Update: The outages appeared to have been largely resolved Monday evening. Thousands of Chicagoans who have the internet provider Astound RCN reported an outage Monday afternoon. Stream NBC 5 for free ...

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RCN will expand its footprint in Chicago with the acquisition of local assets of telecommunications provider Wow. RCN’s parent company, New Jersey-based Astound Broadband, is acquiring Wow operations ...

Which do you guys recommend? I dimly recall that Comcast is less obnoxious when it comes to P2P than many other ISPs, and am coming from FiOS. No one seems to be able to match FiOS' speeds, but ...

Herndon-based RCN Corp. has received a contract to outfit Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago for cable and Internet services, the company announced. The firm will outfit the condominiums in ...

Internet services provider RCN and music publisher BMG have agreed to end a dispute over alleged copyright infringement by broadband users, according to court papers filed Wednesday. The court papers ...