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 ...

Google Fiber may have hit the pause button on plans to bring superfast wired internet to Chicago, but regional cable provider RCN is moving full speed ahead. RCN Telecom Services launched an upgraded ...

“We’re launching our reliable business solutions in CoreSite’s Chicago data center, as we continue to scale solutions to suit the needs in serving our customers,” said Patrick Knorr, CCO and EVP of ...

Some Chicagoans who use the internet provider RCN were reporting an outage Monday afternoon. The company acknowledged on Twitter around 11 a.m. that "a select group of customers, who recently rebooted ...