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CLAIM #14302 · Charter Communications Inc (CHTR) · 2024Q4 earnings call · Jan 31, 2025 · due Dec 31, 2025

In sales and marketing, as you point out, there, I think, there's a little more growth, maybe low- to mid-single-digits, given what we're doing to drive cost and grow customers and to rollout or continue the rollout of the Life Unlimited brand.

Jessica Fischer · CFO

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you heard Chris sort of talk about with some of the benefits that we see from machine learning and AI and just driving around the customer commitments to have fewer transactions with customers, but also the continuing benefits of our -- of what we've done on the expense side. In that respect, I think, across programming and cost to service customers, I generally expect that we'll be flat to slightly down, acknowledging that we think about programming on a per video customer basis, and that mix does matter there a lot. And so, to the extent that, that mix -- the mix of products that customers take changes as a result of the inclusion of the seamless connectivity app -- or the seamless entertainment apps. I think that one, ultimately will be dependent on results, but that's what we expect. In sales and marketing, as you point out, there, I think, there's a little more growth, maybe low- to mid-single-digits, given what we're doing to drive cost and grow customers and to rollout or continue the rollout of the Life Unlimited brand. And so, that's where I'm sitting on the expense side. And I don't know, Chris, do you want to talk about... Chris Winfrey: Taxes, usually, where Jessica would take, but -- so if we're talking about capital allocation, maybe we tag team this one, but, if needed. Look, if -- we don't know where tax legislation is going to go, but if it was enacted, it is obvious that we'd have potentially a very sizable reduction in our cash taxes versus the outlook that Jessica has been talking about. Whether that's rate or interest deductibility or bonus depreciation, actually, all three of those are really important to an infrastructure builder, and that's what we do is we build the infrastructure here in the US to highway the pipeline for all of these applications and traffic. And so, any of those three

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SEC filings for CHTR · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2024Q4 earnings call.