HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KENTUCKY, November 12, 2001— General Cable Corporation (NYSE: BGC) announces the introduction of the new GenSPEED cable product offering. The first product in this line of small pair cable is GenSPEED 6000, a Category 6 cable which incorporates all of the familiar features of General Cable’s Category cables that meet and exceed TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1. With its unique filler design, GenSPEED 6000 is easy to install and offers all the performance needed for tomorrow’s technology. GenSpeed 6000 is small in diameter compared to other Category 6 designs, which translates into increased conduit and tray fill cable capacities, allowing more cables to be installed. This addition to our already full line of enhanced Category cable products is also available with our TRU-MARK™ footage marking system.

General Cable’s line of Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cables provides the industry with some of the highest performing products on the market. The driving demand to migrate high profile networks to Gigabit Ethernet has prompted the requirement for top performing enhanced UTP cable designed to support full and half-duplex operations. General Cable’s premium Category 5e and enhanced Category 6 cable products are designed to operate within 10Base-T through 1000Base-T protocol as well as exceed TIA/EIA-568-B.2 and 568-B.2-1 Standards. All Category cables ensure added headroom for Error-Free operation and are third party verified proving transmission results that increase bandwidth and excellent return loss. With multiple media and technologies to choose from, General Cable engineers a high-performance and cost-effective product line for today’s Gigabit Ethernet technology and beyond, supporting transmission speeds in excess of 1 Gb/s.

General Cable (NYSE: BGC), headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the communications, energy and specialty markets. The Company offers competitive strengths in such areas as breadth of product line, brand recognition, distribution and logistics, sales and service and operating efficiency. Communications wire and cable products transmit low-voltage signals for voice, data, video and control applications. Energy cables include low-, medium- and high-voltage power distribution and power transmission products. The Specialty segment is comprised of application-specific cables for uses such as electrical power generation (traditional fuels, alternative and renewable sources, and distributed generation), the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, mining, industrial automation, automotive, marine, military and aerospace applications, power applications in the telecommunications industry, and other key industrial segments. Visit our website at www.GeneralCable.com.www.generalcable.com.

Release No. 0364
11/12/01