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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.
Not applicable.
Item 2. Properties.
TWC’s principal physical assets consist of operating plant and equipment, including signal receiving, encoding and
decoding devices, two national centers and distribution systems and equipment at or near subscribers’ homes for each of
TWC’s cable systems. The signal receiving apparatus typically includes a tower, antenna, ancillary electronic equipment and
earth stations for reception of satellite signals. TWC’s distribution system consists primarily of fiber optic and coaxial cables,
lasers, routers, switches and related electronic equipment. TWC’s cable plant and related equipment generally are either
attached to utility poles under pole rental agreements with local public utilities or the distribution cable is buried in
underground ducts or trenches. Customer premise equipment consists principally of set-top boxes and cable modems. The
physical components of cable systems require periodic maintenance.
TWC’s nationwide backbone consists of fiber owned by TWC or circuits leased from third-party vendors, and related
equipment. TWC also operates data centers with equipment that is used to provide services, such as email, news and web
services to TWC’s high-speed data subscribers and to provide services to TWC’s voice customers. In addition, TWC
maintains a network operations center with equipment necessary to monitor and manage the status of TWC’s high-speed data
network.
As of December 31, 2012, TWC leased and owned real property housing national operations centers and data centers
used in its high-speed data services business in Herndon, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina;
Syracuse, New York; Austin, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Orange County, California; New York, New York; Coudersport,
Pennsylvania; Denver, Colorado and Columbus, Ohio, and TWC also leased and owned locations for its corporate offices in
New York, New York and Charlotte, North Carolina as well as numerous business offices, warehouses and properties
housing regional operations throughout the U.S. TWC’s subsidiary, NaviSite, Inc. leases two locations for its corporate office
in Andover, Massachusetts and leases offices and data centers in various cities in the U.S., an office and data centers in the
United Kingdom and an office in India. TWC’s signal reception sites, primarily antenna towers and headends, and
microwave facilities are located on owned and leased parcels of land, and TWC owns or leases space on the towers on which
certain of its equipment is located. TWC owns most of its service vehicles.
TWC believes that its properties, both owned and leased, taken as a whole, are in good operating condition and are
suitable and adequate for its business operations.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings.
The legal proceedings information set forth under “Commitments and Contingencies” in Note 18 to the accompanying
consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
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