China Cable & Communication to Provide IP Telephony Services in China Through 49% Owned Network IP Telephony to be offered initially to area covering 2.1 million Chinese households BEIJING, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Cable and Communication, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: CCCI) , a leading China-based cable TV company, today announced that its 49%-owned Baoding Network 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. China Cable and Communication, Inc. currently operates a cable television system in Baoding City, through its 49% interest in Baoding Pascali Cable Television Network, which has more than 200,000 subscribers. The terms of the joint venture agreement require confidentiality as to the identity of China Cable and Communication's joint venture partner until June 1, 2004, at which time, IP Telephony Services will be formally marketed to customers. At the present time, required upgrades to the Baoding Pascali Cable Television Network as well as upgrades to the joint venture partner's system are being undertaken, and a group of users are currently testing the Company's IP Telephony services. The upgrades are scheduled for completion by July 31, 2004 in order to commence providing the IP Telephony Services. IP Telephony, or Voice-over-IP, provides for the transport of telephone calls over the Internet, regardless of whether traditional telephony devices, multimedia PCs or dedicated terminals take part in the calls, and regardless of whether the calls are entirely or only partially transmitted over the Internet. The greatest factor in the growth of IP Telephony services worldwide is the significant cost savings in transporting phone calls over the Internet, instead of transporting the calls over the traditional telephone system infrastructure. Gareth Tang, President of China Cable and Communication, stated, "China Cable & Communication, Inc. is delighted to be at the forefront of providing IP Telephony in China as part of furthering our commitment to providing our customers with full service solutions. Offering a complete suite of IP Telephony services will be a compelling addition to the services that we currently provide to customers of our Baoding Pascali Cable Television Network. Furthermore, we look forward to offering the availability of these new services to the approximately 2.1 million households in the Baoding area, which we believe will also help us to expand our customer base and increase the number of cable television subscribers." 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 well positioned 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 witha 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 FriedlandCapital Inc. Tel. 1-201-420-7437. (Friedland Capital Inc. is the US Corporate Finance Advisor to China Cable & 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. 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 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 and 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, for China Cable and Communication Web site: http://www.chinacable.us/

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