RCN Launches Service in Two New Markets for ResiLink(SM), Its Unique Bundled Communications Product Residents of Natick, Massachusetts and San Francisco's Mission District Receive Their First Competitive Choice for Telephone, Cable TV and High-Speed Cable
New subscribers can choose from four different ResiLink(SM) bundled pricing plans, which offer various combinations of digital cable television, fully-featured telephone and high-speed Internet services for a flat rate. All RCN cable subscribers receive the Disney Channel as part of their basic service.
RCN is also introducing in both markets its Digital Vision(SM) service, which gives subscribers access to more than 200 channels of high-quality digital cable programming, including 18 channels of premium programming. Digital Vision is a significant feature of RCN's cable offering, allowing customers to receive state-of-the-art digitally-enhanced TV pictures and sound, and a multitude of new video and music programming services.
"We are very pleased to be moving forward with RCN's expansion by offering the residents of Natick, Massachusetts and San Francisco's Mission District a competitive choice in their communications provider," said Jeff White, President of Customer and Field Operations for RCN. "We are confident that the superior value, quality and service RCN offers will make us the clear provider of choice for the residents of both communities."
With the launch of ResiLink in Natick, RCN now offers service in 19 towns and communities in the Boston area, including Arlington, Brookline, Burlington, Dedham, Framingham, Lexington, Needham, Newton, Somerville, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown and Woburn, as well as the Boston communities of Allston, Brighton, Hyde Park, Roslindale, and West Roxbury.
In San Francisco, RCN teamed up with the Boys and Girls Clubs to co-host a community festival on July 14th at the non-profit group's Mission Clubhouse at 901 Alabama Street, celebrating the arrival of telecommunications competition in the City of San Francisco, as well as the many years of community service provided by the Boys and Girls Clubs in the area.
RCN's cable programming in the Mission neighborhood features a diverse and expanded line-up of channels and content, including Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Filipino, Hindi, French and Italian language programming, and other meaningful content of interest to the community's ethnically-diverse residents. Customer service for Mission subscribers is available in over 100 different languages, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
About RCN
RCN Corporation (Nasdaq: RCNC) is the nation's first and largest facilities-based competitive provider of bundled phone, cable and high speed Internet services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN has more than one million customer connections and provides service in the Boston, New York, Philadelphia/Lehigh Valley, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. metropolitan markets.
RCN's Megaband(TM) Network is a unique broadband fiber-optic platform capable of offering a full suite of communications services -- including fully featured voice, video and high-speed Internet -- to residential customers. The network employs SONET ring backbone architecture, and localized nodes built to ensure RCN's state-of-the-art fiber optics travel to within 900 feet of RCN customers, with fewer electronics and lower maintenance costs than existing local networks. RCN's high-capacity local fiber-optic networks target densely populated areas comprising 44% of the US residential communications market spread over just 6% of its geography.
Source: RCN