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RCN Corporation, originally Residential Communications Network, founded in 1993 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, is the first American facilities-based competitive ("overbuild") provider of bundled telephone, cable television, and internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network as well as competitive dialup and DSL internet service to consumers in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Chicago areas. , RCN claimed over 424,000 domestic customers and 130 cable franchises. RCN's network covered offered coverage to approximately 3.8 million people making it 10th largest provider of cable broadband in the U.S.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RCN Overview and Coverage )〕 RCN serves in or around the following locations: Allentown, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; New York City, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rcn.com/about-rcn/where-we-service )〕 == History == RCN (Residential Communications Network) was originally created in 1993 by developer David McCourt and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc., the Omaha construction giant. Kiewit also owned MFS, a pioneering Competitive Access Provider (CAP). In a series of moves, RCN purchased C-TEC, the parent of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Telephone (Commonwealth was spun out several years later), 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. RCN then began its growth as a cable TV ;overbuilder, constructing competitor cable systems in markets that already had cable service. Most of its systems were partnerships with power companies, which provided rights-of-way on poles. RCN featured "triple play" television/internet/telephone service, though for some time its voice operations were largely resold incumbent telephone company lines. It purchased existing US East-Coast ISPs Erol's Internet, UltraNet Communications, Interport, and JavaNet. On the West Coast, it purchased existing ISPs DNAI and Brainstorm. In Chicago, it bought into the market by acquiring overbuilder 21st Century Telecom. In Washington, D.C., they formed a 50/50 joint venture with local power company Pepco named ''StarPower Communications'' in 1999; they bought out Pepco's stake in 2004, and rebranded StarPower systems to the RCN name. In early February 2009, RCN converted to an all-digital network. With the transition, the company is able to use the entire spectrum for digital and high-definition television broadcasting, reducing the need to compress signals, and offering more channels with higher-quality video service. ABRY Partners, a private equity firm, acquired local Internet and cable-service provider RCN Corporation for $1.2 billion in 2010.〔http://www.abry.com/home/news/10-08-26/ABRY_Partners_Completes_Acquisition_of_RCN_Corporation.aspx 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RCN Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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