RCN Closing Portal; Tells Customers To Find Britney Spears News Elsewhere

Cable Internet provider RCN has announced that on February 24, 2009, they will close their portal site. After this date the rcn.net site will redirect to their payment and information site. Their email to customers noted, "We’re stepping away from providing a destination for world news and entertainment in order to focus on what you really need to easily manage your RCN account. True, you’ll have to look elsewhere for the latest Britney Spears news, but you’ll be the first to know about new customer offers and promotions and upcoming TV programming events."

It’s interesting that they didn’t offer any options for other portal/start page sites to use. While Internet geeks probably aren’t using the RCN page as their start page, the average RCN customer probably is. They could have worked a deal with one of the new startpage providers or even a larger provider like MyYahoo.