-- 07/22/09 -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, today announced that it will begin switching its Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania network to all digital Cable TV programming, starting in September.

This digital conversion, which is expected to begin in Allentown and be rolled out on a community by community basis, enables RCN to reclaim existing analog channels, improve the picture quality, make the network easier to maintain, and dramatically increase the number of standard and High Definition (HD) channels it can offer to customers.

"By going all-digital, RCN will be able to enhance the overall customer experience for our customers, increasing our HD channels at launch to more than triple the current offering -- with most being able to receive 100 HD. This total will dramatically exceed what our cable competitors currently offer, making us leaders in delivering HD and customized cable packages in an all-digital world," said RCN President of Residential Markets John Filipowicz. "This initiative, known as Project Analog Crush, frees up bandwidth so we can provide our Lehigh Valley customers with an explosion of entertainment choices and have more expanded Basic Digital TV channels than ever before. This additional bandwidth will also help with future broadband enhancements."

RCN will undertake extensive efforts to educate its customers through notifications and information provided through a variety of different media. RCN will provide at least 30-day notice to its customers, and then repeat notifications during the intervening weeks and days until their service is converted to digital.

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