Article: Overbuilders Version 2.0.(Knology Corp., RCN Corp. and WideOpenWest L.L.C.)

by Mike Farrell

After Boom, Bust And Bankruptcy, Healthy Trio of Triple-Play Competitors Emerge

For years, cable companies with the audacity to compete against their MSO brethren were given a bad name in the industry: overbuilders.

Facing increasingly larger incumbents, many were left for dead after financing dried up for alternative providers in the earlier part of the decade. But three companies -- publicly traded RCN and Knology and the privately held WideOpenWest -- have not merely survived but thrived, reporting growth rates that rival and in some cases surpass the incumbent operators over the past five years.

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