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RCN Corporation

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RCN Business Services to Offer Wideband Cable Modem Options to Small, Medium Sized Businesses Over Its Own Fiber-Rich Backbone [Press Release]
MarketWire | 21 days 3 hours 51 minutes ago
HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/02/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) announced today that


RCN Offers Free Preview of Two Spanish-Language Networks: CNN en Espa ol and Fox Sports en Espa ol [Press Release]
MarketWire | 26 days 5 hours 51 minutes ago
HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/28/09 --


RCN Launches Three New Greek Cable TV Channels: MEGA Cosmos, ALTER Globe & STAR International [Press Release]
MarketWire | 39 days 5 hours 13 minutes ago
HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/15/09 --


RCN's Senior VP Richard Ramlall Recognized as CableFAX: The Magazine's 2009 Top 100 Most Influential Minorities in Cable [Press Release]
MarketWire | 25 days 4 hours 7 minutes ago
HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/29/09 --


MYX(R) Announces Agreement With Comcast [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 56 days 7 hours 11 minutes ago
...Digital Basic Cable, DIRECTV 2067 and RCN. For more information, visit http://myx.tv Comcast Corporation ( www.comcast.com) is one of the... CONTACT: Bryan Byrd of Comcast Corporation, +1-916-515-2821,bryan...


J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Improvements in Performance and Reliability Drive Increase in Overall Customer Satisfaction With Residential Internet Service Providers [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 26 days 4 hours 43 minutes ago
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Overall customer satisfaction with residential high-speed Internet service providers has increased from 2008, primarily due to improvements in performance and reliability, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Internet Service Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction Study(SM) released today.


J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Overall Satisfaction With Television Service Providers Rebounds Due to Improvements in Product Performance and Customer Service [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 47 days 9 hours 39 minutes ago
...Region Major Provider Average 635 3 Time Warner Cable 622 3 RCN 602 2 Comcast 597 2 Charter 566 2 North Central Region (Based...Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2008 were...





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Company Overview


Company: RCN Corporation
Industry: Cable & Satellite Services
Website: http://www.rcn.com

You could say that RCN is at home in the big city. The company operates cable-based broadband networks that serve the Boston, Chicago, and New York City areas, as well as eastern Pennsylvania and Washington, DC. A facilities-based competitive carrier (its fiber network spans 7,000 miles), it offers cable TV, Internet, local and long-distance phone, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to more than 420,000 residential and small business customers. In addition to providing basic and digital cable TV services, RCN offers video on demand (VOD) and HDTV. The company also provides wholesale data transport services to large enterprises and communications carriers through its RCN Metro division.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 739.2 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales 16.2 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) -70.7 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 (2008)
Number of Employees 1,500 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees -6.3 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December