| Glad I got rid of RCN Glad I ditched RCN awhile back. LBOs are interested in money and are never engineering driven or quality driven firms.
Its akin to Carlyle Group buying networks up. RCN shareholders and the LBO make money here. Customers won't get any benefits to them.
My building management wanted me to get a box for service, the people who got the box wound up getting overbilled. Not me, I wound up ditching RCN and was much happier.
With the LBO, the tactics for profit will be more abusive and trickier since LBO's are concerned about profit, not about customer service or quality. They aren't engineering driven based.
Time Warner has a top flight backbone with LEvel 3 and its own time warner linkages. Verizon has the MCI BACKBONE.
RCN owns some small local NORTHEASTERN BASED LINKAGES and doesn't have any quality peering with top TIER 1 networks. Everyone I know who is in 111 8th avenue and other datacenters knows that RCN is Real Crappy Network.
This new LBO just turns RCN into an Atlantic BB grade provider, and it is a downturn, not an upturn for the company.
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