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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters |  Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Key people | Colleen Abdoulah |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | Cablecasting, Broadband Internet, Phone |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Net income | Unknown |
| Employees | Unknown |
| Website | www.wowway.com |
WOW! (formerly WideOpenWest), is the 12th largest cable provider in the United States.[1]
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The Back Story
During the 1990s, encouraged by work on the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, a number of investors led by local telephone companies established competitive broadcast cable services into various cable TV markets. These entities became known in the industry as 'cable overbuilders',[citation needed] meaning they would build new cable infrastructure into areas where there were existing operating cable systems. By the year 2001 less than 5% of the households in the United States had a choice of cable companies.[citation needed]
Room for expansion
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Founded in November 1999 in Denver, Colorado, WOW! initially served about 200 people in the Denver area after they had completed building their network in April 2001. In May 2001, a midwestern network with the name Americast, was purchased by WOW! for an undisclosed amount per user-connection, estimated to have been at a cost of $1000 per user. This purchase opened WOW! to over 310,000 new users. The Americast cable brand was initially under control of Ameritech and served the markets surrounding the cities of Chicago; Detroit; Denver; Cleveland; and Columbus. Americast has also been the brand name used for GTE's cable systems in Cerritos, California and Pinellas County, Florida, and for BellSouth's cable systems in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Those operations were sold to different owners.
WOW! is no longer servicing the Denver area. WOW! is currently providing service in the metropolitan areas of Detroit, Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, and Evansville.
Awards
- 2007 Residential Cable/Satellite TV Satisfaction Recipient[2]
References
- ^ "Top 25 MSOs - As of March 2007". National Cable & Telecommunications Association. http://www.ncta.com/ContentView.aspx?contentId=73.
- ^ "2007 Residential Cable/Satellite TV Satisfaction Study - North Central". J.D. Power and Associates. http://www.jdpower.com/telecom/ratings/cable-satellite-television-ratings/north-central. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
- "Americast sale to reshape cable service". Business First of Columbus. May 25, 2001.[verification needed]
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