Cox Business announced today that customers in the company’s Orange County, Calif. and Rhode Island cable markets will be eligible for a national contest for women business owners. The Digital Growth Contest winners will receive free Cox Business services for one year and other prizes designed to help boost additional business growth for the winners.

The contest begins today – one week before National Business Women’s Week – and continues through Thursday, Nov. 13. Winners will be announced in December. “Cox Business has a strong tradition of local philanthropy and positive relationships with women- and minority-owned businesses,” said Kristine Faulkner, vice president of product development and management for Cox Business. “Through the Digital Growth Contest, Cox Business is providing a communications technology grant that will help propel women business leaders to a higher level of operation.”