Delaware
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43-1857213
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(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
organization)
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification
Number)
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PART
I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Page
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Item
1. Financial
Statements - Charter Communications, Inc. and Subsidiaries
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Condensed
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March
31, 2007
|
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and
December 31, 2006
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4
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Condensed
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three
|
|
months
ended March
31, 2007 and
2006
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5
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Condensed
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the
|
|
three
months ended March
31, 2007 and 2006
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6
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Notes
to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
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7
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Item
2. Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
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18
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Item
3. Quantitative
and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
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28
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Item
4. Controls
and Procedures
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29
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PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION
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Item
1. Legal
Proceedings
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31
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Item
1A. Risk Factors
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31
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Item
6. Exhibits
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35
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SIGNATURES
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S-1
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
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E-1
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·
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the
availability, in general, of funds to meet interest payment obligations
under our debt and to fund our operations and necessary capital
expenditures, either through cash flows from operating activities,
further
borrowings or other sources and, in particular, our ability to
be able to
provide under the applicable debt instruments such funds (by dividend,
investment or otherwise) to the applicable obligor of such
debt;
|
·
|
our
ability to comply with all covenants in our indentures and credit
facilities, any violation of which could trigger a default of our
other
obligations under cross-default provisions;
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·
|
our
ability to pay or refinance debt prior to or when it becomes due
and/or
refinance that debt through new issuances, exchange offers or otherwise,
including restructuring our balance sheet and leverage
position;
|
·
|
competition
from other distributors, including incumbent telephone companies,
direct
broadcast satellite operators, wireless broadband providers and
DSL
providers;
|
·
|
difficulties
in introducing and operating our telephone services, such as our
ability
to adequately meet customer expectations for the reliability of
voice
services, and our ability to adequately meet demand for installations
and
customer service;
|
·
|
our
ability to sustain and grow revenues and cash flows from operating
activities by offering video, high-speed Internet, telephone and
other
services, and to maintain and grow our customer base, particularly
in the
face of increasingly aggressive
competition;
|
·
|
our
ability to obtain programming at reasonable prices or to adequately
raise
prices to offset the effects of higher programming costs;
|
·
|
general
business conditions, economic uncertainty or slowdown;
and
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·
|
the
effects of governmental regulation, including but not limited to
local
franchise authorities, on our business.
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March
31,
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December
31,
|
||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||
(Unaudited)
|
|||||||
ASSETS
|
|||||||
CURRENT
ASSETS:
|
|||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, including restricted cash of $110 and $0,
respectively
|
$
|
205
|
$
|
60
|
|||
Accounts
receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts of
|
|||||||
$16
and $16, respectively
|
158
|
195
|
|||||
Prepaid
expenses and other current assets
|
86
|
84
|
|||||
Total
current assets
|
449
|
339
|
|||||
INVESTMENT
IN CABLE PROPERTIES:
|
|||||||
Property,
plant and equipment, net of accumulated
|
|||||||
depreciation
of $7,968 and $7,644, respectively
|
5,178
|
5,217
|
|||||
Franchises,
net
|
9,218
|
9,223
|
|||||
Total
investment in cable properties, net
|
14,396
|
14,440
|
|||||
OTHER
NONCURRENT ASSETS
|
332
|
321
|
|||||
Total
assets
|
$
|
15,177
|
$
|
15,100
|
|||
LIABILITIES
AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
|
|||||||
CURRENT
LIABILITIES:
|
|||||||
Accounts
payable and accrued expenses
|
$
|
1,464
|
$
|
1,298
|
|||
Total
current liabilities
|
1,464
|
1,298
|
|||||
LONG-TERM
DEBT
|
19,276
|
19,062
|
|||||
NOTE
PAYABLE - RELATED PARTY
|
59
|
57
|
|||||
DEFERRED
MANAGEMENT FEES - RELATED PARTY
|
14
|
14
|
|||||
OTHER
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
|
709
|
692
|
|||||
MINORITY
INTEREST
|
194
|
192
|
|||||
PREFERRED
STOCK - REDEEMABLE; $.001 par value; 1 million
|
|||||||
shares
authorized; 36,713 shares issued and outstanding
|
4
|
4
|
|||||
SHAREHOLDERS’
DEFICIT:
|
|||||||
Class
A Common stock; $.001 par value; 1.75 billion shares
authorized;
|
|||||||
408,600,085
and 407,994,585 shares issued and outstanding,
respectively
|
--
|
--
|
|||||
Class
B Common stock; $.001 par value; 750 million
|
|||||||
shares
authorized; 50,000 shares issued and outstanding
|
--
|
--
|
|||||
Preferred
stock; $.001 par value; 250 million shares
|
|||||||
authorized;
no non-redeemable shares issued and outstanding
|
--
|
--
|
|||||
Additional
paid-in capital
|
5,320
|
5,313
|
|||||
Accumulated
deficit
|
(11,861
|
)
|
(11,536
|
)
|
|||
Accumulated
other comprehensive income
|
(2
|
)
|
4
|
||||
Total
shareholders’ deficit
|
(6,543
|
)
|
(6,219
|
)
|
|||
Total
liabilities and shareholders’ deficit
|
$
|
15,177
|
$
|
15,100
|
Three
Months Ended March 31,
|
|||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||
REVENUES
|
$
|
1,425
|
$
|
1,320
|
|||
COSTS
AND EXPENSES:
|
|||||||
Operating
(excluding depreciation and amortization)
|
631
|
604
|
|||||
Selling,
general and administrative
|
303
|
272
|
|||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
331
|
350
|
|||||
Asset
impairment charges
|
--
|
99
|
|||||
Other
operating expenses, net
|
4
|
3
|
|||||
1,269
|
1,328
|
||||||
Operating
income (loss) from continuing operations
|
156
|
(8
|
)
|
||||
OTHER
INCOME AND (EXPENSES):
|
|||||||
Interest
expense, net
|
(464
|
)
|
(468
|
)
|
|||
Other
income (expense), net
|
(4
|
)
|
11
|
||||
(468
|
)
|
(457
|
)
|
||||
Loss
from continuing operations before income taxes
|
(312
|
)
|
(465
|
)
|
|||
INCOME
TAX EXPENSE
|
(69
|
)
|
(8
|
)
|
|||
Loss
from continuing operations
|
(381
|
)
|
(473
|
)
|
|||
INCOME
FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS, NET OF TAX
|
--
|
14
|
|||||
Net
loss
|
$
|
(381
|
)
|
$
|
(459
|
)
|
|
LOSS
PER COMMON SHARE, BASIC AND DILUTED:
|
|||||||
Loss
from continuing operations
|
$
|
(1.04
|
)
|
$
|
(1.49
|
)
|
|
Net
loss
|
$
|
(1.04
|
)
|
$
|
(1.45
|
)
|
|
Weighted
average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted
|
366,120,096
|
317,413,472
|
Three
Months Ended March 31,
|
|||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||
CASH
FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
|
|||||||
Net
loss
|
$
|
(381
|
)
|
$
|
(459
|
)
|
|
Adjustments
to reconcile net loss to net cash flows from operating
activities:
|
|||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
331
|
358
|
|||||
Asset
impairment charges
|
--
|
99
|
|||||
Noncash
interest expense
|
11
|
52
|
|||||
Deferred
income taxes
|
68
|
7
|
|||||
Other,
net
|
12
|
(7
|
)
|
||||
Changes
in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions
and
dispositions:
|
|||||||
Accounts
receivable
|
37
|
61
|
|||||
Prepaid
expenses and other assets
|
(4
|
)
|
3
|
||||
Accounts
payable, accrued expenses and other
|
192
|
95
|
|||||
Net
cash flows from operating activities
|
266
|
209
|
|||||
CASH
FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
|
|||||||
Purchases
of property, plant and equipment
|
(298
|
)
|
(241
|
)
|
|||
Change
in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures
|
(32
|
)
|
(7
|
)
|
|||
Purchase
of cable system
|
--
|
(42
|
)
|
||||
Other,
net
|
9
|
14
|
|||||
Net
cash flows from investing activities
|
(321
|
)
|
(276
|
)
|
|||
CASH
FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
|
|||||||
Borrowings
of long-term debt
|
911
|
415
|
|||||
Repayments
of long-term debt
|
(691
|
)
|
(759
|
)
|
|||
Proceeds
from issuance of debt
|
--
|
440
|
|||||
Payments
for debt issuance costs
|
(20
|
)
|
(10
|
)
|
|||
Net
cash flows from financing activities
|
200
|
86
|
|||||
NET
INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
|
145
|
19
|
|||||
CASH
AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period
|
60
|
21
|
|||||
CASH
AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period
|
$
|
205
|
$
|
40
|
|||
CASH
PAID FOR INTEREST
|
$
|
304
|
$
|
240
|
|||
NONCASH
TRANSACTIONS:
|
|||||||
Issuance
of debt by Charter Communications Operating, LLC
|
$
|
--
|
$
|
37
|
|||
Retirement
of Renaissance Media Group LLC debt
|
$
|
--
|
$
|
(37
|
)
|
||
Cumulative
adjustment to Accumulated Deficit for the adoption of FIN
48
|
$
|
56
|
$
|
--
|
Three
Months Ended
March
31, 2006
|
||||
Revenues
|
$
|
54
|
||
Income
before income taxes
|
$
|
15
|
||
Income
tax expense
|
$
|
(1
|
)
|
|
Net
income
|
$
|
14
|
||
Earnings
per common share, basic and diluted
|
$
|
0.05
|
March
31, 2007
|
December 31,
2006
|
||||||||||||||||||
Gross
Carrying
Amount
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
Net
Carrying
Amount
|
Gross
Carrying
Amount
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
Net
Carrying
Amount
|
||||||||||||||
Indefinite-lived
intangible assets:
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Franchises
with indefinite lives
|
$
|
9,203
|
$
|
--
|
$
|
9,203
|
$
|
9,207
|
$
|
--
|
$
|
9,207
|
|||||||
Goodwill
|
61
|
--
|
61
|
61
|
--
|
61
|
|||||||||||||
$
|
9,264
|
$
|
--
|
$
|
9,264
|
$
|
9,268
|
$
|
--
|
$
|
9,268
|
||||||||
Finite-lived
intangible assets:
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Franchises
with finite lives
|
$
|
23
|
$
|
8
|
$
|
15
|
$
|
23
|
$
|
7
|
$
|
16
|
March
31,
2007
|
December 31,
2006
|
||||||
Accounts
payable - trade
|
$
|
155
|
$
|
92
|
|||
Accrued
capital expenditures
|
65
|
97
|
|||||
Accrued
expenses:
|
|||||||
Interest
|
559
|
410
|
|||||
Programming
costs
|
311
|
268
|
|||||
Franchise-related
fees
|
43
|
68
|
|||||
Compensation
|
87
|
110
|
|||||
Other
|
244
|
253
|
|||||
$
|
1,464
|
$
|
1,298
|
March
31, 2007
|
December
31, 2006
|
||||||||||||
Principal
Amount
|
Accreted
Value
|
Principal
Amount
|
Accreted
Value
|
||||||||||
Long-Term
Debt
|
|||||||||||||
Charter
Communications, Inc.:
|
|||||||||||||
5.875%
convertible senior notes due November 16, 2009
|
$ |
413
|
$ |
410
|
$ |
413
|
$ |
408
|
|||||
Charter
Communications Holdings, LLC:
|
|||||||||||||
8.250%
senior notes due April 1, 2007
|
105
|
105
|
105
|
105
|
|||||||||
8.625%
senior notes due April 1, 2009
|
187
|
187
|
187
|
187
|
|||||||||
10.000%
senior notes due April 1, 2009
|
105
|
105
|
105
|
105
|
|||||||||
10.750%
senior notes due October 1, 2009
|
71
|
71
|
71
|
71
|
|||||||||
9.625%
senior notes due November 15, 2009
|
52
|
52
|
52
|
52
|
|||||||||
10.250%
senior notes due January 15, 2010
|
32
|
32
|
32
|
32
|
|||||||||
11.750%
senior discount notes due January 15, 2010
|
21
|
21
|
21
|
21
|
|||||||||
11.125%
senior discount notes due January 15, 2011
|
52
|
52
|
52
|
52
|
|||||||||
13.500%
senior discount notes due January 15, 2011
|
62
|
62
|
62
|
62
|
|||||||||
9.920%
senior discount notes due April 1, 2011
|
63
|
63
|
63
|
63
|
|||||||||
10.000%
senior notes due May 15, 2011
|
71
|
71
|
71
|
71
|
|||||||||
11.750%
senior discount notes due May 15, 2011
|
55
|
55
|
55
|
55
|
|||||||||
12.125%
senior discount notes due January 15, 2012
|
91
|
91
|
91
|
91
|
|||||||||
CCH
I Holdings, LLC:
|
11.125%
senior notes due January 15, 2014
|
151
|
151
|
151
|
151
|
|||||||||
13.500%
senior discount notes due January 15, 2014
|
581
|
581
|
581
|
581
|
|||||||||
9.920%
senior discount notes due April 1, 2014
|
471
|
471
|
471
|
471
|
|||||||||
10.000%
senior notes due May 15, 2014
|
299
|
299
|
299
|
299
|
|||||||||
11.750%
senior discount notes due May 15, 2014
|
815
|
815
|
815
|
815
|
|||||||||
12.125%
senior discount notes due January 15, 2015
|
217
|
217
|
217
|
216
|
|||||||||
CCH
I, LLC:
|
|||||||||||||
11.000%
senior notes due October 1, 2015
|
3,987
|
4,089
|
3,987
|
4,092
|
|||||||||
CCH
II, LLC:
|
|||||||||||||
10.250%
senior notes due September 15, 2010
|
2,198
|
2,190
|
2,198
|
2,190
|
|||||||||
10.250%
senior notes due October 1, 2013
|
250
|
261
|
250
|
262
|
|||||||||
CCO
Holdings, LLC:
|
|||||||||||||
Senior
floating notes due December 15, 2010
|
550
|
550
|
550
|
550
|
|||||||||
8¾%
senior notes due November 15, 2013
|
800
|
795
|
800
|
795
|
|||||||||
Charter
Communications Operating, LLC:
|
|||||||||||||
8.000%
senior second lien notes due April 30, 2012
|
1,100
|
1,100
|
1,100
|
1,100
|
|||||||||
8
3/8% senior second lien notes due April 30, 2014
|
770
|
770
|
770
|
770
|
|||||||||
Credit
Facilities
|
5,610
|
5,610
|
5,395
|
5,395
|
|||||||||
$
|
19,179
|
$
|
19,276
|
$
|
18,964
|
$
|
19,062
|
Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
|
|||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||
Loss
on sale of assets, net
|
$
|
3
|
$
|
--
|
|||
Special
charges, net
|
1
|
3
|
|||||
$
|
4
|
$
|
3
|
Three
Months
Ended
March 31,
|
|||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||
Gain
(loss) on derivative instruments and
hedging
activities, net
|
$
|
(1
|
)
|
$
|
8
|
||
Loss
on extinguishment of debt
|
(1
|
)
|
--
|
||||
Minority
interest
|
(2
|
)
|
--
|
||||
Loss
on investments
|
--
|
(1
|
)
|
||||
Other,
net
|
--
|
4
|
|||||
$
|
(4
|
)
|
$
|
11
|
Approximate
as of
|
|||||||
March
31,
|
March
31,
|
||||||
2007
(a)
|
2006
(a)
|
||||||
Video
Cable Services:
|
|||||||
Analog
Video:
|
|||||||
Residential
(non-bulk) analog video customers (b)
|
5,146,700
|
5,640,200
|
|||||
Multi-dwelling
(bulk) and commercial unit customers (c)
|
268,700
|
273,700
|
|||||
Total
analog video customers (b)(c)
|
5,415,400
|
5,913,900
|
|||||
Digital
Video:
|
|||||||
Digital
video customers (d)
|
2,862,900
|
2,866,400
|
|||||
Non-Video
Cable Services:
|
|||||||
Residential
high-speed Internet customers (e)
|
2,525,900
|
2,322,400
|
|||||
Residential
telephone customers (f)
|
572,600
|
191,100
|
(a)
|
"Customers"
include all persons our corporate billing records show as receiving
service (regardless of their payment status), except for complimentary
accounts (such as our employees). At March 31, 2007 and 2006, "customers"
include approximately 31,700 and 48,500 persons whose accounts were
over
60 days past due in payment, approximately 4,100 and 11,900 persons
whose
accounts were over 90 days past due in payment, and approximately
2,000
and 7,800 of which were over 120 days past due in payment, respectively.
|
(b)
|
"Analog
video customers" include all customers who receive video
services.
|
(c)
|
Included
within "video customers" are those in commercial and multi-dwelling
structures, which are calculated on an equivalent bulk unit ("EBU")
basis.
EBU is calculated for a system by dividing the bulk price charged
to
accounts in an area by the most prevalent price charged to non-bulk
residential customers in that market for the comparable tier of service.
The EBU method of estimating analog video customers is consistent
with the
methodology used in determining costs paid to programmers and has
been
used consistently.
|
(d)
|
"Digital
video customers" include all households that have one or more digital
set-top boxes or cable cards deployed.
|
(e)
|
"Residential
high-speed Internet customers" represent those residential customers
who
subscribe to our high-speed Internet service.
|
(f)
|
"Residential
telephone customers" include all residential customers receiving
telephone
service.
|
Three
Months Ended March 31,
|
|||||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||||||||
Revenues
|
$
|
1,425
|
100
|
%
|
$
|
1,320
|
100
|
%
|
|||||
Costs
and expenses:
|
|||||||||||||
Operating
(excluding depreciation and amortization)
|
631
|
44
|
%
|
604
|
46
|
%
|
|||||||
Selling,
general and administrative
|
303
|
21
|
%
|
272
|
21
|
%
|
|||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
331
|
24
|
%
|
350
|
26
|
%
|
|||||||
Asset
impairment charges
|
--
|
--
|
99
|
8
|
%
|
||||||||
Other
operating expenses, net
|
4
|
--
|
3
|
--
|
|||||||||
1,269
|
89
|
%
|
1,328
|
101
|
%
|
||||||||
Operating
income (loss) from continuing operations
|
156
|
11
|
%
|
(8
|
)
|
(1
|
)%
|
||||||
Interest
expense, net
|
(464
|
)
|
(468
|
)
|
|||||||||
Other
income (expense), net
|
(4
|
)
|
11
|
||||||||||
(468
|
)
|
(457
|
)
|
||||||||||
Loss
from continuing operations before income taxes
|
(312
|
)
|
(465
|
)
|
|||||||||
Income
tax expense
|
(69
|
)
|
(8
|
)
|
|||||||||
Loss
from continuing operations
|
(381
|
)
|
(473
|
)
|
|||||||||
Income
from discontinued operations, net of tax
|
--
|
14
|
|||||||||||
Net
loss
|
$
|
(381
|
)
|
$
|
(459
|
)
|
|||||||
Loss
per common share:
|
|||||||||||||
Loss
from continuing operations, basic and diluted
|
$
|
(1.04
|
)
|
$
|
(1.49
|
)
|
|||||||
Net
loss, basic and diluted
|
$
|
(1.04
|
)
|
$
|
(1.45
|
)
|
|||||||
Weighted
average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted
|
366,120,096
|
317,413,472
|
Three
Months Ended March 31,
|
|||||||||||||||||||
2007
|
2006
|
2007
over 2006
|
|||||||||||||||||
Revenues
|
%
of
Revenues
|
Revenues
|
%
of
Revenues
|
Change
|
%
Change
|
||||||||||||||
Video
|
$
|
838
|
59
|
%
|
$
|
831
|
63
|
%
|
$
|
7
|
1
|
%
|
|||||||
High-speed
Internet
|
296
|
21
|
%
|
245
|
19
|
%
|
51
|
21
|
%
|
||||||||||
Telephone
|
63
|
4
|
%
|
20
|
1
|
%
|
43
|
215
|
%
|
||||||||||
Advertising
sales
|
63
|
4
|
%
|
68
|
5
|
%
|
(5
|
)
|
(7
|
%)
|
|||||||||
Commercial
|
81
|
6
|
%
|
73
|
6
|
%
|
8
|
11
|
%
|
||||||||||
Other
|
84
|
6
|
%
|
83
|
6
|
%
|
1
|
1
|
%
|
||||||||||
$
|
1,425
|
100
|
%
|
$
|
1,320
|
100
|
%
|
$
|
105
|
8
|
%
|
|
2007
compared to 2006
Increase
/ (Decrease)
|
|||
Rate
adjustments and incremental video services
|
$
|
23
|
||
Increase
in digital video customers
|
16
|
|||
Decrease
in analog video customers
|
(10
|
)
|
||
System
sales
|
(22
|
)
|
||
|
||||
$
|
7
|
|
2007
compared to 2006
Increase
/ (Decrease)
|
|||
Increase
in high-speed Internet customers
|
$
|
37
|
||
Price
increases
|
18
|
|||
System
sales
|
(4
|
)
|
||
|
||||
$
|
51
|
|
2007
compared to 2006
Increase
/ (Decrease)
|
|||
Programming
costs
|
$
|
28
|
||
Costs
of providing high-speed Internet and telephone services
|
9
|
|||
Maintenance
costs
|
4
|
|||
Advertising
sales costs
|
2
|
|||
Other,
net
|
1
|
|||
System
sales
|
(18
|
)
|
||
|
||||
$
|
26
|
|
2007
compared to 2006
Increase
/ (Decrease)
|
|||
Customer
care costs
|
$
|
18
|
||
Marketing
costs
|
18
|
|||
Employee
costs
|
7
|
|||
Professional
service costs
|
(8
|
)
|
||
Other,
net
|
1
|
|||
System
sales
|
(5
|
)
|
||
|
||||
$
|
31
|
|
2007
compared to 2006
|
|||
Increase
in losses on sales of assets
|
$
|
3
|
||
Decrease
in special charges, net
|
(2
|
)
|
||
|
||||
$
|
1
|
|
2007
compared to 2006
|
|||
Decrease
in gain on derivative instruments and
hedging
activities, net
|
$
|
(9
|
)
|
|
Increase
in loss on extinguishment of debt
|
(1
|
)
|
||
Decrease
in minority interest
|
(2
|
)
|
||
Decrease
in loss on investments
|
1
|
|||
Other,
net
|
(4
|
)
|
||
|
||||
$
|
(15
|
)
|
•
|
issuing
equity that would significantly dilute existing shareholders;
|
|
•
|
issuing
convertible debt or some other securities that may have structural
or
other priority over our existing notes and may also, in the case
of
convertible debt, significantly dilute Charter’s existing shareholders;
|
|
•
|
further
reducing our expenses and capital expenditures, which may impair
our
ability to increase revenue and grow operating cash flows;
|
|
•
|
selling
assets; or
|
|
•
|
requesting
waivers or amendments with respect to our credit facilities, which
may not
be available on acceptable terms; and cannot be assured.
|
Three
Months Ended
March
31,
|
|||||||
2007
|
2006
|
||||||
Customer
premise equipment (a)
|
$
|
161
|
$
|
130
|
|||
Scalable
infrastructure (b)
|
49
|
34
|
|||||
Line
extensions (c)
|
24
|
26
|
|||||
Upgrade/Rebuild
(d)
|
12
|
9
|
|||||
Support
capital (e)
|
52
|
42
|
|||||
Total
capital expenditures
|
$
|
298
|
$
|
241
|
(a)
|
Customer
premise equipment includes costs incurred at the customer residence
to
secure new customers, revenue units and additional bandwidth revenues.
It
also includes customer installation costs in accordance with SFAS
No. 51,
Financial
Reporting by Cable Television Companies, and
customer premise equipment (e.g., set-top terminals and cable modems,
etc.).
|
(b)
|
Scalable
infrastructure includes costs, not related to customer premise equipment
or our network, to secure growth of new customers, revenue units
and
additional bandwidth revenues or provide service enhancements (e.g.,
headend equipment).
|
(c)
|
Line
extensions include network costs associated with entering new service
areas (e.g., fiber/coaxial cable, amplifiers, electronic equipment,
make-ready and design engineering).
|
(d)
|
Upgrade/rebuild
includes costs to modify or replace existing fiber/coaxial cable
networks,
including betterments.
|
(e)
|
Support
capital includes costs associated with the replacement or enhancement
of
non-network assets due to technological and physical obsolescence
(e.g.,
non-network equipment, land, buildings and
vehicles).
|
2007
|
2008
|
2009
|
2010
|
2011
|
2012
|
Thereafter
|
Total
|
Fair
Value at March 31, 2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debt:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed
Rate
|
$ |
105
|
$ |
--
|
$ |
827
|
$ |
2,251
|
$ |
303
|
$ |
1,191
|
$ |
8,342
|
$ |
13,019
|
$ |
13,435
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Average Interest Rate
|
8.25%
|
--
|
7.67%
|
10.26%
|
11.21%
|
8.32%
|
10.70%
|
10.21%
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Variable
Rate
|
$
|
--
|
|
$
|
55
|
|
$
|
55
|
|
$
|
605
|
|
$
|
55
|
$
|
55
|
|
$
|
5,335
|
|
$
|
6,160
|
|
$
|
6,063
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Average Interest Rate
|
|
--
|
|
|
6.83%
|
|
|
6.82%
|
|
|
8.95%
|
|
|
7.10%
|
|
7.20%
|
|
|
7.21%
|
|
|
7.37%
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
Rate Instruments:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Variable
to Fixed Swaps
|
$
|
675
|
|
$
|
--
|
|
$
|
--
|
|
$
|
500
|
|
$
|
300
|
$
|
1,000
|
|
$
|
1,000
|
|
$
|
3,475
|
|
$
|
(4)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Average Pay Rate
|
|
6.97%
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
6.81%
|
|
|
6.98%
|
|
6.89%
|
|
|
6.94%
|
|
|
6.92%
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Average Receive Rate
|
|
7.31%
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
6.99%
|
|
|
7.02%
|
|
7.17%
|
|
|
7.25%
|
|
|
7.18%
|
|
|
|
·
|
require
us to dedicate a significant portion of our cash flow from operating
activities to make payments on our debt, which will reduce our
funds
available for working capital, capital expenditures and other general
corporate expenses;
|
·
|
limit
our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our
business,
the cable and telecommunications industries and the economy at
large;
|
·
|
place
us at a disadvantage as compared to our competitors that have
proportionately less debt;
|
·
|
make
us vulnerable to interest rate increases, because approximately
15% of our
borrowings are, and will continue to be, at variable rates of
interest;
|
·
|
expose
us to increased interest expense as we refinance existing lower
interest
rate instruments;
|
·
|
adversely
affect our relationship with customers and
suppliers;
|
·
|
limit
our ability to borrow additional funds in the future, due to applicable
financial and restrictive covenants in our
debt;
|
·
|
make
it more difficult for us to satisfy our obligations to the holders
of our
notes and for our subsidiaries to satisfy their obligations to
their
lenders under their credit facilities and to their noteholders;
and
|
·
|
limit
future increases in the value, or cause a decline in the value
of our
equity, which could limit our ability to raise additional capital
by
issuing equity.
|
· |
competition
from other distributors, including incumbent telephone companies,
direct
broadcast satellite operators, wireless broadband providers and DSL
providers;
|
· |
unforeseen
difficulties we may encounter in our continued introduction of our
telephone services such as our ability to meet heightened customer
expectations for the reliability of voice services compared to other
services we provide, and our ability to meet heightened demand for
installations and customer service;
|
· |
our
ability to sustain and grow revenues by offering video, high-speed
Internet, telephone and other services, and to maintain and grow
a stable
customer base, particularly in the face of increasingly aggressive
competition from other service
providers;
|
· |
our
ability to obtain programming at reasonable prices or to pass programming
cost increases on to our customers;
|
· |
general
business conditions, economic uncertainty or slowdown;
and
|
· |
the
effects of governmental regulation, including but not limited to
local
franchise authorities, on our
business.
|
· |
the
sum of its debts, including contingent liabilities, was greater than
the
fair saleable value of all its
assets;
|
· |
the
present fair saleable value of its assets was less than the amount
that
would be required to pay its probable liability on its existing debts,
including contingent liabilities, as they became absolute and mature;
or
|
· |
it
could not pay its debts as they became
due.
|
·
|
the
lenders under Charter Operating’s credit facilities whose interests are
secured by substantially all of our operating assets, will have the
right
to be paid in full before us from any of our subsidiaries’ assets;
and
|
·
|
the
holders of preferred membership interests in our subsidiary, CC VIII,
would have a claim on a portion of its assets that may reduce the
amounts
available for repayment to holders of our outstanding notes.
|
Dated:
May 3, 2007
|
By:
/s/
Kevin D. Howard
|
|
Name:
|
Kevin
D. Howard
|
|
Title:
|
Vice
President and
|
|
Chief
Accounting Officer
|
Exhibit
Number
|
Description
of Document
|
|
3.1(a)
|
Restated
Certificate of Incorporation of Charter Communications, Inc. (Originally
incorporated July 22, 1999) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
3.1 to
Amendment No. 3 to the registration statement on Form S-1 of Charter
Communications, Inc. filed on October 18, 1999 (File No.
333-83887)).
|
|
3.1(b)
|
Certificate
of Amendment of Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Charter
Communications, Inc. filed May 10, 2001 (incorporated by reference
to
Exhibit 3.1(b) to the annual report on Form 10-K filed by Charter
Communications, Inc. on March 29, 2002 (File No.
000-27927)).
|
|
3.2
|
Amended
and Restated By-laws of Charter Communications, Inc. as of October
30,
2006 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the quarterly report
on
Form 10-Q of Charter Communications, Inc. filed on October 31, 2006
(File
No. 000-27927)).
|
|
10.1
|
Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 6, 2007, among Charter
Communications Operating, LLC, CCO Holdings, LLC, the lenders from
time to time parties thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as
administrative agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to
the
current report on Form 8-K of Charter Communications, Inc. filed
on March
9, 2007 (File No. 000-27927)).
|
|
10.2
|
Amended
and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement made by CCO Holdings,
LLC,
Charter Communications Operating, LLC and certain of its subsidiaries
in
favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. ,as administrative agent, dated
as of
March 18, 1999, as amended and restated as of March 6,
2007 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the current report
on Form 8-K of Charter Communications, Inc. filed on March 9, 2007
(File
No. 000-27927)).
|
|
10.3
|
Credit
Agreement, dated as of March 6, 2007, among CCO Holdings, LLC, the
lenders
from time to time parties thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as
administrative agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to
the
current report on Form 8-K of Charter Communications, Inc. filed
on March
9, 2007 (File No. 000-27927)).
|
|
10.4
|
Pledge
Agreement made by CCO Holdings, LLC in favor of Bank of America,
N.A., as
Collateral Agent, dated as of March 6, 2007 (incorporated by reference
to
Exhibit 10.4 to the current report on Form 8-K of Charter Communications,
Inc. filed on March 9, 2007 (File No. 000-27927)).
|
|
10.5
|
Separation
Agreement and Release for Sue Ann R. Hamilton (incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 99.1 to the current report on Form 8-K of Charter
Communications, Inc. filed on March 14, 2007 (File No. 000-27927)).
|
|
12.1* | Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges. | |
31.1*
|
Certificate
of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/Rule 15d-14(a)
under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
|
|
31.2*
|
Certificate
of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/Rule 15d-14(a)
under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
|
|
32.1*
|
Certification
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section
906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Chief Executive
Officer).
|
|
32.2*
|
Certification
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section
906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Chief Financial
Officer).
|