Cable One Announces Private Offering of $500 Million of Senior Notes - Seite 2

• the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on its business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows;
• rising levels of competition from historical and new entrants in its markets;
• recent and future changes in technology;
• its ability to continue to grow its business services products;
• increases in programming costs and retransmission fees;
• its ability to obtain hardware, software and operational support from vendors;
• the effects of any acquisitions and strategic investments by the Company;
• risks relating to the Company’s initial minority ownership position in Mega Broadband Investments Holdings LLC (“MBI”), including its ability to appoint only a minority of members of the board of managers of MBI, the fact that the managers of MBI will not owe the same fiduciary duties to the Company that directors of a corporation would owe to stockholders, and the limited category of transactions for which the Company’s consent will be needed under MBI’s operating agreement;
• uncertainties related to the exercise of the call option or the put option in the MBI investment, including the Company’s ability to finance the purchase of the remaining membership interests in MBI on terms acceptable to the Company or at all;
• risks that its rebranding may not produce the benefits expected;
• damage to its reputation or brand image;
• risks that the implementation of its new enterprise resource planning system disrupts business operations;
• adverse economic conditions;
• the integrity and security of its network and information systems;
• the impact of possible security breaches and other disruptions, including cyber-attacks;
• its failure to obtain necessary intellectual and proprietary rights to operate its business and the risk of intellectual property claims and litigation against the Company;
• its ability to retain key employees (who the Company refers to as associates);
• legislative or regulatory efforts to impose network neutrality and other new requirements on its data services;
• additional regulation of its video and voice services;
• its ability to renew cable system franchises;
• increases in pole attachment costs;
• changes in local governmental franchising authority and broadcast carriage regulations;
• the potential adverse effect of its level of indebtedness on its business, financial condition or results of operations and cash flows;
• the restrictions the terms of its indebtedness place on its business and corporate actions;
• the possibility that interest rates will rise, causing its obligations to service its variable rate indebtedness to increase significantly;
• its ability to incur future indebtedness; and
• the other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including but not limited to its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and the 2020 Form 10-Qs.

Any forward-looking statements made by the Company in this communication speak only as of the date on which they are made. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation, except as required by law, to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or otherwise. The Company may not consummate the Offering described in this press release and, if the Offering is consummated, cannot provide any assurances regarding the final terms of the Offering or its ability to effectively apply the net proceeds as described above.