum Online and Optimum Online Boost with Static IP Internet addresses.

Optimum Online Boost with Static IP offers speeds of up to 30 megabits-per-second (Mbps) downstream and up to 5 Mbps upstream and is a critical component of Internet connectivity for many businesses, because it makes it possible to host applications and services that can be accessed from remote locations -- like e-mail servers or e-commerce capabilities -- through the same customer-specific IP address.

In addition to lightning fast speeds, Optimum Online Boost provides users with a suite of advanced features and Internet configurations needed to build and maintain a commercial Web site, including easy to use SiteBuilder tools requiring no HTML skills, domain name registration, up to 15 personalized e-mail addresses, expanded e-mail storage and more. For more information on Static IP and Optimum Online Boost, visit: http://www.optimum.com/business/index.jsp

The Optimum Double Play for Business includes Optimum Online and Optimum Voice, each for $29.95 per month for one year. Optimum Online Boost with static IP is available for an additional $24.90 per month. For customers with four or more lines each additional Optimum Voice for Business line is available for $29.95 per line.

About Cablevision

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC) is one of the nation's leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve more than 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company's advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO: Interactive Optimum(R) digital television, Optimum Online(R) high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice(R) digital voice-over-cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services. Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates several successful programming businesses, including AMC, IFC, WE tv and other national and regional networks. In addition to its telecommunications and programming businesses, Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall, and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.

Source: Cablevision Systems Corp.

CONTACT: Patrick MacElroy for Cablevision Systems Corp.,
+1-516-803-1249

Web site:

http://www.cablevision.com/
http://www.optimum.com/business/index.jsp

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