RCN (company)

RCN Corporation

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Type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1993; 24 years ago (1993) (as Residential Communications Network)
Headquarters	Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Key people	Jim Holanda, CEO
Services	High Speed Internet Digital Television Digital Telephone
Revenue	$636 Million
Owner	ABRY Partners
Number of employees	1,315
Website	RCN.com

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 telephone, cable television, and internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network as well as dialup and DSL Internet service to consumers in the Boston, New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Chicago areas.

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.

RCN serves in or around the following locations: Allentown, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois (limited coverage); Washington, D.C.; New York City, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

RCN (Residential Communications Network) was originally created in 1993 by developer David McCourt and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. Kiewit also owned MFS, a Competitive Access Provider (CAP). In a series of moves, RCN purchased C-TEC, the parent of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Telephone, while MFS spun off its small residential telephone operations to RCN. MFS was later purchased by Worldcom. RCN/C-TEC became a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) when the Telecom Act of 1996 passed.