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Digital TV Service KABEL!VISION now available in Chemnitz

Over 38,000 Households can enjoy the benefits of the new service/ Customer only pays for the channels they like to watch

Mainz, 7th July 2004 – KABEL!VISION, the new digital TV offering from PrimaCom will be available in 38,000 households in the city of Chemnitz. As of July 15th 2004, PrimaCom customers in Chemitz will be able to customize their own individual digital TV subscription from a choice of 22 channels.

Kabel!Vision combines German language Channels, a broad selection of foreign language programming, an adult channel, as well as, Pay per View movie channels. In addition, the consumer can enjoy the publicly available Digital TV Channels. The consumer only pays for the channels they like to watch, maximizing their enjoyment at minimum cost and it enables the consumer to individualize their programming package.

Well established channels such as 13th street, Kinowelt TV, SciFi, Motors TV, the movie channel Silverline, and Starblitz, a German folk music channel, are all part of the German programming package. Consumers who only wish to receive Pay per View Movies or Pay per View adult entertainment are not forced to subscribe to the basic package. The consumer only pays for the channels they would like to view. Pay per View Movies are easily ordered via telephone. Video Text pages provide the consumer a well-known and easy to use method for viewing film and ordering information.

Foreign citizens living in can finally receive their native channels foreign language channels available in Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Italian and

Spanish via their cable connection. Expensive installations of satellite dishes are now a thing of the past, in addition the lack of satellite dishes also assist the housing associations in maintaining the value of their properties.

PrimaCom sets standards in the encrypting methods of the TV Programs in order to protect minors from adult content. Kabel!Vision’s decoder software requires two separate PIN Codes to access protected content. TV pirates do not have a chance, because the broadcast signals are encrypted in Cryptoworks and can only be deciphered by the consumer’s decoder. A high quality modern decoder can be ordered directly from the KABEL!VISION hotline, 01803 – 77 46 22 66* (*0,09 Euro/Minute.)

Further information can be found at www.kabelvision.de

Contact: Thomas Chojnacki EMail: [email protected] HomePage: www.primacom.de

About Primacom: PrimaCom (www.primacom.de) is a significant private cable network operator with over five per cent market share in Germany and the Netherlands. PrimaCom offers a wide range of analog, digital and interactive broadband services. PrimaCom is Germany's most experienced Digital-TV cable operator. Customers, connected to the upgraded 862 MHz networks, have access to more

than 100 TV and radio programs, to interactive Video on Demand, and to high speed Internet. PrimaCom currently passes 2m homes and serves 1.3m subscribers, 1.0m in Germany and 300,000 in The Netherlands. PrimaCom shares are traded at the Frankfurter Börse (ISIN: DE0006259104, Xetra Symbol: "PRC.ETR") and PrimaCom ADRs (2 ADRs equal 1 share) are traded in the USA at the OTC BB Market (Symbol: "PCAGY").