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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