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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1993 (as Residential Communications Network) |
| Defunct | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Key people | Jim Holanda, CEO |
| Services | High Speed Internet Digital Television Digital Telephone |
| Revenue | $636 million |
Number of employees | 1,315[1] |
| Parent | Astound Broadband |
| Subsidiaries | Grande Communications Patriot Media Consulting |
| Website | www |
RCN Corporation, originally Residential Communications Network, founded in 1993 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, was the first American facilities-based ("overbuild") provider of bundled cable telephony, cable television, and internet service delivered over its own hybrid fiber-coaxial local network as well as dialup and DSL Internet service to consumers in the Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, the Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. areas.
In the late 1990s RCN bought the internet service providers Erol's for sum $83.5 million, and Ultranet for sum $27 million making RCN the largest northeast regional ISP at the time.[2][3][4]
As of 2006[update], RCN claimed over 424,000 domestic customers and 130 cable franchises. As of 2013[update] RCN's network offered coverage to approximately 3.8 million people, making it the 11th largest provider of cable Internet access in the U.S.[5] Its operations, as well as sister companies Grande Communications, and Wave Broadband are handled under affiliate Patriot Media Consulting.
RCN serves in or around the following locations: Allentown, Boston, Chicago (limited coverage), New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C..[6]
- ^ "Employee Information Report RCN Telecoms LLC" (PDF). RCN Telecom Services LLC. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ^ writer, Staff (January 24, 1998). "RCN Corp. purchases Erol's Internet Inc. Move seen as intensifying competition in Northeast". Tribune Publishing Capital Gazette. Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ writer, Staff (February 24, 1998). "Short Take: RCN completes Erol's Internet acquisition". CNET.com. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ "SALE OF EROL'S SENDS RIVALS A MESSAGE". Washington Post. January 22, 1998. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ "RCN Overview and Coverage". Broadband Now. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
- ^ "Where We Service". RCn Telecoms LLC. Retrieved April 6, 2014.