RCN Connects Cable TV, Internet & Telephone Customers in D.C. Area to 'Something More'

RCN Connects Cable TV, Internet & Telephone Customers in D.C. Area to 'Something More'

New Name, New Brand & Nationals Baseball For 'Starpower'

HERNDON, Va., May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ:RCNI), a leading provider of total communications service, today announced that the name of its Washington D.C. Metro Area subsidiary is changing from Starpower to RCN-DC. The Company will make the transition to its new name, logo and brand motto, "Connect to Something More," over the next few months.

"Whether its being the first local cable company to carry the Nationals baseball games, or the first company to provide bundled Cable TV, Internet and Telephone broadband service, RCN connects our customers to something more," said VP and General Manager Richard Wadman. "This 'something more' is rooted in RCN's continued commitment to delivering the highest quality service in the industry."

Wadman said that Starpower had been a joint venture between Pepco Communications, L.L.C., a wholly owned but separate affiliate of Pepco Holdings, Inc., and RCN Corporation. In December 2004, RCN acquired Pepco's remaining 50 percent ownership. As a result of purchasing Starpower, RCN opened a Southern corporate office in Virginia where many executives will be located. This now gives the new RCN four corporate locations: Herndon, VA, Princeton, NJ, and Wilkes-Barre and Lehigh Valley, PA.

"Our customers have already begun to see our new company colors and logo in their recent monthly invoices and invoice stuffers," Wadman said. "And, they'll see it in local television announcements and direct mailers received at their homes."

About RCN Corporation

RCN Corporation, http://www.rcn.com/, is one of the largest facilities- based competitive providers 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 provides service in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets.

RCN Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events and future performance of RCN that involve risks and uncertainties that could materially affect actual results. This information is qualified in its entirety by cautionary statements and risk factors disclosure contained in certain of RCN's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. For a description of certain factors that could cause actual results to vary from current expectations and forward-looking statements contained in this press release, refer to documents that RCN files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. RCN disclaims any obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements contained herein.

Source: RCN Corporation

CONTACT: Richard Ramlall, SVP of Strategic and External Affairs of RCN
Corporation, +1-703-434-8430, or Michael Houghton, Communicreate,
+1-703-799-7383

Web site: http://www.rcn.com/

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