RCN Preps DOCSIS 3.0 LaunchesNew York, Lehigh Valley, Boston 04:42PM Wednesday Nov 04 2009 by Karl Bodetags: business · bandwidth · cable · RCN CABLESpeaking to reporters and analysts during the company's 3rd quarter earnings conference call, cable overbuilder RCN has announced that they're taking their DOCSIS 3.0 plans out of neutral very, very soon. According to the company, residential customers in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Boston and New York should see faster speeds before the end of the year. The company says the "majority" of their remaining footprint will see the faster speeds in 2010. There's no word on residential pricing yet. As their press release attests, RCN is going to make small business customers their primary marketing focus at first.
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 | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | wow I thought RCN was too poor to ever do any capital investments again into residential telecommunications. | |
| tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | possible incentives? Now that we know that Verizon won't lift a finger to help Boston, RCN could step up to the plate with some nice incentives to roll out docsis 3 beyond their current Boston footprint (no doubt they don't cover the WHOLE city, yet). | |
| puck0114
join:2005-12-24
Washington, DC | DC We need some love here, too, RCN.  | |
|  | mlabate
join:2007-09-03
Bangor, PA | Re: DC This is awesome, but they can't saturate the current 20/2 packages (go to RCN's forum on this site and see people complaining) so I would want to see how they plan on making this work first. | |
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Van
Premium
join:2009-07-08
Washington, DC | Couldn't agree more
Would love to see RCN pushing FiOS as many areas around DC still are struggling to get any sort of top-end speed | |
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