RCN Corporation
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| Private | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1993 (as Residential Communications Network) |
| Headquarters | Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Key people
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Jim Holanda, CEO |
| Services | High Speed Internet Digital Television Digital Telephone |
| Revenue | $636 Million |
| Owner | ABRY Partners |
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Number of employees
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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 covered offered coverage to approximately 3.8 million people, making it the 10th 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.
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