China Cable & Communication Issues a Letter to Its Shareholders
30 March 2004 - 5:12AM
PR Newswire (US)
China Cable & Communication Issues a Letter to Its Shareholders
Company updates the investment community and its shareholders
BEIJING, March 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Cable and
Communication, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: CCCI) , a leading China-based
cable TV company, today announced it has issued the following
letter to its shareholders. A Letter to our Shareholders From
Gareth Tang, President China Cable and Communication, Inc.
(OTC:CCCI) (BULLETIN BOARD: CCCI) March 29, 2004 Fellow
Shareholders, This is an exciting time to be part of China Cable
and Communication, Inc. I am proud to report that your management
team is executing its business plan in all core areas of our
business. Most importantly we're pursuing our important, ongoing
acquisition activities. China Cable and Communication is
well-positioned to capitalize on the growing market for cable and
telecommunication markets in China. Your entire management team is
dedicated to making China Cable and Communication a success and I
hope that this corporate update will provide all of our
shareholders as well as the investment community with continued
confidence that China Cable is proceeding in executing its business
plans, which we are hopeful will be positively noticed by
investors, shareholders and the financial community. CHINA CABLE
AND COMMUNICATION SNAPSHOT: I. Revenue of the Baoding joint
venture, of which China Cable and Communication owns 49%, is
forecasted by the Baoding joint venture in January 2004 to grow
from $4.64 million in 2003 to $7.78 million in 2004, representing a
68% increase from 2003. This does not take into consideration any
revenues from current and anticipated acquisitions. Effective
January 1, 2004, China Cable and Communication intends to
consolidate the accounts of the Baoding joint venture. This
consolidation is as a result of China Cable's control of the Board
of Directors of the joint venture beginning on January 1, 2004. 1.
Our Baoding joint venture saw an increase in both revenue and net
profits for 2003, which will be reflected in our 10-K which we
anticipate will be filed by mid-April. 2. We recently announced
that our 49%-owned Baoding joint venture has entered into a joint
venture agreement with a major Chinese Telecom company for the
providing of Internet Protocol Telephony Services (IP Telephony) in
Baoding City, which is located approximately 85 miles south of
Beijing. We anticipate starting to generate revenue from this joint
venture in June 2004. 3. I am pleased to report that sales of set
top cable boxes by the Baoding joint venture to customers of the
Baoding Network for the first three months of 2004 are close to
20,000 units, corresponding to over $1 million in revenue. China
Cable and Communication has a 49% interest in the joint venture. As
stated above, China Cable and Communication intends to consolidate
the accounts of the Baoding joint venture and its revenue beginning
as of January 1, 2004. The revenue from sale of the set top cable
boxes has been included in the $7.78 million forecasted revenue for
2004. II. As the only foreign publicly traded company approved by
the central government to own interests in Chinese cable systems,
we remain committed to growing our company through acquisitions. As
part of this aggressive strategy, we are currently exploring an
opportunity to own fiber optic cables between major Chinese cities
and Hong Kong. Senior members of your management team have plans to
visit theUnited States in the very near future. This will enable us
to meet with existing shareholders and most importantly the
investment community. We also look forward to continuing to share
our progress with you, our shareholders and potential investors.
All of your management team has a major stake in the performance of
the Company's shares. We all expect superior market performance
from our company. I want to personally assure all our shareholders
that we believe that we are on a strong path to growth, and we are
committed to delivering ongoing positive results. We are convinced
that 2004 will be a very exciting year for China Cable and
Communication and we are just as convinced that we can count on you
for your continued support. Sincerely, Gareth Tang President About
China Cable and Communication China Cable and Communication, Inc.
is a China-based cable TV company. Through its British Virgin
Island subsidiary, the Company is the first foreign company to own
and operate a cable television network in China. Located 85 miles
south of Beijing, the network currently offers 39 channels within
the Baoding city limits and eight additional channels to outer
areas in the Baoding metropolitan area. It transmits in both analog
and digital over its fiber optic network and through 22
substations. With its fiber optic network, Baoding network is
capable of transmitting 37 analog television programs, six digital
signals and one FM music program. In addition to its cable
television transmission services, Baoding network offers Internet
access and value added services, such as broadband Internet access
and on- demand services through our proprietary set-top boxes.
China Cable and Communication is wellpositioned as a foreign
investor approved by The State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television ("SARFT"), China's national regulatory authority for the
broadcasting industry, to own interests in and provide operational
management support to cable television networks in the People's
Republic of China (PRC). The SARFT approval together with the
trading of CCCI's common stock in the US, provide CCCI with a
favorable advantage in access to foreign capital. China Cable and
Communication, Inc. trades in the United States, under the ticker
symbol CCCI, in order to provide U.S. investors with the
opportunity to invest in a company that own interests in a PRC
cable television network. For more information, please visit
http://www.chinacable.us/. CONTACTS: George Raney Executive
Director of China Cable & Communication, Inc. Tel.
1-310-301-0082 Dara Podber Managing Director of Friedland Capital
Inc. Tel. 1-201-420-7437 (Friedland Capital Inc. is the US
Corporate Finance Advisor to ChinaCable & Communication, Inc.)
The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to
certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking
statements. Some of these include, but are not limited to, our
availability of capital, political occurrences and events in China,
the terms of our 8% convertible preferred stock, operations of the
Boading joint venture, demand for the products of the Boading joint
venture, the economy of China, and other factors. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date
hereof. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise
these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances
that arise after the date thereof. Readers should carefully review
the risks described in other documents the company files from time
to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
Amendment No. 1 to the Form SB-2 registration statement filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 8, 2003, the
Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended October 31,
2002, as well as the Quarterly Reports and Current Reports on Form
8-K by the company. DATASOURCE: China Cable & Communication,
Inc. CONTACT: George Raney, Executive Director of China Cable &
Communication, Inc., +1-310-301-0082; Dara Podber, Managing
Director of Friedland Capital Inc., +1-201-420-7437 Web site:
http://www.chinacable.us/
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